Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone …
Presents a guide to cultivating and harvesting different types of lettuce and other green leafy vegetables.
by A.K. Singh, H.B. Singh, Manoj Parihar, Vijay Singh Meena, Amitava Rakshit
"Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, po…
In The Right-Size Flower Garden, Mendez shares her successful recipes for having a garden you can manage (and love) - for half the work. It's all about choosing high-value, low-maintenance plants and making simple design changes. Her practical tips, "plant this, not that" lists,…
"With step-by-step tutorials for every technique, unique annotated illustrations showing exactly where to make the cut, and detailed instructions for over 800 garden plants, this is the definitive practical guide.--Page [4] of cover.
This book is a compendium of information related to innovations, commercialization and registration of biopesticides, recent advances in mass production, formulation, extension of shelf life, delivery systems of antagonists and entomopathogens and synergistic and antagonistic re…
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
"This volume, Temperate Fruits: Production, Processing, and Marketing, presents the latest pomological research on the production, postharvest handling, processing and storage, and information on marketing for a selection of temperate fruits. These include apple, pear, quince, p…
This volume combines the author's two previous titles, (Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs, and Dirr's Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates) under one cover. It is fully updated with new plants, photography, and commentary. From evergreens to vines and flowering shrubs, this encycloped…
Created in response to requests from longtime users, this addition to the acclaimed reference to North American lichens compiles updated and expanded keys for the identification of these fascinating organisms. An ideal laboratory resource, it covers over 2,000 species of lichens…
Once known only to collectors, adolescent boys, and fans of the cult film The Little Shop of Horrors, carnivorous plants are poised to be the next big trend. They provide striking architectural style and can be grown indoors and in gardens. Carnivorous Plants is an accessible, s…
Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests…
