[.uk] Rodale Organic Gardening Solutions: Over 500 Answers to ... (ISBN 0875968511)

Book Description:
For years, gardeners have submitted questions to the staff and editors of Organic Gardening magazine, dealing with the real challenges they face in their own yards and gardens. Combined with the honest, well-informed answers of the OG staff, the question-and-answer department has become the most popular in the magazine. Now the best of these questions have been collected in one volume. The OG experts answer tough questions about gardening safely and organically, such as "will it hurt my garden if I mulch with clippings from lawns that have been sprayed with herbicides or pesticides?" and "does watering my garden with chlorinated tap water kill helpful soil microorganisms?" Organic Gardening Solutions also includes helpful suggestions for all kinds of gardeners with specific questions on herb, flower, and vegetable gardening, controlling weeds, fighting insect pests, composting, soil care, garden design, caring for trees and shrubs, and water gardening.

A "must" for the novice gardener.:
In Rodale Organic Gardening Solutions, Cheryl Long collaborated with the editors of "Organic Gardening" magazine to offer the gardener easy, proven, practical organic, non-toxic solutions for sixty common gardening problems. Readers will learn how to get the most from their vegetable crops, produce beautiful flower gardens, learn to nurture tree and vine fruits, discover how to grow their own seasonings, master the nuts and bolts of saving and starting seeds, improve composting and soil management, keep pests under control, control weeds organically, and simplify lawn and landscape care. Superbly organized and thoroughly "user friendly", Rodale Organic Gardening Solutions is a "must" for the novice gardener, and has much of significant value to offer even the more experienced horticulturalist.