The Gardener's Guide to Common-Sense Pest Control

by William Olkowski, Sheila Daar, Helga Olkowski

This important resource gives homeowners hundreds of environmentally effective ways to control garden pests. Here are all the no- to low-toxicity remedies for ridding lawns, gardens, and trees of destructive invaders. From microscopic organisms that case plant-killing blights to burrowing moles that destroy gardents and lawns, readers find solutions to all their pest problems. Photos.

Genres: Gardening

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 5, 2013

About the author

BS Entomology and Plant Pathology, MS Medical Entomology Univ. Delaware,
PHD Biological Control of Insect Pests, UC, Berkeley, and IPM Specialist for 40 years spent teaching people how to reduce pesticide use. Add to that an Ecological Innovator, Urban Agriculturalist and farmer, Teacher, Philosopher, Painter and Poet. Interests: Human and Animal Diseases, Archeology, Ethology, Bioethics and lots of other things. Always a student.

I Like to think of myself as a Scientific Ecological Rationalist (an “SER”), but now am a gardener and blogger called the Entomological Philosopher hoping the world will turn around some more before being engulfed by our expected-to be-exploding sun.

Publications
His books include “Common Sense Pest Control” and “The Gardeners Guide to Least Toxic Pest Control", The Integral Urban House, and The City People’s Book of Raising Food, among others. His publications include other books, scientific papers, government reports, book reviews, technical pest control manuals, and more extensively, articles in the “IPM Practitioner” and “Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly for over 30 years.” His blog covers book reviews on health, ecology, parasitology, medical entomology, among other subjects, essays, movie reviews, personal poems and rants, etc.

A website includes many of his published scientific papers, paintings, some selected letters, poems and project reports. He has consulted with the EPA, NPS, AID, NIH, private businesses and city, county, state agencies and school districts about least toxic pest control. He is familiar with various ecological social organizations from starting non-profit organizations, and is proud of helping to start the first recycling centers in the US, the first ecology center (in Berkeley), and the Farallones Institute, Antioch College West, and a small farm based school for educating disadvantaged young women, and the non-profit organization The BioIntegral Resource Center, publisher of two international Journals: The IPM Practitioner, and The Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly. Now based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Reviews

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a corrected review as the review for a different book had been placed here by accident. Every garden has some kind of pest be it insect, bird, or animal. This work offers solution ranging from organic and natural to chemical and artificial. There are detailed descriptions of many of these pests. Pest Control is a good addition to the gardener's library.

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish they had more on rabbits, but some good stuff in here.

[Amigo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This an excellent, condensed and updated version of the classic Common Sense Pest Control. Covers a wide spectrum of pest management issues for gardeners and homeowners. I recommend it on my radio show often. A great, practical, useful book

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource!