Product Description: Jointly published with INRA, Paris.Pesticide resistance is becoming more frequent and widespread with more than 500 insect species known to have become resistant to synthetic insecticides. On the other hand, consumers increasingly demand agricultural products without any pesticide residues...read more

Product Description: This authoritative multi-author reference covers the pests of all major vegetable crops grown outdoors in temperate latitudes. Details are given on the geographical distribution, description, life-cycle, damage and control of each pest...read more

Product Description: A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.  If you’ve ever had a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen or a gopher wreaking havoc in your yard, you may have wondered what a conscientious gardener or homeowner can do short of heavy-duty chemical warfare...read more

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A useful guide to the recognition and understanding of the causes of deterioration in temperate and tropical fruits and vegetables, this illustrated volume deals clearly and systematically with each of the main diseases and disorders, emphasizing those of importance to international trade.

Gives advice from a backyard gardener on growing everything from apples to zucchini, and presents his gardening experiences and realization that the love of gardening often drove him to use costly and time-consuming methods.

Product Description: Un jardín sano es un jardín en equilibrio. Las plagas y las enfermedades de las plantas atentan contra este principio, por eso es necesario conocer medidas preventivas y terapéuticas para restablecerlo. Esta guía describe las acciones adecuadas a través de textos explicativos y de una galería de fotos que ilustran las afecciones...read more

Product Description: Aiding readers in distinguishing between bugs that are beneficial to a garden s health and those that are harmful and disruptive, this guidebook will help gardeners reduce and eliminate insects without using chemical pesticides. With expert horticulture tips—from cultivating plants that attract helpful bugs to discovering common cures that ward off destructive insects—this resource teaches how to use nature to nurture a garden...read more

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Product Description: Plant diseases worldwide are responsible for billions of dollars worth of crop losses every year. With less agrochemicals being used and less new fungicides coming on the market due to environmental concerns, more effort is now being put into the use of genetic potential of plants for pathogen resistance and the development of induced or acquired resistance as an environmentally safe means of disease control...read more

Product Description: Geared for professional perennial growers, this updated reference helps growers fight the most important factors leading to plant loss: insect and mite pests and diseases. The destructive pests are each given a chapter, with headings covering identification, life stages, monitoring, and controlling each species of each pest...read more

Product Description: Gardeners who loved 50 Ways to Kill a Slug-which has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide-will welcome this equally practical and wildly funny follow-up. It promises to save plants and banish bad bugs from the backyard with 100 organic, chemical, and simply silly ways to wreak revenge on even the smallest pests...read more

Product Description: A practical guide to IPM is must reading if you make decisions about managing insect pests on vegetable crops. Written by experts this book is packed with photos, charts, and detailed descriptions of insects and management strategies...read more

Honeybees in the flowers, fire ants in the yard, roaches in the kitchen--the good, the bad, and the ugly bugs are all over Texas! And they're here in the Texas Bug Book, your complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas insects.Drawing on years of practical experience and research, organic gardening experts Malcolm Beck and Howard Garrett give detailed instructions on how to identify, understand the life cycle of, and control or protect Texas insects, mites, snails, slugs, nematodes, and other critters. They also include striking color photos and black-and-white drawings to help you identify each bug.What sets the Texas Bug Book apart from other insect guides is the authors' organic approach to pest control. Beck and Garrett highlight the many useful roles that bugs play in nature and offer proven organic remedies for infestations of pest insects. Most importantly, they explain how to create a balanced, healthy environment in which infestations are much less likely to occur.