{"product_id":"9781477310236","title":"Texas Gardening the Natural Way: The Complete Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompost your old \"complete\" gardening guide. There's a new way of gardening in Texas that's healthier for people and the environment, more effective at growing vigorous plants and reducing pests, cheaper to maintain, and just more fun. It's Howard Garrett's \"The Natural Way\" organic gardening program, and it's all here in \u003ccite\u003eTexas Gardening the Natural Way.\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first complete, state-of-the-art organic gardening handbook for Texas. Using Howard Garrett's new mainstream gardening techniques, \u003ccite\u003eTexas Gardening the Natural Way\u003c\/cite\u003e presents a total gardening program:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e How to plan, plant, and maintain beautiful landscapes without using chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Gardening fundamentals: soils, landscape design, planting techniques, and maintenance practices.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Includes more native and adaptable varieties of garden and landscape plants than any other guide on the market.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Trees: 134 species of evergreens, berry- and fruit-bearing, flowering, yellow fall color, orange fall color, and red fall color.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Shrubs and specialty plants: 85 species for sun, shade, spring flowering, summer flowering, and treeform shrubs.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Ground covers and vines: 51 species for sun and shade.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Annuals and perennials: 136 species for fall color, winter color, summer color in shade and sun, and spring color. Also seeding rates for wildflowers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Lawn grasses: 10 species for sun and shade, with additional information on 16 native grasses, seeding rates for 32 grasses, and suggested mowing heights.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Fruits, nuts, and vegetables: 58 species, with a vegetable planting chart and information on organic pecan and fruit tree growing, fruit varieties for Texas, grape and pecan varieties, and gardening by the moon.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Common green manure crops: 29 crops that help enrich the soil.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Herbs: 66 species for culinary and medicinal uses.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Bugs: 73 types of helpful and harmful bugs, with organic remedies for pests, lists of beneficial bugs and plants that attract them, a beneficial bug release schedule, and sources for beneficial bugs.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Plant diseases: organic treatments for 55 common problems.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Organic methods for repelling mice, rabbits, armadillos, beavers, cats, squirrels, and deer.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Organic management practices: watering, fertilizing, controlling weeds, releasing beneficial insects, biological controls (including bats and purple martins), and recipes for Garrett Juice, fire ant control drench, vinegar herbicide, Sick Tree Treatment, and Tree Trunk Goop.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Average first and last freeze dates for locations around the state.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Organic fertilizers and soil amendments: 61 varieties, including full instructions for making compost.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Organic pest control products: 30 varieties.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Common house plants and poisonous plants.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Instructions for climbing vegetable structures and bat houses.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e 833 gorgeous full-color photographs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032077091056,"sku":"9781477310236","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781477310236_p0.jpg?v=1763614136","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781477310236","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}