Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden

Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm.

Best-selling author Mary Horsfall explores how our harsh climate can impact gardens, including the effects of bushfires, floods, frost, storms and heatwaves. She also addresses various pests from possums, snails and caterpillars to fungal problems and weeds.

With an emphasis on environmentally friendly strategies and simple advice, this highly illustrated guide will provide tactics for gardeners repairing recent damage or tackling prolonged neglect. Regardless of your garden’s size or location, this book should be part of your gardening toolkit.

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Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden

Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm.

Best-selling author Mary Horsfall explores how our harsh climate can impact gardens, including the effects of bushfires, floods, frost, storms and heatwaves. She also addresses various pests from possums, snails and caterpillars to fungal problems and weeds.

With an emphasis on environmentally friendly strategies and simple advice, this highly illustrated guide will provide tactics for gardeners repairing recent damage or tackling prolonged neglect. Regardless of your garden’s size or location, this book should be part of your gardening toolkit.

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Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden

Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden

by Mary Horsfall
Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden

Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden

by Mary Horsfall

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Overview

Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm.

Best-selling author Mary Horsfall explores how our harsh climate can impact gardens, including the effects of bushfires, floods, frost, storms and heatwaves. She also addresses various pests from possums, snails and caterpillars to fungal problems and weeds.

With an emphasis on environmentally friendly strategies and simple advice, this highly illustrated guide will provide tactics for gardeners repairing recent damage or tackling prolonged neglect. Regardless of your garden’s size or location, this book should be part of your gardening toolkit.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781486300020
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Publication date: 11/05/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 56 MB
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About the Author

Mary Horsfall has over 30 years experience in organic gardening, including 23 years growing self-sufficiency food crops organically in a dry-summer environment with only dam and tank water. Mary is an editor and writer for Grass Roots magazine, where she has worked for 18 years. Mary also wrote Creating Your Eco-friendly Garden and Fabulous Food from Every Small Garden.

Table of Contents

Part One: Preparation prevents problems
Chapter 1: Changing times
Chapter 2: Start with the soil
Chapter 3: Choose plants that suit the spot
Chapter 4: Drought-proofing your garden

Part Two: Rescue rollout
Chapter 5: Testing times
Chapter 6: Weather extremes
Chapter 7: Bushfire
Chapter 8: When pests proliferate
Chapter 9: Fungal problems and plant diseases
Chapter 10: What about the weeds?
Chapter 11: Gardens to the rescue

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