Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy by Nancarrow, Loren -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Why Organic?

Our Impact on the Food Supply Building Good Soil Steps to Healthy Soil in Your Garden

Determine just how out of balance the soil is by having it tested Get some air into the soil Add the right fertilizers Add organic matter to the soil Mulch the soil Don’t use insecticides or pesticides

Chapter 2: Garden and Lawn Diseases and Remedies

Garden Diseases, Symptoms, and Controls

Common plant, vegetable, and tree diseases Bacterial canker Bacterial leaf spot Black spot Damping-off disease Downy mildew Gray mold Fireblight Mosaic viruses Oak root fungus Peach tree curl Powdery mildew Rust Sooty mold Southern blight Verticillium wilt Water mold root rot

Fungus-Killing Sprays

Baking soda Garlic Vinegar

Lawn Diseases, Symptoms, and Controls

Start with the soil Know what kind of grass you have Is your lawn stressed out?

Chapter 3: Pest Control Solutions for the Garden and Lawn33

Common plant, vegetable, and tree pests

Common lawn grass pests

Control the Pest or Let Nature Take its Course? Attracting and Keeping Beneficial Insects in Your Garden

Aphid midge Assassin bug Big-eyed bug Braconid wasp Bumblebee Damsel bug Ground or carabid beetle Honeybee Hover fly (flower fly) Ichneumon wasp Lacewing Ladybug (ladybird beetle) Mealybug destroyer Minute pirate bug Nematode Praying mantis Predatory mite Snakefly Soldier beetle Spined soldier bug Tachinid fly Tiger beetle

How to Buy Beneficial Insects

Buying insect help What to do with the critters

Insect-Killing Sprays and Methods

Horticultural oil sprays Other homemade insect-killing sprays

Insect Repellents

All-purpose repellents 58 Insect-specific repellents Companion plantings to repel specific insects

Insect Traps

Homemade traps Mulch traps Pheromone traps Trap crops

Using Row Covers to Control Insect Pests Using Hot Water to Control Insects

To control insects in the soil To control insects on plants

Chapter 4: Make-It-Yourself Fertilizers, Mulches, and Compost

Using Organic Fertilizers

How organic fertilizers work Acid-loving plant help Blooming houseplant fertilizer Bulb fertilizer Camellia and azalea food Citrus fertilizer and sweetener General-purpose organic fertilizer Green manure fertilizer Iron fertilizers Leaf or foliar fertilizers Rose fertilizers Worm casting fertilizer and tonic Tree fertilizers Using seed-free manure

Free Fertilizers Making Your Own Mulch

Mulch 101 Making mulch

Tips on Making Compost

Do you need a compost bin? Starting a compost pile What size is the average pile? Problems in the pile? When is the compost finished? What is aged compost? How to use compost What’s that in my compost bin?

Chapter 5: Planting, Potting, and Maintenance Solutions, and Some Tips on Tools

Quick Tips for the Garden

Artichoke transplants Asparagus weeds Bulb storage Cantaloupe picking Cucumber climbers Growing more beans Growing more cabbages Heavy sprayer? Herbs for drying Homemade roasted sunflower seeds Melon care Mini plant covers Pennyroyal to chase pests Pollinating pointers Potato scab prevention Retaining soil moisture Roses and soil Shading delicate vegetables

Planting Tips Watering Tips Don’t Deadhead Flowers Again Using Earthworms to Make Good Topsoil Tips for the Christmas Season

Keep your Christmas tree fresh Flowering poinsettias year after year

How to Get Free Plants

Dividing Saving seeds Deadheading your way to beautiful free flowers What to do with cuttings Using self-seeding plants

Making Your Own Potting Soil

Mix-and-match potting mix Specialized potting mixes Plant potting tips

Tomato Madness

Growing tomatoes Battling birds and squirrels

Weeding Made Simple

Smother weeds out Mulch weeds out Plant weeds out Cut weeds out Cook weeds out Eat weeds out Spray weeds out Boil weeds out Salt weeds out Water weeds out Kill weeds before they emerge Watch that compost—you may be planting weeds!

Tools that Make Work Easy

Rules for picking the right garden tools Cleaning tools Free or almost-free tools that work

Chapter 6: Wildlife Loves an Organic Garden

Butterfly Gardening, or Attracting Flying Flowers

Making a good butterfly garden A butterfly’s metamorphic life cycle Butterfly food requirements Are butterflies ever harmful to your garden? Common butterflies you’ll find in your garden

Animals in the Garden

Basic habitat plan

Birds

A little bird biology Bird behavior The spoken language—bird songs Common plants birds love for food What to feed your favorite backyard birds Protect your feeder from pests and predators

Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals

Amphibians Reptiles Mammals

Wildlife Behaviors, or “Talking to the Animals” When Wildlife Become Pests

Birds Cats Deer Dogs Gophers Groundhogs Rabbits Raccoons Rodents Skunks Snakes Tree squirrels

Glossary Bibliography Buying Guide Organizations

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