Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden.ELLEN SANDBECK Sandbeck and her husband have designed and cared for low-maintenance, organic gardens for 20 years. Here, she shares her best-loved, most useful tips for designing, planting, and nurturing such gardens. She emphasizes the importance of choosing the right plants for your climate and how to "vaccinate vac·ci·nate v. To inoculate with a vaccine in order to produce immunity to an infectious disease such as diphtheria or typhus. vac " your garden against disease by applying good compost. Her text is not only informative, but also clever, as she tells how to banish ban·ish tr.v. ban·ished, ban·ish·ing, ban·ish·es 1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile. 2. To drive away; expel: We banished all our doubts and fears. beetles beetles members of the insect order Coleoptera. They are common intermediate hosts for tapeworms. darkling beetles this and other mealworms are common inhabitants of poultry houses and are suspected of aiding in the transmission of with wheat bran and eradicate weeds with sunflower sunflower, any plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae (aster family), annual or perennial herbs native to the New World and common throughout the United States. seeds. Broadway, 2003, 196 p., b&w illus., paperback, $10.95. |
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