Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach (eBook)

Natural Solutions for Better Gardens and Yards

Elizabeth Murphy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
200 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
978-1-62788-612-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil!

How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be your guide on gardening from the ground up! Fertilizing, tilling, weed management, and irrigation all affect the quality of your soil. Using author Elizabeth Murphy's detailed instructions, anyone can become a successful soil-based gardener, whether you want to start a garden from scratch or improve an existing garden.

If you want methods that won't break your back, are good for the environment, and create high-yielding and beautiful gardens of all shapes and sizes, this is the book for you! Create classic landscape gardens, grow a high-yielding orchard, nurture naturally beautiful lawns, raise your household veggies, or run a profitable farm. A soil-based approach allows you to see not just the plants, but the living system that grows them. Soil-building practices promote more ecologically friendly gardening by reducing fertilizer and pesticide use, sequestering greenhouse gases, and increasing overall garden productivity.

Building Soil is a simple book full of practical, up-to-date information about building healthy soils. Simple methods perfect for the home gardener's use put healthy, organic soil within everyone's reach. You don't need a degree in soil management to understand this book, you only need a yard or garden and the desire to improve it at the most basic level.

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A down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil. All the secrets to rich, sustainable soil are revealed to you. You'll be amazed how easy it is to improve your garden or yard when you begin at ground level. Even experienced gardeners can be intimidated by soil. It isn't just the soil-testing data and all the big words, like vermicompositing and mycorrhizal fungi. It's also the fact that when you begin to work with the soil, you're working with the very earth you grow in; you don't want to make any mistakes. But with Building Soil as your guide, you can achieve your goal of rich, sustainable soil without the fear. Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach is rich with practical, up-to-date information on how to grow and maintain healthy soils. Simple methods perfect for the home gardener's use put healthy, organic soil within everyone's reach. Because it's written in plain language, you don't need a degree in soil management to understand this book you only need a yard or garden and the desire to improve it at the most basic level. By following author Elizabeth Murphy's detailed instructions, you can become a successful soil-based gardener, whether you want to start a garden from scratch or improve an existing plot. - Less weeding & labor- Less water waste- 100% natural

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 143 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 190 x 190 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • all natural • Alternative • amending • amending soil • Amendment • Ash • At home • backyard • chemical free • Choice • clay • clay soil • coffee grounds • compacted • compacted soil • Comparison • cover crop • Dirt • diy how to make your own • Eco • ecosystem • eggshells • environmentally friendly • fewer • Foundation • Garden • Gardening • Green • ground up approach • growing edibles • growing from seed • Guano • Hard • hard soil • Health • higher • homemade • homesteading • IMPROVE • improve soil • increase yield • Landscape • lawn • less pesticide use • Living • Macronutrients • manure • meal • Microscopic • nitrogen • NPK • Nutrient Exchange • Nutrients • Nutrition • nutritionally rich • Orchard • organic • organic agriculture • organic soil • overworked • overworked soil • oyster shells • peat moss • permaculture • phosphorus • poor drainage • Potassium • Productivity • REDUCE • regenerative agriculture • regenerative organic agriculture • replenish • replenish soil • Restore • Sandy • sandy soil • Science • sequester greenhouse gasses • Soil • soilbased • soil-based gardening • soil with poor drainage • Sustainable living • TILLING • Urine • use less fertilizer • Vegetable • weed management • with poor drainage
• ISBN-10: 1-62788-612-5 / 1627886125
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62788-612-3 / 9781627886123