This is a complete guide to creating fertile gardens free of both pests and chemicals. Using a technique known as "integrated pest management", environmentally concerned gardeners can protect food and foliage from destructive garden insects without contaminating it with toxins. This book explains how to employ natural methods such as beneficial insects and other organisms, companion planting, minerals and soaps, and non-chemical pesticides in the war against garden-hungry pests. This book is arranged by plant rather than by pest, so that information can be located on a particular fruit, vegetable, flower, tree or shrub, to find out which insects particularly attack it. Also included is a complete listing of non-chemical pest control product suppliers and information sources currently available as well as examining the latest research by USDA and the Worldwide Insecticide Resistance Database.
