Resources available at the Botanical Garden

Through the Botanical Garden, the City of Montréal has all kinds of resources available on organic gardening. Check them out!

• Consult the Green Pages to find :
• fact sheets on insect pests and diseases
• home gardener’s checklists
• organic lawn care guide
• Come talk to our experts at the Garden's horticultural information counter
• Send in your questions by e-mail via our form
• Attend classes and workshops on ecological gardening offered by the Friends of the Botanical Garden. (Only in French)

Suggested reading

Franklin, Stuart. 1988
Building a Healthy Lawn: A Safe and Natural Approach. Vermont: Garden Way Publishing, 184 p.
COTE: 0866 F7.1

Gardener's Handbook, The - An Integrated Approach to Insect and Disease Control. Publication 64.
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Queen's Printer for Ontario, Toronto,
To obtain copies : http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/gardbk/ghtoc.html

Harris, Marjorie. 1991
Ecological Gardening: Your Path to a Healthy Garden. Toronto: Random House

Hill, Nancy and Lewis, George. 1995
Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening: Lawns, Grasses and Groundcovers. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press

Mollison, Bill. 1991
Introduction to Permaculture. Tagari Publications

Nancarrow, Loren and Taylor, Janet Hogan. 2000
Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions without Chemical Pollution. Ten Speed Press

Olkowski, W. 1996
Common Sense Pest Control - Least-toxic solutions for your home, garden, pets and community.
The Taunton Press. 715 p.

Pearman, Myrna and Pike, Ted. 2000
Nature Scape Alberta: Creating and caring for wildlife habitat at home. Red Deer River Naturalists / Federation of Alberta Naturalists

Rodale's Chemical-Free Lawn and Garden. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press

Rubin, Carol. 1989
How to get your lawn & garden off drugs: Pesticide-free gardening for a healthier environment. Ottawa: Friends of the Earth

Rubin, Carol. 2002
How to get your lawn off grass: A North American Guide to Turning Off the Water Tap and Going Native. Ottawa: Friends of the Earth

Schultz, Warren. 1989
The Chemical-Free Lawn. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press. 194 p.

Turfgrass Management Recommendations. Publication 384.
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Queen's Printer for Ontario, Toronto
To obtain copies : http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/pub384/p384order.htm

Wisconsin's Environmental Decade Institute. 1996
Great Lakes Great Lawns: A homeowners guide to growing lawns without pesticides. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin's Environmental Decade Institute