The Healthy Garden Handbook: An Illustrated Guide to Combating Insects, Garden Pests, and Plant Diseases

by Mother Earth News (Editor)

Here, in one comprehensive, authoritative, and lavishly illustrated volume, is all the know-how you need to solve your gardening mysteries and bring ailing plants back to life. The Healthy Gardening Handbook gives you a unique field guide to insect and animal pests, a vegetable-by-vegetable guide to common growing problems and their solutions, and an invaluable diagnostic chart of common plant diseases - all in an exhaustive compendium of garden-tested remedies. Plus, it features all the latest information, with special emphasis on preventive measures and nonchemical cultivation techniques. This encyclopedic catalogue of advice on plant health is lively, accessible, and full of helpful charts, photographs, and line drawings, almost all of them in full color.

191 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1989

Reviews

[Jules McDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the best gardening handbook I’ve found.
Everything you need to get started with spring veggie planting is in here.

[Connie Lemmink · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is extremely helpful while planting my garden. My favorite go-to pages are in the companion planting section.