The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases: Earth-Safe Remedies

by Barbara Pleasant

Overview

This easy-to-use reference will help you identify and control more than 50 of the most common diseases that can afflict your garden’s plants. With expert advice on dealing with everything from foliar diseases and airborne pathogens to nematodes and insect-vectored bacterial diseases, Barbara Pleasant offers a variety of simple, inexpensive, and organic treatments that will effectively combat disease and prevent its recurrence. You’ll quickly become skilled at nurturing your plants through the ravages disease can bring and enjoy a healthy and thriving garden. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882662749
Publisher:	Storey Books
Publication date:	01/02/1995
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	304,495
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Barbara Pleasant has been covering organic gardening and self-sufficient living for more than 30 years. A contributing editor to Mother Earth News, Pleasant has garnered multiple awards from the Garden Writers Association and the American Nursery and Landscape Association. She has written books on topics ranging from compost to weeds, including Homegrown Pantry, Starter Vegetable Gardens, The Complete Compost Gardening Guide (with Deborah L. Martin), The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual, The Gardener’s Bug Book, The Gardener’s Weed Book, The Gardener’s Guide to Plant Diseases, and Garden Stone. Her columns and articles appear regularly in Mother Earth Living magazine and at GrowVeg.com and on other informational websites. Pleasant lives in Virginia, where she grows vegetables, herbs, and fruits along with a few chickens, who all have names. 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Gardener as Plant Physician: An Overview of Backyard Plant Pathology

Chapter 2 Ailments from the Earth: Plant Pathogens that Live in Soil

Chapter 3 Mobile Marauders: Airborne Pathogens that Persist in Host Plant Tissues

Chapter 4 Blotches, Spots, and Specks: Leaf Spots and Other Foliar Diseases

Chapter 5 Deadly Conspiracies: Insect-Vectored Bacterial Diseases

Chapter 6 The Tiniest Terrors: Viruses and Their Vectors

Chapter 7 Nightmare Nematodes: Root-knot, Lesion, and Other Nematodes

Chapter 8 Great Masqueraders: Common Plant Problems that Resemble Diseases

Chapter 9 What's Ailing My Garden? A Quick-Reference Table to Diseases Affecting

Common Garden Crops

IndeX