{"product_id":"texas-gardening-the-natural-way-the-complete-handbook-hardcover","title":"Texas Gardening the Natural Way: The Complete Handbook - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward Garrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 Texas Gardening the Natural Way.\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, Texas Gardening the Natural Way presents a total gardening program: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHow to plan, plant, and maintain\u003c\/b\u003e beautiful landscapes without using chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGardening fundamentals\u003c\/b\u003e: soils, landscape design, planting techniques, and maintenance practices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIncludes more native and adaptable varieties of garden and landscape plants\u003c\/b\u003e than any other guide on the market.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTrees\u003c\/b\u003e: 134 species of evergreens, berry- and fruit-bearing, flowering, yellow fall color, orange fall color, and red fall color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eShrubs and specialty plants\u003c\/b\u003e: 85 species for sun, shade, spring flowering, summer flowering, and treeform shrubs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGround covers and vines\u003c\/b\u003e: 51 species for sun and shade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnnuals and perennials\u003c\/b\u003e: 136 species for fall color, winter color, summer color in shade and sun, and spring color. Also seeding rates for wildflowers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLawn grasses\u003c\/b\u003e: 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\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFruits, nuts, and vegetables\u003c\/b\u003e: 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\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCommon green manure crops\u003c\/b\u003e: 29 crops that help enrich the soil.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHerbs\u003c\/b\u003e: 66 species for culinary and medicinal uses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBugs\u003c\/b\u003e: 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\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePlant diseases\u003c\/b\u003e: organic treatments for 55 common problems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOrganic methods for repelling\u003c\/b\u003e mice, rabbits, armadillos, beavers, cats, squirrels, and deer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOrganic management practices\u003c\/b\u003e: 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\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAverage first and last freeze dates\u003c\/b\u003e for locations around the state.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOrganic fertilizers and soil amendments\u003c\/b\u003e: 61 varieties, including full instructions for making compost.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOrganic pest control products\u003c\/b\u003e: 30 varieties.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCommon house plants and poisonous plants\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInstructions for climbing vegetable structures and bat houses\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e833 gorgeous full-color photographs\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Garrett is a landscape architect, certified arborist, horticulturist, and organic practitioner in Dallas, Texas. He promotes his organic gardening program, \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Way, \u003c\/i\u003e through his WBAP radio and Channel 8 TV shows, weekly column in the \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News, \u003c\/i\u003e monthly \u003ci\u003eDirt Doctor's Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eThe Organic Manual: Natural Gardening for the 21st Century, \u003c\/i\u003e and regional and national speaking engagements. His previous UT Press books are \u003ci\u003eHoward Garrett's Plants for Texas, Dear Dirt Doctor: Questions Answered the Natural Way, Herbs for Texas\u003c\/i\u003e (with Odena Brannan), \u003ci\u003eTexas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\u003c\/i\u003e (with C. 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