Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach: Natural Solutions for Better Gardens & Yards

by Elizabeth Murphy Narrated by Luzma Ortiz

Overview

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
• Increasing overall garden productivity

With a detailed discussion 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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Libraries that don't already own Keith Reid's Improving Your Soil or Elizabeth Stell's Secrets to Great Soil will want to snap up this book for their green-thumb patrons.—LJ Xpress Reviews

In her book, Murphy shows you how to recognize healthy soils, then offers a series of easy steps to help you get your own soil under control. And she covers all the bases: mulching, compost, weeds, fertilizers, organic matter, water, cover crops, you name it.—Garden Design Online

Murphy has compiled decades of research and real-life experience into a new go-to resource, Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach, a hands-on guidebook designed specifically for home gardeners. In her first book, Murphy breaks some new ground in making soil building - and understanding - much simpler.—Sacramento Bee

Even for experienced gardeners there is plenty to learn from this handy book.—SEEDS Magazine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175149631
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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