NATURAL CONTROL of GARDEN PESTS

by JACKIE FRENCH

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New softcover book, 190 pages. First published 1990, this revised 2nd edition published 2002 and reprinted several times measures 16 x 24cm.

If your impossible great-aunt Gladys planned to visit you, you wouldn't get out the arsenic. You'd find some way of discouraging her before she came.

Jackie French uses the same approach to garden pests, countering those who think carpet bombing with toxic chemicals is the only solution.

Jackie is a life-giver, not a death-dealer and her approach to the plants and creatures that inhabit gardens is wise, balanced and practical. Concentrate on growing crops well, and you'll find that you have very few pest or disease problems to worry about. Those pests that persist can be controlled with the multitude of organic pesticides and fungicides Jackie has developed and tested in 2 decades of observation, experimentation and hard work.

Natural Control of Garden Pests contains workable natural gardening and farming methods, along with techniques for natural pest control in flower and vegetable gardens, orchards and small farms, including bird-attracting plants, companion plants, organic pest remedies and a natural pest control calendar.

Chapters include:

• A problem-free garden
• The pest-free orchard
• The pest-free vegetable garden
• The pest-free flower garden
• Some common pests
• Organic pesticides and fungicides
• Pest control calendar

About the Author

Jacqueline Anne 'Jackie' French (born 1 December 1953) is an award-winning Australian author of children's fiction, and books on gardening. She was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane, but moved to the bush in her early twenties. She is a keen gardener and appeared on the TV series Burke's Backyard. She has written well over a hundred books. Jackie lives in New South Wales, near the small town of Braidwood at Araluen. She began writing when she was 30, in a desperate attempt to get enough money together to register her car. At the time, she was living in a tin shed with a black snake named Gladys and a wombat named Smudge. A hundred and thirty plus books later, she is still writing. She is one of Australia's most popular children's writers.

Jackie owns a flourishing organic farm in southern New South Wales. She practises what she preaches and has become one of Australia's foremost experts on organic gardening, through her regular television and radio appearances, as well as her 'Season By Season' column in Earth Garden magazine. She is also an award-winning children's author and has written more than 30 books on pest control, chooks, self-sufficiency, useful plants and other ways of growing things.

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Natural Control of Garden Pests by Jackie French