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You can pour your heart and soul into creating a beautiful garden for recreation and relaxation, only to have it ruined by a legion of bugs, weeds, diseases and mould. Using this handy compact guide from the team at Britain's best-selling gardening magazine, you can finally fight back - from initial prevention and protection for your plants and lawn, to spotting the early warning signs and knowing how best to act to save your garden from decay.
Using easy step-by-step guides and helpful tips from the experts at Gardeners' World, you can identify advanced problems and recognize the beginnings of a rot, and can learn the most efficient and eco-friendly ways of dealing with many of the issues that can plague a seemingly healthy plot. From coping with insect invasions and persistent weeds to halting widespread viruses and nurturing sickly plants, Gardeners' World: Pests and Diseases can help you to identify and understand problems, and give you the upper hand in the battle to protect your garden.
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There are two main reasons why this is. Firstly it's a book of two distinct halves, dealing with both good cultivation/prevention measures followed by identification and treatment once the pest or disease has struck. There's nothing wrong with this approach and I particularly like the various projects found in the former section, such as how to make your own sticky insect traps. However, I believe someone wanting to use this book is more likely to pick it up when they have a problem rather than starting out with good horticultural practice.
A number of common pests and diseases are featured, but this in turn highlights the second weakness: your problem isn't necessarily one of those featured and there aren't enough accompanying photographs to help with identification. Quite a few just rely on a description alone. This simply isn't good enough when you're encountering a problem for the first time.
Both organic and chemical treatments are given where applicable on the whole which is good , though I did notice the nematode treatment available for wine weevils wasn't mentioned which many of my gardening friends use as their treatment of choice.
It's a good introduction to the subject, but any keen gardener will probably move on quickly to other, more detailed volumes such as those produced by the RHS.
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