{"id":1960,"date":"2014-12-03T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-93\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T08:01:34","slug":"garden-tip-93","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reference book is available to help gardeners solve pest problems.  <em>Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest Management Guide<\/em> (University of California, $42.00) diagnoses common diseases, insects and environmental stresses with color photos and suggests appropriate solutions.  This book also has a chapter on how to get your plants off to a healthy start with proper planting techniques. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe Integrated Pest Management approach tell us the most important fact to remember  about plant problems is that poor growing conditions like soggy roots or bone-dry roots inevitably leads to pests and diseases.  Select the right plant for the garden conditions to avoid problems later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reference book is available to help gardeners solve pest problems. Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest Management Guide (University of California, $42.00) diagnoses common diseases, insects and environmental stresses with color photos and suggests appropriate solutions. This book also has a chapter on how to get your plants off to a healthy start with proper planting techniques. The Integrated Pest Management approach tell us the most important fact to remember about plant problems is that poor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-93\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #93<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[156,139,205,204],"class_list":["post-1960","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-integrated-pest-management","keyword-reference-books","keyword-trees-diseases-and-pests","keyword-woody-plants-diseases-and-pests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}