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    Organic Garden Pest Control: Organic Methods To Stop Disease & Garden Pests
    Organic Garden Pest Control: Organic Methods To Stop Disease & Garden Pests
    Organic Garden Pest Control: Organic Methods To Stop Disease & Garden Pests
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    Organic Garden Pest Control: Organic Methods To Stop Disease & Garden Pests

    By James Paris

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    A Comprehensive Guide To Garden Pest Control

    Growing organic vegetables successfully depends on not only an understanding of organic planting & growing methods – such as Companion Planting - but also a good grasp of the techniques used to control pests and disease.

    After putting a lot of time, effort and cash into growing good healthy pollution-free vegetables; just how on earth do you protect them from the predations of insects and disease without using poisonous chemical sprays?

    In this book James focuses on a good selection of both the destructive and the beneficial insects that you may encounter in your vegetable garden.

    Subjects Included In This Book:

    List of Destructive Pests:

    This is a list of 20 destructive insect pests that you do not want to encourage in to your veggie patch. Includes brief descriptions and pictures for many of them to help with identification.

    List of Beneficial Insects:

    It is important to understand that many species of insects are in fact beneficial for the garden, as they help with destructive insect control and pollination of the plants. Here James has included a short-list of ten beneficial insects, including pictures and brief descriptions.

    First Step – prevention:

    How to take steps right from the beginning, to ensure the minimal effort when it comes to protecting your maturing crops later in the season, from insect and disease control.

    Second Step – Seek & Destroy!

    This is a complete list of solutions to counter the ravages of destructive insects.

    DIY Sprays & Solutions:

    A selection of  DIY sprays that you can make that will control most – if not all- pests as well as help protect against fungal attack like powdery mildew.

    Store-Bought Solutions:

    A short collection of store-bought pest control remedies.

    Encourage Birds!?

    Popular pest-eating birds that can be extremely beneficial in controlling insects.

    Insect Beating Plants:

    Companion Planting techniques are an integral part of organic pest control. This is a short-list of great herbs and flowering plants to have around your organic garden.

    Misc Solutions:

    More ideas for discouraging insects and slugs from your veggie patch

    Composting:

    A basic introduction to making good compost, assuring you of good healthy plants more able to withstand the ravages of mould and insect attack.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeanburn Publications
    Release dateMar 16, 2016
    ISBN9781524245856
    Organic Garden Pest Control: Organic Methods To Stop Disease & Garden Pests
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    James Paris

    Born in to a family of nine children; Amazon Best Selling Author James Paris, was soon thrown into the deep end of providing 'value for money' for his parents by growing vegetables - along with keeping chickens, geese, turkeys and everything else associated with a small farm. He is a great enthusiast of Raised bed gardening, and growing fruit & vegetables in containers. A builder/joiner to trade, James also studied for the ministry through Bible College in England,and has been involved in "Christian things" for many years. Hobbies include Fly fishing, gardening, playing guitar and D.I.Y. Oh and of course,...writing! Writing has become his main passion these days,and he especially loves to write from his own experiences, that includes anything from gardening to building to Bible studies - The 'Spotlight on the Prophets' series, and The Bible Brief, a Bible Summary / study book, being two examples of the latter books.

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      Book preview

      Organic Garden Pest Control - James Paris

      Introduction:

      First of all I would like to say a huge Thank You, and congratulations on downloading my book on Organic Pest control.

      The idea behind organic growing methods, and the fact that you are growing plants free from the pollution that comes from popular chemical insecticides or fertilizers, is fantastic! However what do you do when you go out to inspect your prize crop, only to find that a plague of caterpillars or aphids or leaf-cutters – the list goes on – have decided to feast on your prize veggies?

      The slugs are happily munching their way through your strawberry patch, and the gooseberry sawfly has reduced your wonderful berry bush into a bunch of leafless sticks!

      You may find your tomato plant rotting at the stem, or the fruits covered with dark blotches. Leaf-mould is devastating your raspberries and powdery mildew is attacking your peas and carrots!

      To reach for the chemical sprays that are widely available to counter this onslaught, is not an option that is acceptable to the organic gardener. The idea after all is to prevent contamination of your food crop by these toxic chemicals, and instead embrace the concept of growing healthy food without resorting to the use of decidedly unhealthy chemicals.

      So...Is this actually possible? The short answer is of course YES.

      If you have read any of my previous books on gardening techniques and procedures, you will have noticed that I am very much a fan of organic growing. My book on Companion Planting in particular, promotes not only the concept of companion planting for best results in an organic garden – but also some of the techniques used to control pests through this method.

      There are many different ways to control garden pests as well as the fungal diseases that often accompany them, and in this book I will show how this can be done cheaply and effectively.

      However during all this we have to recognise that not all insects are pests. Some insects have a vital role to play in the garden, and in fact without these welcome visitors it is true to say that your vegetables would not prosper, and your fruit bushes would not ‘produce the goods.’

      The Good The Bad & The Ugly!

      In this book you will find out just what makes a ‘good’ insect and what make a ‘bad’ insect. As for the ‘ugly’ well in my opinion the earwig really creeps me out – but there is a long list of contenders in this category!

      When properly controlled, insects can play several positive roles in a balanced organic garden. They pollinate the plants, they protect the plants, and they add life and beauty to the garden as a whole.

      If not properly controlled however the exact opposite can occur and the destructive insects will gain the upper hand, leading to poor vegetable crops and worm-eaten fruit trees!

      In the

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