Garden design & planning

Where there are people, there are weeds. And where there are weeds, people are trying to get rid of them. Knowing more about weeds helps us control them more effectively, but also allows us to put them to work for us as habitat, soil improvement, food and even medicine.

This study of the "dioscorea" genus or yam, consisting of 600 species, is a synthesis of new information. In this world of famine, the yam must play a leading role in the regions it is grown. Its cultivation may even increase once the problems which this book highlights have been resolved.