RODALE’S VEGETABLE GARDEN PROBLEM SOLVER: The Best and Latest Advice for Beating Pests, Diseases, and Weeds and Staying a Step Ahead of Trouble in the Garden, by Fern Marshall Bradley, Rodale, $19.95

An organic gardener, Fern Marshall Bradley is a freelance editor and writer of garden and nature books who studied gardening and horticulture at Cornell and Rutgers universities. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley region and manages a market garden on an organic farm in New Jersey.

Encyclopedic in style, information in this comprehensive, authoritative guide is simple and easy to find.

It is not divided into chapters. Instead, its table of contents lists more than 100 vegetables, diseases and blights alphabetically for easy reference.

Each entry follows a simple formula that includes five categories: Crop Basics, Secrets of Success, Regional Notes, Preventing Problems and Troubleshooting Problems.

Tips on blight and disease include information on fighting infection as well as preventing recurrences. Suggestions for dealing with pests, from aphids to woodchucks, are provided.

Concise and user-friendly, “Rodale’s Vegetable Garden Problem Solver” is a valuable go-to reference for those who want quick and easy facts at their fingertips.

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