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Solving Weed Problems: How to Identify and Eradicate Them Effectively from Your Garden - Softcover

Loewer, Peter

 
9781585742745: Solving Weed Problems: How to Identify and Eradicate Them Effectively from Your Garden

Synopsis

Creative ideas for battling those unwanted garden invaders.

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About the Author

Peter Loewer has penned many articles for all the national gardening magazines and written and illustrated numerous gardening books, including The Wild Gardener, which was deemed one of the 75 Great Gardening Books by the American Horticultural Society. His radio show of the same name can be heard on National Public Radio in western North Carolina. He sits on the board of the J. C. Wilson Arboretum, and his work is in the permanent collection of Carnegie Mellon's Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation. He lives in North Carolina.

From the Back Cover

One person's weed may well be another's treasure, but whether you are a home gardener or a giant of agribusiness, there are some plants you need to get rid of in order to improve your desired crop. In Solving Weed Problems, horticulturist Peter Loewer helps identify which plants truly are weeds, then shows you the best ways to eliminate them.Elegantly illustrated, this handbook recounts a short history of weeds and how they got to America, and lists the most stubbornly pernicious species of the twenty-first century. Plus, it gives you important facts on the pollination and germination of weed seeds, their longevity, and their methods of dispersal. Find out which herbicides - chemical or organic - work best in every situation. Even find out the special circumstances when you may actually want to cultivate rather than eradicate certain weeds. (5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 288 pages, illustrations)

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