An illustrated plant problem resource offers A-to-Z coverage of more than 180 plant types, with a field guide to more than one hundred pests and diseases, and provides the latest information on effective organic controls.

Rodale's Pest & Disease Problem Solver: A Chemical-Free Guide to Keeping Your Garden Healthy

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Smith, Miranda

Gilkeson, Linda

Peirce, Pam

Gardening & Landscape Design

Rodale Pr

This book tells you how to control vegetable pests using methods that are friendly to the environment. Learn truly effective pest and disease control methods that favor natural predators and maintain the ecological balance in your garden.

Controlling vegetable pests

Pierce, Pamela

Ortho Books, Chevron Chemical Co.

"Golden Gate Gardening", the definitive primer on vegetable gardening in Northern California, is encyclopedic in its coverage of gardening principles and practices specific to the region. Full of information and camaraderie, this book explains how to grow common vegetables and herbs and add unusual ones that bring variety to the garden. Line art throughout .

Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California

Riverhouse Nursery

"For vegetable gardening in the Bay Area, Golden Gate Gardening is indispensable--if you buy one gardening book, this is the one." --Michael Pollan This fully revised fourth edition of the ultimate food gardening bible for Central and Northern Californians includes updates that&nbsp;address changes in climate, crop availability and sources, and pest management strategies, and includes expanded help for inland, hot summer gardeners. The gardening guide has become a perennial seller, beloved by both new and experienced gardeners for its friendly, practical advice on how to grow fresh produce all year long. Expert author Pam Peirce shows how to use the unique local conditions of climate, soil, and rainfall to grow both common and unusual vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, cut flowers, and fruit from trees and shrubs including berries, citrus and avocados for your kitchen garden. This encyclopedic guide covers all the bases, including what to plant in every season, how to select varieties, assess a microclimate, organize a garden, manage pests and weeds safely and effectively, attract beneficial creatures, conserve water, improve soil, make compost, harvest wisely, and garden in containers. It includes delicious, seasonal garden-to-table recipes and an essay on learning to eat from a garden. Charts, sidebars, illustrations, maps, resource lists, and cross references make it easy for readers to find the information they need. This vegetable gardening book will especially help readers in the San Francisco Bay Area and in California coastal areas from Humboldt County south to San Luis Obispo, as well as those in nearby mild-winter inland climates (including Alameda, San Mateo, Marin, Santa Clara, Monterey, and Santa Cruz counties).

Golden Gate Gardening, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California

Sasquatch Books

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