Price : $15.75

Product Description

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 : $13.59

Product Description

Written by a 20-year veteran of landscape design and aimed at those with limited space for a garden, this guide features 18 profiles of gorgeous small garden paradises. Using step-by-step instructions, before-and-after photographs and detailed plans, landscape architect Keith Davitt offers tips and techniques for creating the illusion of space through terracing, enlarging through dividing and adding texture and colour.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-11-12
I’ve searched in bookstores for appropriate books for a very small garden, to no avail. This book gives outstanding ideas for making a small space seem larger as well as more inviting. Of particular interest are the summaries (based upon the material reviewing each garden) as well as the "before" pictures that accompany the article (giving hope to those with bleak bare spaces). Also, there are drawings that show the overall concept for each garden, which provides a context for the individual photographs.

Highly recommended.

Review date : 2008-09-05
I was looking for a book to provide some inspiration. This just doesn’t cut it. All the ideas are basically the same theme of too much vegetation and old world stone work.

If you have a truly small space, you’ll want to use it efficiently. This book guides you to crowd it with stuff rather than open it up smartly.

Get John Brooks book instead.

Review date : 2007-12-23
Looking for ideas for some small gardens and outdoor spaces for some new homes I am building. This book offered very little support.

Review date : 2007-10-19
The title says it all. Amazing what you can do with such little space. Beautifully illustrated with before and after pictures, step by step explanations and level of complexity.

Review date : 2007-05-28
The author’s non-traditional approach to garden design produces exceptional results. Before and after photos beautifully portray his amazing transformations. The author clearly describes the challenges he faced with each garden project, provides an illustration of his solution and then takes you step by step through the transformation process discussing the elements of design he used and how he applied them. I’ve read several books on landscape design and this is the first one that has truly helped me apply the principles and elements of design to my own garden spaces. My husband and I recently bought a new construction home and we are both excited to begin the transformation of our blank slate yard into a wonderful suburban retreat.