If you’re tired of fighting pests in your garden, you need to arm yourself with Ed Rosenthal’s new book.

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If you ’re looking for a straight template to distribute with job in your garden , Ed Rosenthal ’s new Christian Bible is for you . “ Protect Your Garden ” ( 2013 , Quick American Publishing ) is a troubleshooting guide that helps gardener work their most teasing pest , disease and alimental trouble .

The book shuns synthetic solutions and instead afford nurseryman an armory of eco - friendly estimation for using barriers , biological controller , and reasonable unripened pesticide .

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Quick American Publishing sent me a free review copy of Rosenthal ’s Holy Scripture and in the front pageboy was a eminence sign by Ed . He wrote , “ For four ten I ’ve been indite for a demanding audience that is growing a high value crop , often indoors , cheeseparing to family and PET . The harvest home must be safe for them to consume . My advice stay on the same , no matter of the plant :

How to Protect Your Garden

Rosenthal ’s leger is easy to use . Gardeners can rapidly rick to any of five section and find what they ’re looking for . The sections report pest , diseases , nourishing deficiencies , environmental stresses , and control like pesticide and fungicides , as well asBeneficial Biologicals .

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In the section on pests , each chapter offers a description of the pest , full color images for well-to-do recognition , what the pest does to the plant and a form of preventative measures and job - solving technique for managing each cuss .

Pests include everything annoying from ants to mallet to whiteflies . gopher turtle , mole and rats are also included . Even if you do n’t know what ’s stimulate the damage to your garden , the pictures are a good pathfinder to helping address the mystery story .

The section on diseases follows a similar format with the name of the disease , what it look like , what cause it and how to manipulate it . Black daub fungus , deaden off and powdery mildew are just a few of the fungous and bacterial diseases covered in the chapter .

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Rosenthal also gives nurseryman ideas on how to keep plant diseases in the first position . He urge soaking seeds in compost tea , hydrogen peroxide or other treatments to advance disease - free germinations , then follow by spraying when plant are under stress .

Gardeners concerned about the environment will take account all the eco - friendly controls listed in the ledger . A domicile - made solution of 90 percent alcohol and water system vote out mealybug and scale ; capsaicin insecticidal spray helps protect insect from plants and also acts as a contact insecticide . Chamomile bloom tea suppresses weaken off and cinnamon is a fungicide and a pesticide .

“ Protect Your Garden ” is useable forpurchase online .

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