Five record forms allow you to keep track of treatments, garden management, and results. Discusses how to use beneficial insects for controlling garden pests, including how to protect beneficials, create habitat for them, and buy and release them. Includes drawings of common beneficials and a list of garden flowers that attract beneficial insects. This publication shows management strategies that use less of these inputs and how these same practices lead to a healthier, more sustainable landscape. The 23 how-to chapters cover everything from horticulture to insect management.
Gardeners use the large three-ring notebook to add specialized and localized information.
Covers the basics of mixing, applying, storing, and disposing of pesticides. Explains how to fight weeds through competition from healthy crops, tillage, hand weeding, rotation, mulching, and solarization. Discusses herbicides and fumigants for large gardens or especially troublesome problems.