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It's easier than you think! Step away from the rototiller, stop digging, skip the fertilizers, and let microbes do the heavy lifting. Discover no-sweat soil-building steps like turning weeds into on-the-spot mulch, using cover crops and kitchen waste to feed and protect your soil food web, and brewing super-easy, super-charged compost tea to fend off soil pathogens. Then sit back, relax, and watch your garden thrive.
It's easier than you think! Step away from the rototiller, stop digging, skip the fertilizers, and let microbes do the heavy lifting. Discover no-sweat soil-building steps like turning weeds into on-the-spot mulch, using cover crops and kitchen waste to feed and protect your soil food web, and brewing super-easy, super-charged compost tea to fend off soil pathogens. Then sit back, relax, and watch your garden thrive.
Beauty, Magic & Tomatoes: Why I Garden, and How the Soil Food Web Helps
10 Suggestions for Creating Healthy, Living Soil
Making Soil: Building a "House"
1 The Skinny on Soil: What Makes Soil Good & How Does It Get That Way?
What Is Soil?
What Makes Good Soil Good?
What Good Is Good Soil?
2 Building a House: Start with the Roof (Mulch & Cover Crops)
Mulch
Cover Crops
3 Build the Walls: Organic Matter & the Soil Food Web That Sticks It Together
Soil Organic Matter
The Soil Food Web: A Gardener's Best Friend
Biodiversity 101: Microbes
Biodiversity 102: Algae, Bugs, Worms, and More
4 Install Ventilation, Plumbing & a Nice Pantry: No-Till Growing, Paths & CEC
Step Away from the Rototiller!
Make Paths
What Is CEC?
How to Increase CEC
5 Feed the Inhabitants: Photosynthesis, Minerals & Soil Testing
Photosynthesis: Empty but Necessary Calories
Macronutrients & Micronutrients
To Test or Not to Test
6 Compost and Compost Tea: It's Not Rocket Science
Benefits and Tools
Is It Compost or Is It Mulch?
How to Build a Compost Pile
Maintaining a Compost Pile: It Needs Your Love
When Is It Done?
Growing Pains
Fungally or Bacterially Dominated?
Worm Bins
Frequently Asked Questions, Answered
Compost Tea for a Non-Rocket Scientist with a Bucket
7 Where Do I Start? Building a Garden That Feeds Itself
Step 1: Pick a Spot
Step 2: Get Water to It
Step 3: Decide where You'll Walk
Step 4: Soften the Soil
Step 5: Pull Stuff Up, Throw Stuff Down
Step 6: Mulch
Step 7: Plant Stuff
8 Housework & Home Repairs: How Not to Make Your Neighbors Hate You
Maintenance = Mulch
Putter, Don't Work
Glossary
Bibliography
Metric Conversions
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Geologie |
| Genre: | Geowissenschaften |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 176 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781635862072 |
| ISBN-10: | 1635862078 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Miessler, Diane |
| Hersteller: | Workman Publishing |
| Maße: | 226 x 151 x 11 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Diane Miessler |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.02.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,292 kg |
Beauty, Magic & Tomatoes: Why I Garden, and How the Soil Food Web Helps
10 Suggestions for Creating Healthy, Living Soil
Making Soil: Building a "House"
1 The Skinny on Soil: What Makes Soil Good & How Does It Get That Way?
What Is Soil?
What Makes Good Soil Good?
What Good Is Good Soil?
2 Building a House: Start with the Roof (Mulch & Cover Crops)
Mulch
Cover Crops
3 Build the Walls: Organic Matter & the Soil Food Web That Sticks It Together
Soil Organic Matter
The Soil Food Web: A Gardener's Best Friend
Biodiversity 101: Microbes
Biodiversity 102: Algae, Bugs, Worms, and More
4 Install Ventilation, Plumbing & a Nice Pantry: No-Till Growing, Paths & CEC
Step Away from the Rototiller!
Make Paths
What Is CEC?
How to Increase CEC
5 Feed the Inhabitants: Photosynthesis, Minerals & Soil Testing
Photosynthesis: Empty but Necessary Calories
Macronutrients & Micronutrients
To Test or Not to Test
6 Compost and Compost Tea: It's Not Rocket Science
Benefits and Tools
Is It Compost or Is It Mulch?
How to Build a Compost Pile
Maintaining a Compost Pile: It Needs Your Love
When Is It Done?
Growing Pains
Fungally or Bacterially Dominated?
Worm Bins
Frequently Asked Questions, Answered
Compost Tea for a Non-Rocket Scientist with a Bucket
7 Where Do I Start? Building a Garden That Feeds Itself
Step 1: Pick a Spot
Step 2: Get Water to It
Step 3: Decide where You'll Walk
Step 4: Soften the Soil
Step 5: Pull Stuff Up, Throw Stuff Down
Step 6: Mulch
Step 7: Plant Stuff
8 Housework & Home Repairs: How Not to Make Your Neighbors Hate You
Maintenance = Mulch
Putter, Don't Work
Glossary
Bibliography
Metric Conversions
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Geologie |
| Genre: | Geowissenschaften |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 176 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781635862072 |
| ISBN-10: | 1635862078 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Miessler, Diane |
| Hersteller: | Workman Publishing |
| Maße: | 226 x 151 x 11 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Diane Miessler |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.02.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,292 kg |
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