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Can beer make plants grow? How about buttermilk? Or music—classical or rock? Are you sure about planting trees in deep holes? And how about chasing insects with hot sauce and stopping slugs with eggshells?
Whether in ancient books, on television, or in gardening publications, remedies for all your garden woes are here for the taking: the challenge is to know what will work and what won't.
Fearlessly conducting original experiments and harvesting wisdom from the scientific literature, horticulturalist Jeff Gillman assesses new and historic advice and reveals the how and why‚ and sometimes the why not‚ for more than 100 common and uncommon gardening practices. The results will surprise even experienced gardeners.
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Curtis Bottoms
reviewed The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why on May 28, 2014
The Truth About Garden Remedies
The slug and beer on the cover caught my attention. My neighbour bought me a beer to deal with my slug problem last year (for traps not for drinking), but I'd been too skeptical to try it out.
In this book, Jeff Gillman takes on this garden remedy (an many others) for a scientific showdown: Experiments including a number of subjects and a control group, or some good theorising based on other scientific studies.
It seems Gillman had a lot of fun between and scouring for strange and usual remedies and then trying them out. His humour sneaks up on you, while hammering his main point: Challenge yourself to think critically about what you're adding / doing to your plants. Also, for those remedies out there he didn't try - consider doing an experiment.
Definitely an interesting read for the gardener with science-nerd tendencies. The charts including the percentages of N,P,K in organic materials (along with their availibilty and acidity, Figure 3, page 55), pesticide active ingredients and their properties (Figure 10, page 173) and many more make it a reasonable reference for those who might not want to go the experimental route.
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