The truth about organic gardening : benefits, drawbacks, and the bottom line /
Provides an introduction to organic gardening, and rates the safety and effectiveness of over one hundred organic and synthetic gardening products and practices.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Portland, Or. :
Timber Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Organic basics
- What is organic gardening?
- How organic is organic enough?
- History of organic growing
- Understanding pesticides
- The label
- Pesticide delivery
- Environmental impact quotients (EIQs) and toxicological effects
- Soil enrichment and fertilization
- Choices free of synthetic chemicals
- Choices that include synthetic chemicals
- The best choices for you
- Weed control
- Choices free of synthetic chemicals
- Synthetic herbicides
- The best choices for you
- Insect control
- Organic cultural practices
- Traps and barriers
- Beneficial insects and other organisms
- Organic insecticides
- Synthetic insecticides
- Practices designed to increase pesticide efficacy
- The best choices for you
- Disease control
- Organic cultural practices
- Organic chemicals for disease control
- Synthetic chemicals for disease control
- The best choices for you
- Controlling birds, deer, rodents, and mollusks
- Bird control: the organic choices
- Bird control: the synthetic choices
- Deer control
- Rodent control: the organic choices
- Rodent control: the synthetic choices
- Slug and snail control: the organic choices
- Slug and snail control: the synthetic choices
- The best choices for you
- Organic practices and our ecosystem
- Environmental benefits
- Environmental drawbacks
- What to do?
- The question of organic food
- Pesticide residues
- Nutrition
- Contamination
- Antioxidants
- What to do?.