The author's suggestions for using common household products to controls pests of all types in the yard and garden.

Handy hints, timely tonics, and super solutions to turn your yard into a green garden paradise!

How to grow grass.

Master gardener Jerry Baker provides over 1,000 tips on growing vegetables from planning to harvest.

Lessons learned from Grandma Putt's kichen cupboard, medice cabinet, and garden shed.

Jerry shares is secrets on soil preparation, selection, fertilizing, pruning, composting, and weed and pest control. In addition, you get Jerry's list of favorite tried-and-true plants. You'll also learn about your favorite plant's soil, sun, and watering needs, along with its height, blossom color, and flowering time, all of which will make your garden planting a snap.

Master gardner Jerry Baker provides tips on growing flowers that include ideas on planning, selecting, planting and maintaining the contents of your garden.

117 foods that fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, memory loss, and hundreds of other health problems.

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.