Month by month, this book is a trusted gardening friend that will help you plan, plant, and enjoy your garden. It's filled with the best ideas, nifty gadgets, and secret shortcuts from the editors and readers of Organic Gardening magazine. In this book you'll find: monthly zone-by-zone to-do lists of gardening tasks for lawns, landscapes, flower gardens, and food gardens; how-to instructions and illustrations for essential gardening tasks--composting, planting, pruning, harvesting, tool care, and garden cleanup; journal pages for your personal garden notes; special record-keeping pages, including a seek inventory and a pantry record; secrets of professional pest spotters, a problem-solving table for the least-wanted garden pests, 14 ways to negate slugs, a compendium of organic pest control techniques, plus even more!