Professional journalist Valentina Yuzhanina has published materials related to dacha topics for many years. Readers wrote letters and called the editor, and she, as an experienced worker, attracted various people as consultants. These were specialists in plant protection from pests and diseases, plant quarantine, agrochemists, seed growers, breeders, employees of the Department of Agro-Industrial Complex, and scientists from the Agricultural Academy. The co-authors were candidates of agricultural sciences Nadezhda Kotsareva and Viktor Shevchenko. All summer residents, gardeners, amateur gardeners from time to time face various problems and look for ways to eliminate them, because the yield and quality of the products they grow depend on this. In our book, owners of personal acres will find competent and understandable advice to everyone in response to their specific questions.