The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening: Essays on the Natural Way
by Howard Garrett
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Plant growers of all kinds are turning to organic products and procedures for vigorous, healthy plants. Since 1988, J. Howard Garrett has been in the forefront of the organic gardening movement, dispensing well-tested advice through The Natural Way, his radio program and column in the Dallas Morning News. In this expert guide, he offers a complete program for organic gardening. After an opening chapter on the basics of organics, he covers soil management, fertilization and composting, pest show more control (even fire ants and mosquitoes), landscaping (including tree care, wildflowers, and lawn care), food crops, and wildlife (attracting helpful animals and repelling harmful ones). With this information, professional and home gardeners alike can learn how to eliminate their chemical dependency and grow plants the natural way. Let The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening be your one-stop source for cost-effective, earth-friendly, complete, and easy-to-understand gardening information. show lessTags
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Howard Garrett is a landscape architect, certified arborist, horticulturist, and organic practitioner in Dallas, Texas. He promotes his organic gardening program through his radio and TV shows, weekly column in the Dallas Morning News, monthly Dirt Doctor's Dirt magazine, The Organic Manual: Natural Gardening for the 21st Century, and regional and show more national speaking engagements show less
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- Home & Garden, Nonfiction
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- 635.0484 — Applied science & technology Agriculture Garden crops (Horticulture) modified standard subdivisions Cultivation, harvesting Special methods of cultivation Organic gardening
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- SB453.5 .G36 — Agriculture Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding Plant culture
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