Grow Organic: Over 250 Tips and Ideas for Growing Flowers, Veggies, Lawns, and More - Softcover

Doug Oster; Jessica Walliser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976763168 ISBN 13: 9780976763161

Publisher: St. Lynn's Press, 2007

Synopsis

Grow Organic offers essential insights to help gardeners of all skill levels achieve their organic potential. Nine chapters include the lowdown on composting, companion planting, organic pest control, soil management and much more - with an invaluable Friends of the Organic Gardener source guide appendix.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For Beginning and Experienced Gardeners Alike
If you dream of having a beautiful lawn, fruits and veggies to die for, a flower bed that just won't stop, and a garden environment where all of nature has the chance to thrive without pesticides - this book is your answer.

GROW ORGANIC is an accessible, richly informative, witty and insightful guide to helping gardeners of all skill levels achieve their organic potential. For those millions of gardeners who are now realizing that organic is the only way to grow, this book offers practical information to help get ""the real dirt"" on up-to-date, easy-to-understand organic practices.

Nine chapters give you the lowdown on composting, companion planting, organic pest control, soil management and much more - with an invaluable Friends of the Organic Gardener source guide appendix. Got questions? In each chapter you'll find a quick and easy reference list of how-to tricks and tips the authors have discovered during their combined gardening experience of nearly 50 years.

""Co-authors Jessica Walliser and Doug Oster are terrific guides along the organic path. Safe, simple solutions are offered instead of toxic chemical fixes... and you'll fall in love with your garden all over again as you learn to garden cooperatively with nature."" -Ann Lovejoy, author of Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School and Gardening from Scratch  

""This is a great book filled with useful information - fun to read, straightforward and convincing. If you were not an organic gardener when you started, you will be by the end."" -Holly H. Shimizu, Executive Director, United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.

About the Author:

Doug Oster is a garden columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the co-host of two weekly radio shows on KDKA in Pittsburgh and a national show heard weekly on Sirius/Lime radio. He is also the co-author of Grow Organic, Over 250 Tips and Ideas for Growing Flowers, Veggies, Lawns, and More.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Lynn's Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0976763168
• ISBN 13: 9780976763161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224