[EBOOK] Organic Gardening FOR DUMMIES, by Ann Whitman and Suzanne DeJohn (The Editors of the National Gardening Association)

This book is for people who want to grow food and maintain their landscape without using synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Organic gardening is more than just safe food, however, and It’s bigger than nontoxic lawns. Organic gardening is also about making conscious decisions and taking responsibility for actions that affect the world outside your back door, past the end of your driveway, and beyond the boundaries of your hometown.

Most people proudly admit to being environmentalists, but not everyone knows how to be a good steward of his or her own yard, let alone the entire planet. This book gets you started on the path to making healthier choices for your own garden and landscape.

About This Book

Organic gardening covers a lot of ground, so to speak — from maintaining a lawn and growing roses to harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables. If you’ve read this far, you must be curious about how to garden organically In your own yard. This book takes you step by step through building and maintaining healthy soil encouraging helpful insects and other organisms, choosing problem-free plants, and getting your plants off to the right start. In addition to the basic concepts of organic gardening, it also includes information about how to grow vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees and shrubs, fruits and nuts, roses, and lawns — without harmful pesticides or synthetic chemical fertilizers.

Conventions Used in This Book

When 1 refer to plant hardiness — a plant’s ability to survive the winter extremes — I use the u.s. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which you can find in Chapter 3. All temperatures are given in degrees Fahrenheit and measurements in feet or inches.

A lowercase AT In a species name Indicates a hybrid cross, c. X laveltei, for example, indicates the Lavalle hawthorn, a variety of Hawthorn (Crataegus species).

When I refer to a local extension office, I’m referring to government- or university-sponsored services that offer helpful information on gardening. Look under “Extension office" or “Cooperative extension service" in the phone book. The name of the extension office may also be preceded by the name of your local land-grant college, such as “Ohio State University."

Following are a few more conventions, designed to help you navigate your way through the content:

Italic Is used for emphasis and to highlight new words or terms that are defined.

Boldfaced text Is used to indicate the action part of numbered steps.

Mono fontis used for Web addresses.

What you’re Not to Read

Although we’d like to believe that you want to pore over every word between the two yellow covers, we know that you may be in a hurry or just want the basic Information. To help you out. we’ve made the “skippable” Information easy to recognize: It appears In sidebars or Is marked by a Technical Stuff Icon. While Interesting and related to the topic at hand, this information isn’t essential for you to know to have success as an organic gardener.

Footisfi Assumptions

In writing this book, I made some assumptions about you:

You want to create a safe, beautiful, and healthful place for your family to work and play.

You want to harvest the freshest, tastiest, and most nutritious fruits and vegetables possible.

You care about the environment and are looking for information that helps you care for your landscape in an ecologically sound way.

You've heard about organic gardening but you need more specifics and perhaps some convincing that it’s right for you.

Whether you come to this book in total gardening ignorance or have some experience under your fingernails, you’ll find plenty of hands-on, how-to information to make your organic garden and landscape the best ever.

Hold This Book Is Organized

To make navigating through this book easier, it’s divided Into parts. Each part contains chapters related to the part’s general topic.

Part I: Understanding the Basics of Organic Gardening

If you think you may want to become an organic gardener but aren’t sure what that entails, start with Chapter 1. I’ve provided enough scary statistics there to start you running down the path toward Chapters 2 and 3, which explain the basic concepts of organic gardening, from soil health to planning low-maintenance landscapes.

Part lI: Soil and Fertilizers

Healthy plants and gardens start with the soil. Turn to this part to get started on testing soil; making compost; and buying and using natural, organic fertilizers.

Part III: Managing Pests

Turn to this part whenever you spot trouble in paradise and need to know what It Is and what to do about it. Here you can find everything you need to know about insects, diseases, animal pests, and weeds, including specific control measures and products.

Part IV:

Growing Organically in your yard and Garden

The chapters in this part describe how to grow the most popular vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts, trees and shrubs, roses, flowers, bulbs, and lawns. In each chapter. 1 offer advice about how to get the best plants, how to plant and maintain them, and where to obtain more information.

Part V: The Part of Tens

Use the handy lists in this part to impress your friends at parties and win them over to an organic lifestyle. I’ve listed best organic practices and ten ways to have an eco-friendly home and landscape. Go spread the word!

Color photo section

The color plioto section near the center of this book shows you some organic gardening techniques you can apply right away. Rip to the photo section for colorful inspiration, examples of organic controls, and details that would be difficult to spot in black-and-white photos.

Where to Go front Here

This book is designed so that you can jump Into any chapter that grabs your attention. New to organic gardening? You probably want to start in Chapter 1. Interested in planting a vegetable garden? Go to Chapter 13. If you don’t know where to start, thumb through until something catches your eye, head to the Table of Content for general topics, or go to the index for specific topics.

[EBOOK] Organic Gardening FOR DUMMIES, by Ann Whitman and Suzanne DeJohn (The Editors of the National Gardening Association)

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