Garden Wildlife on Trial: Verdicts on the garden's friends and foes

This book provides information on how to encourage beneficial garden wildlife and deter harmful pests, covering over 50 common garden species and explaining their role in the ecosystem. It also offers advice on planting and cultivation, pesticide use, and dealing with pets.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 144 pages
\n Publication date: 29 April 2021
\n Publisher: Rydon Publishing
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Are the creatures that visit and live in your garden friends or foes? How can you discourage the bad and nurture the good? And how does each animal fit into the essential garden ecosystem?

You'll find the answers in the verdicts, evidence, and treatments presented in this innovative new book. Including more than 50 common garden residents - from squirrels to starlings, from ladybirds to leatherjackets, and from frogs to flea beetles - it tells you how to encourage the forces for good and explains how best to deter or get rid of (ideally organically) those that bring damage, disease, or even death to your precious plants. And vitally, it pieces together the key links in the garden food chain and shows how to maintain nature's delicate balance on your plot.

As well as the key gardening information you need, you'll discover here the extraordinary ways in which garden wildlife is adapted for success, how to encourage vital pollinators, and how to plan planting and cultivation to pre-empt problems. You'll see how to use pesticides safely if you must, and there are hints and tips on the best ways to deal with cats and dogs, chickens and geese in the garden.

So whether you want your garden to be a haven for hedgehogs and honeybees, to have fewer slugs and snails, or to be known all the pros and cons of crows and cabbage white caterpillars, then these are the verdicts you need. Garden Wildlife on Trial is the sequel and companion volume to Ruth Binney's successful Weeds on Trial published in 2019 (ISBN 9781910821299).

\n Weight: 204g\n
Dimension: 148 x 188 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781910821299\n \n