Ecological Gardening: Your Safe Path to a Healthy, Beautiful Garden - Softcover

Harris, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030735735X ISBN 13: 9780307357359

Publisher: Random House Canada, 2009

Synopsis

Marjorie Harris returns with a completely updated edition of her sixteen-year-old classic guide to gardening with the environment in mind.

In her witty and accessible style, Marjorie Harris – who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s – encourages the Canadian gardener to get back to basics. With information updated for today’s society, Ecological Gardening shows how little use pesticides and chemicals are when making a lush and abundant garden. In 1992, when the book was first published, gardening ecologically was a choice – now, it’s absolutely a matter of proper stewardship. With a society intent on leaving as small a footprint on the earth as possible, there is no better time than now for this important and vital book.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

In her witty and accessible style, Marjorie Harris--who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s--encourages the Canadian gardener to garden gently. First published in 1992, this popular guide updates Harris's organic gardening experience:

Compost: Everything you need to know, from composting to worms to building your own double-bin composter.
Soil: Learn how to maintain and improve soil without the use of chemicals.
Bugs: How to eliminate the bad bugs without the use of pesticides and help the good bugs to their job in your garden.
Plant Companions: How to make the most of your plants by using the old-fashioned and powerful technique of companion planting.
Xeriscaping: Plant a water-efficient garden and help conserve this natural resource.
Organic Products: Harris gives the concerned gardener a quick lesson in label reading for "green" and "organic" products.Ecological Gardening helps Canadian gardeners to create beautiful and healthy gardens while working in harmony with the environment.

About the Author

Marjorie Harris is one of Canada’s leading garden writers. She has been the gardening columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1990, makes speeches across the country and is the Editor-at-Large
at Gardening Life magazine. She has written 15 gardening books and has a plant consulting business in Toronto where she lives. Born in Shaunovon, Saskatchewan, she was educated from Goose Bay, Labrador to Vancouver, B.C. and graduated from McMaster University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 030735735X
• ISBN 13: 9780307357359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224