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Compost 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 Texas Gardening the Natural Way.
This book is the first complete, state-of-the-art organic gardening handbook for Texas. Using Howard Garrett's new mainstream gardening techniques, Texas Gardening the Natural Way presents a total gardening program:
How to plan, plant, and maintain beautiful landscapes without using chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides.
Gardening fundamentals: soils, landscape design, planting techniques, and maintenance practices.
Includes more native and adaptable varieties of garden and landscape plants than any other guide on the market.
Trees: 134 species of evergreens, berry- and fruit-bearing, flowering, yellow fall color, orange fall color, and red fall color.
Shrubs and specialty plants: 85 species for sun, shade, spring flowering, summer flowering, and treeform shrubs.
Ground covers and vines: 51 species for sun and shade.
Annuals and perennials: 136 species for fall color, winter color, summer color in shade and sun, and spring color. Also seeding rates for wildflowers.
Lawn grasses: 10 species for sun and shade, with additional information on 16 native grasses, seeding rates for 32 grasses, and suggested mowing heights.
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.
Common green manure crops: 29 crops that help enrich the soil.
Herbs: 66 species for culinary and medicinal uses.
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.
Plant diseases: organic treatments for 55 common problems.
Organic methods for repelling mice, rabbits, armadillos, beavers, cats, squirrels, and deer.
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.
Average first and last freeze dates for locations around the state.
Organic fertilizers and soil amendments: 61 varieties, including full instructions for making compost.
Organic pest control products: 30 varieties.
Common house plants and poisonous plants.
Instructions for climbing vegetable structures and bat houses.
833 gorgeous full-color photographs.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. TEXAS GARDENING FUNDAMENTALS
Advantages of Organic Gardening
Practical Landscape Design
Planting Techniques
Basic Organic Program
Synthetic versus Natural Fertilizers
Differences between Toxic Chemical and Organic Approaches
CHAPTER 2. TREES
Tree Planting--the Natural Way
Management of Trees
Easy Reference for Trees
The Trees
Worst Trees for Texas
CHAPTER 3. SHRUBS AND SPECIALTY PLANTS
Bed Prep
Easy Reference for Shrubs
The Plants
CHAPTER 4. GROUND COVERS AND VINES
Bed Prep
Easy Reference for Ground Covers and Vines
The Plants
CHAPTER 5. ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS
Bed Prep
Planting
Maintenance
Easy Reference for Annuals and Perennials
The Plants
Seeding Rates for Wildflowers
CHAPTER 6. TEXAS LAWNS
Bed Prep and Planting Techniques for Grasses
Maintenance of Grasses
Suggested Mowing Heights
Easy Reference for Grasses
Turf Grasses, Weeds, and So-Called Weeds
Texas Cover Crops
So-Called Weeds
Texas Native Grasses
Seeding Rates for Grasses
CHAPTER 7. FRUITS, NUTS, AND VEGETABLES
The Plants
Organic Pecan and Fruit Tree Program
Fruit Varieties for Texas
Grape and Pecan Varieties for Texas
How to Prune Fruits and Nuts
Structures for Climbing Vegetable Plants
Common Green Manure Crops
Vegetable Planting Chart
CHAPTER 8. HERBS
Bed Prep, Planting, Maintenance
The Plants
CHAPTER 9. PEST MANAGEMENT
Insects
The Bugs
Beneficial Insects: Habitats and Benefits
Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects
Beneficial Insect Release Schedule
Sources of Beneficial Bugs
Diseases and Other Ailments
Other Beasts in the Garden
CHAPTER 10. APPENDIX
Formulas
Gardening by the Moon
Average First Freeze Dates--Fall
Average Last Freeze Dates--Spring
Organic Fertilizers and Soil Amendments
Pest Control Products
House Plants
Poisonous Plants
