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:
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Reducing fertilizer and pesticide use
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Sequestering greenhouse gases
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Increasing overall garden productivity
With a detailed discussion and comparison tables on a range of organic
fertilizer choices, 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.
