Pest Control & Balance

Pest Control & Balance

One of the greatest pleasures I have as a food growing besides harvesting and cooking is observation. Early morning walking around the garden and observing the interactions between insect’s spider’s, bees and birds. Something our ancestors did for thousands of years becoming their classroom.
By observing your garden you start to accumulate knowledge this may not come to the fore at that particular time but down the track you may be reading or thinking and you say yes and the dots start to connect as nature start to reveal itself to you.
I know food grown on soil that is moist and alive with microbes brimming with nutrients is far less susceptible to attack by pests than one that is in soil lacking things. I’ve observed it over and over again as the plant starts to age and has not been harvested at its peak the pests start to move in and attack.
• So the first line of defense against pests is to provide a soil environment the plant needs to be able to create its natural defenses
• Nature knows no pests and every pest in your garden also has a predator..............................................

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Growing Herbs, Fruit & Vegetables in a warm climate.
$10 Book contents Packed full of first hand knowlege, 24 Chapters include;

Chapter 1 Let's Get Started
How to set up and maintain your food garden, to ensure success

Chapter 2 Rotating Your Veggies
Why rotating your veggies works

Chapter 3 Pest Control & Balance
How to minimise the use of pesticides

Chapter 4 Soil Guide & Building Your Soil
Get to know your soil – you'll be glad you did

Chapter 5 Storing Seeds
Improve your success rate with properly store seeds Here's How

Chapter 6 Tastes Better Home Grown
Why is that?

Chapter 7 Green Manure / Beans
Maintain fertility like the ancient Romans

Chapter 8 Snake Beans Dwarf & Climbing
Great Addition to a tropical Garden

Chapter 9 Keeping Chickens
Why they're such an asset to your garden

Chapter 10 Okura
Easy to grow, not to mention the health benefits

Chapter 11 Soya Beans “Eda Mame”
Eaten the Japanese way taste great and good for you

Chapter 12 Paw Paw or Papaya
30 Kg of the nutritious you have to have one in your garden, this is how to grow it

Chapter 13 Capsicum in the tropics
There's nothing like watching capsicum fruit form in your garden pure joy

Chapter 15 Corn
Corn is easy when you know how

Chapter 16 PH Testing
How to measure your soil PH and what is PH

Chapter 17 Growing Bananas
Some great tip on the best backyard bananas

Chapter 18 Dolomite & Garden Lime
Which is best to use why and how

Chapter 19 Egg Plant
Grafting onto wild egg plant for extended growth

Chapter 20 Mignonette Lettuce
Open leaf lettuce like mignonette is the best lettuce for warm climates

Chapter 21 Growing Tomatoes From Garbage

Great tomatoes from garbage, learn how

Chapter 22 Growing Herbs in the tropics
Yes it's possible see what to grow and how

Chapter 23 Some Working Gardens
Some gardens from people who have a lot of experience, Italians, Greeks, and Bougainvillea.

Chapter 24 Take Out The Misery & Bring Back The Muck
A final word