Download or read book Pacific Northwest Landscape Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Manual written by Van M. Bobbitt and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A healthy landscape demands knowledge of your plants' cultural needs, proper diagnosis of problems, thorough understanding of pest organisms, and careful consideration of your pest mgmt. options. Using this total approach, IPM reduces pesticide misuse and fertilizer overuse. This results in less nonpoint-source pollution from gardens and thus a cleaner, healthier environment. This illus. manual focuses on 19 key groups of woody landscape plants common in the Pacific Northwest. For those 19 key plant groups, it provides in-depth information. Each entry describes the plant's culture, common problems, life cycles of insect, mite, and disease organisms, nonchem. strategies for managing those problems, and biorational pesticide options (insecticidal soap, B.t., hort. oils).