You'll learn how to improve your soil, optimize it for what you are growing, and tell what's wrong with it my looking for symptoms in your plants. So often, the answer lies in the soil. I highly recommend this book if you want to get the most out of your garden. Beginners will get off to a good start while experienced gardeners will appreciate having so much essential information packed into a single reference. The introduction serves as an organic gardening primer.
Extensive sections provide organic remedies for pest and disease problems.
Includes a section on companion planting. Then you can appreciate the challenges faced by seed savers. Seed to Seed reveals the secrets of pollinating, selecting, harvesting, cleaning and storing seeds. Even if you're not especially interested in seed saving, you will be amazed by the incredible genetic diversity that exists among those plants selected over the centuries for human consumption. Don't let the Latin classifications scare you away.