Garden Detective is aimed at amateur growers and allotment holders but it will also be useful to the nursery and horticultural industry, including smallholders.What does it offer?
The Garden Detective CD (for IBM-compatible PCs) contains more than 1,200 high quality photographs and line drawings of pests, diseases and weeds and on beneficial species found on over 50 fruit & vegetable crops in the garden. The CD makes it easy to narrow down to the cause of a problem and details the various methods available to solve it.
It covers:
insect pests
slugs and snails
vertebrate pests
nematodes
fungal diseases
bacterial diseases
viruses
weeds
beneficial species
Chemical and non-chemical pest control methods (including the use of biological control agents) are described. The CD is therefore useful for organic and non-organic growers. Pesticides are listed by their active ingredients, not their trade names, as trade names will vary according to where they are purchased. All the chemicals listed are approved under current legislation for use in home gardens, and guidance is given on how to choose the right product.
Users of Garden Detective can download updated control data from the web when new information becomes available.
Author(s):
Publisher: British Crop Protection Council
ISBN: 1 901396 32 0
Year of publication: 2003
Format: CD Rom
Size:
Age range: Post 16
Subject(s):
Order from: BCPC Bookshop
Address: Bear Farm, Binfield, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 5QE
Tel. No.: 0870 242 1067
Fax:
Email: gardendetective@bcpc.org
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Price: £20.00
