Reviews for The Garden Pests & Diseases Specialist: The Essential Guide to Identifying and Controlling Pests and Diseases of Ornamentals, Vegetables and Fruits

The average rating for The Garden Pests & Diseases Specialist: The Essential Guide to Identifying and Controlling Pests and Diseases of Ornamentals, Vegetables and Fruits based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-17 00:00:00 Suhair Humeid A good book for those who want some more science-based evidence that all those folk garden remedies and the ones circulating on the Internet really work. It gave me some new ideas and let me cross some others off the list.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-26 00:00:00 Alexander Carey 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.