Sustainable Gardening for Florida

Gardeners today face a unique challenge: how do you create a beautiful, thriving landscape without environmentally harmful fertilizers, pesticides, and water use? Sustainable Gardening for Florida might be the first place to look for answers. This book provides interesting, money-saving ideas to reduce your ecological footprint. It includes chapters on composting and mulching, integrated pest management, water-wise irrigation and rainwater harvesting, preparing your garden for disasters, and all aspects of managing meadows, lawns, trees and shrubs, edible gardens, rain gardens and waterfront gardening. Also includes a glossary and list of plants. 325 pp. Published by University Press of Florida. Half of all royalties from sales of this book will be paid directly to the Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.