Plants of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex III

Plants of the Metroplex III

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Garrett, J. Howard

Gardening & Landscape Design

University of Texas Press

Plant growers of all kinds are turning to organic products and procedures for vigorous, healthy plants. Since 1988, J. Howard Garrett has been in the forefront of the organic gardening movement, dispensing well-tested advice through "The Natural Way," his radio program and column in the Dallas Morning News. In this expert guide, he offers a complete program for organic gardening. After an opening chapter on the basics of organics, he covers soil management, fertilization and composting, pest control (even fire ants and mosquitoes), landscaping (including tree care, wildflowers, and lawn care), food crops, and wildlife (attracting helpful animals and repelling harmful ones). 
 With this information, professional and home gardeners alike can learn how to eliminate their chemical dependency and grow plants "the natural way." Let The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening be your one-stop source for cost-effective, earth-friendly, complete, and easy-to-understand gardening information.

The Dirt Doctor’s Guide to Organic Gardening: Essays on the Natural Way

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.

Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening Book

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Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as an organic gardening expert to give you clear-cut, step-by-step instructions for growing flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grasses the natural way. Discover how easy it is to grow healthy, beautiful plants without the risk to your family, pets, and the environment.

Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Grasses, and Food Crops the Natural Way

Gulf Publishing

This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.

Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible Plants the Natural Way

Beck, C. Malcolm

Taylor Trade Publishing

Knowing when and how to plant a tree are crucial to its survival. But if you select the wrong tree for your particular area and conditions, the proper planting techniques will not make a difference. Because Texas is a big place with varied climates, soils, and water qualities, a wide variety of trees can be grown there. Howard Garrett, also known as the "Dirt Doctor," explores the wide-ranging possibilities in a book that will prove its value to homeowners, landscape architects, contractors, nurseries, gardeners, and others who want healthy trees. Texas Trees includes a complete description of native and best-introduced trees and gives details on natural habitats and preferred sites, planting and maintenance, identification information, flowers, fruit and foliage, culture, problems, and propagation. Texas Trees is for all Texas tree lovers, from the Red River to the Gulf Coast, the piney woods to the deserts and mountains.

Howard's Garrett's Texas Trees

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