Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening Book
- ISBN-10
- 0884150380
- ISBN-13
- 9780884150381
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 245
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author
- Howard Garrett
Description
This book will change the way you garden. Try this safe, natural, and highly effective program and discover for yourself how easy it is to grow healthy, beautiful plants without risk to your family, pets, and the environment. Written especially for Texans, Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening Book shows you how to use our native plants, soil, and growing conditions to produce organically healthy gardens, lawns, and landscapes without harmful chemicals. Learn to improve the soil by adding organic matter instead of synthetic fertilizers. Grow healthy fruits and vegetables that are safe to eat. Recycle kitchen and yard wastes into compost. Keep harmful insects and other pests under control without toxic pesticides. Control unsightly weeds and garden diseases with environmentally safe products. Organic gardening is more than just changing the kind of garden products you use - you must change your entire approach to gardening. You must learn to work with nature to bring about a balance of rich, healthy soil, organic matter, plants, and insects. This book shows you how. Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as an organic gardener to give you clear-cut, step-by-step instructions for growing trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and grasses the natural way. He recommends ecologically safe products and even includes some homemade remedies for controlling pests and diseases in your yard and garden. Everything you need to know to start your own successful organic program is here at your fingertips. Superb color photographs and helpful illustrations throughout make this a must-have book for every home gardener, farmer, nurseryman, and landscaper.
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