Les Antisèches de Terre vivante: Ravageurs & Maladies – Pocket Guide to Vegetable Garden Pests and Diseases (book in French)

Please note: this book is written in French.

Overview

The “Les Antisèches de Terre vivante” series brings together advice cards to slip into a pocket, hang on a nail or lay on the ground while you garden. This volume is devoted to vegetable garden pests and diseases: it helps you identify the problem, prevent it, then treat it with natural solutions compatible with an organic garden.

Each card has two sides. The front helps you recognise the most common diseases and pests. The back shows how to benefit from the help of garden beneficials and plants. The approach is preventive: first try to avoid problems, then step in gently when they are already there.

Contents

• 25 vegetable garden crops, with the main diseases that can affect them and the pests that attack them;
• 25 diseases and pests, with ways to treat them naturally in an organic vegetable garden;
• On the back: how to encourage beneficial organisms and use plants to protect crops;
• 4 additional themed cards.

Authors

A collective work published by Terre vivante, a French publisher specialising in organic gardening and practical ecology. Proofreading by Pascal Aspe.

Key features

• A practical pocket format, made to be taken out and used in the vegetable garden rather than kept on a bookshelf;
• One entry per vegetable and one per problem, to find the right answer quickly based on what you observe;
• Natural solutions, without synthetic products, suited to organic gardening;
• A strong focus on prevention and beneficial organisms, to limit interventions.

Who is this book for?

This guide is for French-reading amateur gardeners who grow an organic vegetable garden and want to react quickly when a disease or pest appears. It complements a more comprehensive reference book well, as it can be consulted in seconds, right on the spot.