Pest and Disease Control

Deer Resistant Landscaping

by Neil Soderstrom
Finally, a book that covers a whole host of animals that can be pests in the garden, field, barn, or even in the home. While this book focuses on the challenges that deer can put to the home gardener, expert advice is also given on every animal from armadillos to bears. The book includes specific instructions on how to deal with beavers, chipmunks & squirrels, gophers & ground squirrels, rabits, porcupines, skunks, opossums, raccoons, rats & mice, moles, voles, and woodchucks! Learn to correctly identify the pest mammal, learn about its life cycles, and try to find humane and environmentally friendly ways of dealing with it. And learn when the experts need to be called in. This book includes a whole section on mammal-resistant plants, featuring over 1,000 species of flowers, shrubs, and trees.
7.5 x 9.25", 354 pages.

Deerproofing Your Yard and Garden

By Rhonda Massingham Hart
Dealing with unwanted deer is frustrating and challenging for even the most patient of gardeners and homeowners. Which repellents work, and which ones don’t? How long do they last? Which plants are truly deer-proof? What kinds of health risks do deer really pose? In this completely updated and revised edition of her popular book, Rhonda Massingham Hart shares the results of her research on deer behavior and food preferences, as well as her hands-on experience in successfully combating deer, from choosing the best fence to planting the most deer-detested plants. Deerproofing Your Yard and Garden is the best defense against unwanted deer, and an investment that is sure to pay off in protecting your landscape. 208 pages.

Garden Bugs of British Columbia

By Janice Elmhirst, Ken Fry, & Doug Macaulay.

Fully illustrated with photos and drawings of over 400 species of local insects, with an emphasis on gardening to attract the useful and beautiful ones, while repelling the worst pests. Surprisingly comprehensive and useful - and very good alue. By local B.C. authors, too!

224 pages.

Good Bug, Bad Bug

By Jessica Walliser
"Who's who, what they do, and how to manage them organically." This book is a great departure from the traditional insect field guides. Its durable, covered ring binding and thick stock makes it possible to carry into the garden with you to compare the bug on your plant to the bug in the detailed colour photo. Furthermore, the book is nicely divided between garden creatures that are definitely pests, and ones that are beneficial, and worth encouraging. Each entry includes a basic description, how to identifiy damage, which plants are typically attacked, biological controls, preventative actions, and organic product controls. In the beneficials section, Walliser covers a general description, life cycle, pests they control, and how to attract and keep them. We really liked this book as a useful garden tool, and the committed organic approach of the author wins extra credits. 92 pages.

Insects of the Pacific Northwest

by Peter Haggard & Judy Haggard.
With coverage from British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the high desert, this field guide describes more than 450 species of common, easily visible insects and some non-insect invertebrates, including beetles, butterflies and moths, dragonflies, grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas, flies, bees, wasps, ants, spiders, millipedes, snails and slugs. The more than 600 superb colour photographs, helpful visual keys, and clear colour-coded layout will make this book an invaluable resource for nature lovers and gardeners throughout the region. 296 pages.

Manage Insects on your Farm

By Miguel A. Altieri
While every farming system is unique, the principles of ecological pest management apply universally. Manage Insects on Your Farm highlights ecological strategies that improve your farm's natural defenses and encourage beneficial insects to attack your worst pests. Learn about the principles of ecologically based pest management and the strategies of farmers around the world to address insect problems. Minimize insect damage with wise soil management and identify beneficial insects to put these "good bugs" to work for you. Examples of successful pest management strategies sprinkled throughout the book will stimulate your imagination to address insect problems and develop a more complex, more diverse ecosystem on your farm. 128 pages.

The Organic Gardeners Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control

By Barbara W. Ellis & Fern Marshall Bradley.
Revised edition, with full instructions on organic techniques. A complete problem-solving guide to keeping your garden and yard healthy without chemicals. This book has terrific photos and text that help identify, prevent and cure plant problems. A thorough and easy-to-understand book that will make you the organic pest management expert in your neighbourhood. Good for both home and market gardeners. 408 pages.

West Coast Gardening Natural Insect and Disease Control

by Linda Giikeson.
This indispensible book for West Coast gardeners describes safe and effective ways to control pests in vegetables, fruit, lawns and ornamentals. Over 60 entries provide information on identification, life cycles, prevention and how to use non-toxic controls successfully. It also includes a guide to the least toxic pesticides, an extensive section on beneficial insects and how to attract them and a section on managing weeds in lawns and other areas. 154 pages

What's Wrong with My Vegetable Garden?

by David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth
More and more home gardeners are discovering the rewards of growing their own vegetables. But along with the pleasures of homegrown produce come a host of problems: bugs, diseases, and mysterious ailments that don't have an obvious cause. What's a gardener to do? Don't panic — help is at hand. What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? teaches you how to keep your vegetables healthy so they're less susceptible to attack, and when problems do occur, it shows you how to recognize the problem and find the right organic solution.
7.5 x 9.5", 252 pages