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Are you sick and tired of pesky insects in your garden? Do you want to stay away from pesticides and harmful poisons that could be hazardous to your health and your garden? If you answered yes to both of those questions, The Naturally Bug-Free Garden has all the answers to your troubles.This book will show you how to bring your garden ecosystem into balance so that beneficial insects and larger animals do the work of pest control for you.Anna Hess has had seven years of experience growing all of her family's vegetables. Here, she sums up all of her knowledge and expertise, teaching you many hands-on pest-control techniques, such as succession planting, choosing resistant plant varieties, and shielding plants with row covers. Paying attention to the nutritional needs of your vegetables can also deter pests, and the remaining insects are simple to handpick.
About the Author
Anna Hess is a homesteader, writer, and blogger whose first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours leftover from a full-time job. Her complete works include:Homesteading:The Weekend Homesteader (available as a paperback, complete ebook, or monthly ebooks) Trailersteading (available as a paperback and as an ebook) Growing into a Farm (ebook only) Microbusiness Independence (ebook only) Low-Cost Sunroom (ebook only) $10 Root Cellar (ebook only) Gardening:Homegrown Humus (available as a paperback and as an ebook) Bug-Free Organic Gardening (available as a paperback and as an ebook, formerly titled "The Naturally Bug-Free Garden") The Ultimate Guide to Soil (available as a paperback, complete ebook, or in four sections as "Personality Tests for Your Soil," "Small-Scale No-Till Gardening Basics," "Balancing Soil Nutrients and Acidity," and "Soil Amendments for the Organic Garden") Chickens:The Working Chicken (FREE ebook!) Incubation Handbook (ebook only) Pasture Basics (ebook only) Thrifty Chicken Breeds (ebook only) Eating the Working Chicken (ebook only) Or dive into a wealth of free information at www.WaldenEffect.org.
