Environmentally Friendly Ways to Manage Pests and Disorders in Your Garden and Landscape
You can grow healthy roses with high-quality blooms with little to no use of toxic materials, and this guide will show you how! The experts at the University of California have written this beautiful guide especially for the home rose enthusiast. By using this guide, you’ll learn how to identify problems, take action when appropriate, and recognize beneficial insects.
You’ll get sound advice on how to adapt Integrated Pest Management practices to the home garden -- methods of controlling pests and diseases using alternatives such as beneficial insects, traps and barriers, and less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils and microbials. You’ll also learn about how to take preventative measures like careful selection of varieties, site selection and planting, proper watering, how and when to prune, and weed management.
This 32-page guide is profusely illustrated with 48 color photographs and includes handy tables on soil pH and nutrient levels.
Take a look at the table of contents and an excerpt.
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