The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

The health aspects of organic gardnening cannot be overstated. The petroleum-based fertilizers and toxic pesticides, genetic alterations, etc. of current farming techniques are causing many health problems and will increasingly do so. This book, and other books like it, reveal truly healthy and environmentally safe techniques to grow untainted food that is truly nutitious. Your local supermarket does not sell food, it sells commerical products. Food depleted of its nutrients cannot be "enriched"; what was healthy is now "dead" food. Much in the same way most of us have been duped into buying "health plans". Such should be more appropriately called "sickness plans". Health plans do nothing to keep you healthy. Not one penny of your payment goes to increasing your health and boosting your immune system. But rather you pay them to expose you to what can be deadly immunizations and in fact they are much more harmful than beneficial. Germs are not your enemy. The suppression of your immune system is. It is what you do to your own body and immune system. What you willing (and sometimes unwillingly) expose yourself to is what makes a person sick. Your body is completely capable of healing itself when you provide it with the proper nutients found in natural herbs, fruits, and vegetables grown free of man-made chemicals and toxins. The answers are out there but the medical establishment wants to keep them from you. It makes big pharma billions every year. For example if most of you knew that there are at least 10 (ten) cures for cancer what would we do with all those who overnight would become unemployed? Yes, there are commercial entities that want control over your life in every way, whether you realize it or not. Take control of your life or let the government be your guardian. Which one of these options is best for you?

Glad to have found this very useful book.

Wife wants to solve the issues but not read and see details on bugs, etc.. I guess I will be the one referring to this comprehensive book

I get this book out every summer during growing season to look up bugs and diseases. It has gotten me through 4 summers now. It is not uncommon to see me on my knees in my garden with this book in my hand. I haven't found a bug yet that I can't identify in this book. It tells you what bugs are good bugs and what bugs are bad bugs, and why. This book has also come in handy when identifying diseases. I had a disease on my tomatoes one year and was able to identify the disease and read what was causing the disease and how to treat the disease. I would recommend this book to any gardener, beginner or expert.

The book was very good from a technical standpoint but more than I wanted or needed. I was looking more for the home remedies to my garden problems. Things that I would normally have in the kitchen, such as soap, garlic, pepper, etc. It did have some of those remedies but there were many more technically more complex and commercially available fixes to my garden problems. I could have gotten this information from reading the backs of compound containers at the the garden supply store.A good and well researched book but not what I was looking because the title led me to believe it was solutions without chemicals and most of the solutions are what I consider to be chemical.

Received and thumbed through. Large amount of reading a head. Sections logically broken down with symptoms, problems and solutions each outlined. Last year we spent a large amount of time on the web trying to identify pests and whether they were good or bad. We also had a possible virus or bacteria, but we couldn't identify them on the web. In the few minutes I thumbed through the book, I already had the answers to what happened to our garden last year.I'm sure I will be reading and referring to this book all growing season. Will be an excellent part of our gardening library.

my brother in law and i decided to do a garden this year for our family. i'm not sure who is the less knowledgable on this subject he or I. this book though, has been very helpful. i refer to it almost daily. last week i saw an odd looking insect on the beans and found its photo and description in the book along with some ideas for managing it. yesterday i found an explanation for a discoloration on the leaves of some of the tomato plants along with a solution. if you're looking into starting a garden, this book should be one of your 1st priorities

I bought this a couple years ago. It was nice to be able to look up what was eating my plants. I didn't spray anything on my crops last year but the year before I found it handy to anytime this book said bT replace it with Sevin. I know, I know but there are about 80 (exagerated) types of bt but only one sevin. Anyhoot, this is a good garden entymology book and if you are will to follow the recommendations then kudos to you.