Know Your Garden: A Modern Guide to Pests, Predators and Balance

Stop guessing what's eating your plants. Start understanding your garden's ecosystem.

Found holes in your leaves and don't know what's causing them? You're not alone, and reaching for the nearest spray bottle usually isn't the answer.

Know Your Garden is a practical, no-nonsense guide that teaches you how to actually read what's happening in your garden before you react. Instead of treating every bug as the enemy, you'll learn to tell pests apart from predators, pollinators, and decomposers, so you stop accidentally killing the good guys.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Identify plant damage patterns and match them to the exact pest causing it
• Tell the difference between a real threat and a harmless visitor
• Understand why pests show up in your garden in the first place
• Use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to solve problems at the root, not just the symptoms
• Apply organic and low-toxicity control methods that actually work
• Know when (and how) to safely use chemical controls as a last resort
• Follow a season-by-season US pest management calendar
• Quickly identify common pests using the built-in Quick ID Guide
• Whether you're dealing with a mystery pest right now or just want to garden with more confidence, this guide gives you the tools to protect your plants without wrecking the ecosystem that supports them.

What's inside:

• 15 chapters | Instant PDF download | Written for beginner to intermediate home gardeners