Compost Spreader

Ecological Landscape Design and Organic Lawn Care
by Chip Phelan

An overview of environmentally sound ideas for backyard landscape design and organic lawn care considerations.

There is a growing recognition, that the expanding suburban landscape is having a negative environmental impact. Suburban development often includes vast energy dependant monocultures (perfect, grass lawns). They consume a significant amount of natural resources, (water to keep them green and gasoline to keep them trimmed), and they reduce the amount of habitat available for native wildlife. Over use of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides can leach into water supplies and be harmful to children and pets. Trends toward ecological landscaping and organic lawn care are lessening the detrimental effects of these designs. Many landscape designers are recommending native plant species, and even golf course managers are moving toward organic methods. Read full text...

How to Grow Healthy Food
by Linda Paquette

Every year, gardeners spend thousands of dollars on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that are little more than a quick fix to gardening problems and create long-term health hazards for everyone. What Linda is getting at here is that organic gardening makes sense because when you garden organically you not only create healthy food but you also help to keep the earth free of toxins.  Read full text. 

Chicken Soup for the Soil
by Jean Fritz

Organic gardening requires more than seeds, sun and rain. Maintaining healthy soil is vital to growing healthy vegetables in your organic garden. Learn a few valuable tips for preparing your soil and watch your organic garden thrive.  Read full text. 

How to Lose Weight While Gardening
by Candee Stark

Are you interested in learning how you can turn your love of organic gardening into a way to lose weight? Not only will growing organic vegetables burn calories but it will provide you with healthful, low calorie food!  Read full text.  

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control : A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

An excellent handbook with entries for common fruits, flowering plants, vegetables, and trees. Each listing has information on disease and pest problems and tips on how to solve them without chemicals. Especially useful sections feature photos of garden insects and diseases.
Buy This Book