Explains how to keep plants healthy and prevent disease, including using compost, covering the soil with mulch, and cleaning garden tools.

Discusses the life cycles of insects, diseases, and weeds, the plants they affect, and the latest organic controls to keep them in check.

The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and...

Offers hundreds of photographs to help identify common garden pests and diseases, and gives detailed advice on treatment, control, and prevention.