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When good gardens go bad : earth-friendly solutions to common garden problems /
Gardens do not take care of themselves. Poor soil, pests, disease, fungus, and inclement weather can ruin plants and a gardener?s zeal. In When Good Gardens Go Bad, veteran author and pioneer organic gardener Judy Barrett offers safe, practical, and inexpensive advice for handling common garden prob...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series ;
no. 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; 1 The Garden of Eden Is Long Gone, but the Fruit Was Worth It; 2 Brown-Thumb Syndrome; Seven Simple Rules; Failure to Thrive; Location, Location, Location; If You Don't Like the Weather . . .; Timing Is Everything; 3 Without Bugs, We've Got Nothing; What Bugs Do for Us; Important Pest-Control Tools; Products; What's Bugging You?; 4 Invisible Friends and Foes; Fungi; Other Fungal Diseases and Fungicides; Bacteria; Viruses; 5 Plants Run Amok: Dealing with Weeds; What Are Weeds?; Weeds in the Lawn; Weeds in the Beds; Covering the Soil to Discourage Weeds.
- The Scoop on CoffeeA Word about Volunteers; Friendly and Useful Weeds; Despicable Weeds; 6 Compost: Nature's Miracle Cure; Types of Compost; Make Your Own; Mulch: Compost's Companion; 7 The Exuberant Garden; Acknowledgments and Resources; Index.