book review
Protect
Your Garden
Protect Your Garden is a handy guide every gardener should have readily accessible. Within its full-color pages, the author provides many eco-friendly solutions for treating common and not-so-common plant ailments, as well as covering a wide range of pests, diseases, nutrient imbalances and environmental stresses that are known to harm crops. Protect Your Garden is well-organized and thorough, making it beneficial for any level of gardener. Featuring over 100 photos, Protect Your Garden helps readers identify their problems and know what to look for. Everything is covered alphabetically so you can quickly reference what you need to know. Within each chapter, the author addresses a gardener’s most common concerns about many potential threats to their crop, but does so in an encouraging, “it’s going to get better” way. Many pests and plant diseases can be remedied in more than one way, and this book provides a few different solutions when available and takes a nonbiased approach without favoring one treatment over conanother. For example, mealybug pests can be con trolled with neem oil, alcohol sprays, herbal and citrus oils or insecticidal soaps. From addressing common container problems, and what to do about less than ideal growroom conditions, this educational resource ensures it covers the majority of problems gardeners face. All of the remedies are natural, which lead to safe consumption of your sought after harvests. Protect Your Garden is a reference guide and a beginners guide all in one because it’s a great refresher for experienced gardeners, yet if a gardening novice were to sit down and read the book cover to cover, one would feel like an expert gardener once they were finished. This is an informative book that doesn’t intimidate. It’s all of the answers you might be tempted to search for online, but are right there at your fingertips. Take a break from a sunny day in your garden and have a read. This new book is available through select garden retail stores like Nickel City, BWGS and Great Lakes Garden Wholesale. Visit pestanddisease.com for more information. 154
Maximum Yield usa | June 2013