Jerry Baker's Giant Book of Garden Solutions: 1,954 Natural Remedies to Handle Your Toughest Garden Problems (Jerry Baker Good Gardening series)
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ISBN: 0922433763 / Publisher: American Master Products, Inc., April 2006
Offers a collection of nearly two thousand simple and natural gardening tricks, along with recipes and quick fixes using common household products and ingenuity, such as fighting fungus with pantyhose and how to make homemade insect sprays, all without potentially harmful chemical additives.
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Common household products and down-home ingenuity are combined to combat frustrating garden problems in this indispensable handbook for both green thumbs and novice gardeners. Organized by garden area, 1,954 easy-to-use homemade remedy recipes?containing items such as beer, baby shampoo, and ammonia?instruct gardeners how to turn puny plants, wretched roots, and tired trees into gorgeous garden specimens without the use of store-bought chemical alternatives. Quick fixes are offered for fighting fungus with pantyhose, defeating botanical disease with peppermint, and bug-proofing vegetables with mustard and cloves; and obstacles such as heavy rains, nutritional plant deficiencies, and gardening on sloped areas are also discussed.
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