indoor gardening the organic way indoor gardening the organic way How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants Julie Bawden-Davis Illustrations by Sabrina Rose Davis Photographs by Chas Metivier taylor trade publishing Lanham • New York • Boulder • Toronto • Plymouth, UK Copyright © 2007 by Julie Bawden-Davis First Taylor Trade Publishing edition 2007 This Taylor Trade Publishing paperback edition of Indoor Gardening the Organic Way is an original publication. It is published by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. Published by Taylor Trade Publishing An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bawden-Davis, Julie. Indoor gardening the organic way : how to create a natural and sustaining environment for your houseplants / Julie Bawden-Davis.—1st Taylor Trade Publishing ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-58979-293-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-58979-293-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Indoor gardening. 2. Organic gardening. I. Title. II. Title: How to create a natural and sustaining environment for your houseplants. SB419.B235 2007 635.9'65—dc22 2006021537 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America.