Price : $15.75

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Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and crops, and more than 100 drawings, this book, with its authoritative text, enables you to identify pests quicklyand to prevent, correct, or live with most common pest problems. Crop tables at the end of the book describe major pests on 30 vegetable and fruit tree crops and refer you to specific pages for more detail. The book’s approach minimizes the use of broad spectrum pesticides, relying primarily on alternatives such as: biological control; resistant varieties; traps and barriers; less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials; changing planting, irrigation, or cultivating procedures; and other preventive measures. Includes: landscape designs that prevent pests; planting, irrigating, other plant care activities that prevent potential problems; resistant varieties; biological controls (use of parasites, predators, or pathogens); less-toxic pesticides such as soaps, oil, and microbials; mulches and other physical and mechanical controls; references, suppliers list, and glossary.Now in an extensively revised new edition, the highly successful Pests of the Garden and Small Farm adapts scientifically based integrated pest management techniques to the needs of the home gardener and small-scale farmer.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2009-01-16
Amazon is the best place going for books. I bought this book, with Flint’s, Natural Enemies Handbook, last year as a birthday present for myself. I can honestly say, I never thought that I would enjoy this book or learning about bugs, as much as I do now. In one growing season, I was able to restore my landscaping, from what looked totally destroyed.
It is a definite must have reference book, geared for all growing conditions. Would be a great for gift for your favorite gardener.

Review date : 1996-06-07
A great book for reports and gardening. I like it and I am 12! Adults I have given it to also have liked it

Price : $8.59

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The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised:

Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods.Chicago Tribune
Best of the crop.House Beautiful
Barbara Damrosch’s writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose.The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer
Covers just about everything you could think of and then some. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An extraordinarily comprehensive guide. The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the ground.The Toronto Star

Now the beloved classic is revised front-to-back. The new edition has gone 100% organic, which in Barbara Damrosch’s hands also means completely accessible. It reflects the latest research on plants, soils, tools, and techniques. There is updated and expanded information on planning a garden, recommended plants, and best tools. Ecological issues are addressed much more extensively, covering lawn alternatives, the benefits of native species, wildlife-friendly gardens, and how to avoid harmful invasive species. More attention is paid to plants appropriate to the South, Southwest, and West Coast, while cold-climate gardeners are given detailed advice on how to extend the growing season. Simply put, the book is a richer and fuller compendium than ever before, with more text, more illustrations and garden plans, expanded plant lists, and gardener’s resources. But Barbara Damrosch’s core of practical, creative ideas and friendly style remainshe is still an old-fashioned dirt gardener at heart.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-11-16
I was so pleased with this book! I will be giving this book as a gift. The recepient will be so happy to receive it.

Review date : 2008-09-10
Although the front book cover has 100% Organic circled on it, she mentions several times to use treated wood in the garden. This of course would no longer make your garden organic as the chemicals to treat the wood would leach into the ground and feed your vegetables. The book doesn’t offer much information and is mostly regurgitated stuff from other books. The information offered is obvious and nothing new! I would not personally recommend this book. There are a lot more out there with better information.

Review date : 2008-06-27
This book is excellent! It has great, detailed information and is well organized. It’s a great addition to my books on gardening. I wish I’d bought it sooner!

Review date : 2008-06-18
This is the best gardening book I’ve come across so far. It covers so much, from houseplants to composting, and has a section on just about any vegetable you can think about growing. And it’s in depth! I will keep this book around for years!

Review date : 2008-06-02
Garden Primer is a superior gardener’s bible for the novice or master gardener. Barbara has out done herself in revising the Gardener’s Bible with this comprehensive guide.

Price : $21.43

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Edith Whartons Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of Americas greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their garden-magic and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the surrounding countryside.This beautiful hardcover facsimile is carefully reproduced from the first edition published in 1904 and features all of the original plates, including twenty-six illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, as well as dcollage edges. It is published in association with The Mount Press. A portion of the proceeds of the sale of the book support the restoration of The Mount, the Massachusetts estate designed and built by Wharton based on the principles articulated in this book and in The Decoration of Houses. Elegantly written and informed by Whartons sensitivity and wit, Italian Villas and Their Gardens is a work that belongs on the shelf of every lover of gardens and good taste.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-09-30
My sister read about this book in a recent magazine and we are totally delighted to see that it was available as a reprint from the original plates. Maxfield Parrish, the painter, did the illustrations and they are wonderful in their dreamlike qualities. And the prose by Ms Wharton are flowing and typical of the turn of the last century.

I would recommend this book as a coffe table book, a piece of art and a conversation piece all in one.