Diseases and pests in the organic vegetable garden: Prevent, identify, treat... without chemical products!

Preventing the arrival of pests and diseases means taking care of your soil, adopting good farming techniques to discourage pests and diseases (companion planting, crop rotation, weed control...), and enhancing natural regulation by preserving biodiversity in the garden...

Identifying the culprits, if attacks still occur, means observing and recognizing specific or non-specific diseases and pests affecting more than 40 vegetable species.

Finally, if necessary, treating becomes possible thanks to a range of non-chemical care devices, from essential oils to insect-proof nets, through various traps, natural insecticides, barriers, repellents, plant-based preparations, biological control...

This is what you will learn in this practical and richly illustrated book (over 400 visuals), a reference tool for alternatives to chemical pesticides, the use of which, increasingly regulated, is prohibited from 2019 for private individuals.