- Publisher: Kmečki glas
- 224 pages
- Author: Miša Pušenjak
- Original title: Naravno varstvo rastlin
Better to prevent than to spray.
Due to the increasingly variable weather and new high yielding varieties that are more susceptible to diseases, the protection of garden crops is becoming more and more important in healthy food production. All too often, gardening enthusiasts still use chemicals in their gardens. The first part of the manual focuses on protecting or strengthening plants and preventing diseases, while the second part deals with the natural protection of garden crops. The basic protective measures include crop rotation, mixed crops, the correct selection of varieties and the preparation of suitably airy and moist soil, suitable fertilisation, among others. Once problems have already appeared, the most important things are instructions on making homemade remedies or purchasing organic and biotic preparations and biostimulators suitable for individual families of garden crops. In the book you will find thoughtful answers to all the questions about problems that might plague you in the garden.
Miša Pušenjak
The author is an agronomist by education. She often points out that few people are so lucky as to combine their profession into a popular hobby. Additionally, she has gained extensive knowledge by working as a breeder at the Selection and Promotion Centre of Semenarna Ljubljana in Ptuj. There, she worked on 40 hectares of land, which represented a large garden. Her current job offers her even more joy, but above all the opportunity to expand her knowledge and learn new things. She is an agricultural adviser at the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia. At the Agricultural and Forestry Institute Maribor she works as a specialist in vegetable growing and arable farming. She is always in direct contact with professional vegetable growers who, despite the many obstacles, try to produce the freshest and healthiest vegetables possible in our country, even though they are not organic producers. The author’s main goal is to grow as many home-grown vegetables as possible in Slovenia. Moreover, she also offers advice to amateur gardeners, guiding them towards growing organic vegetables.
Her manuals, such as: Zelenjavni vrt (‘Vegetable Garden’), Moj ekovrt (‘My Eco Garden’), Vodnik po vrtu (‘The Garden Guide’), Rastlinjaki na vrtu (‘Greenhouses in the Garden’), Visoke grede in vrtički v posodah (‘Raised Beds and Container Gardens’), Zemlja – naše osnovno orodje (‘The Soil – Our Basic Tool’), Naravno varstvo vrtnin (‘Natural Protection of Vegetables’), Semenarstvo – kako pridelati kakovostno seme (‘Seed Production – How to Produce Quality Seed’), Vrtnarimo z Mišo Pušenjak (‘Gardening with Miša Pušenjak’) are all bestsellers that have been reprinted several times.
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