Start with the Soil

By Grace Gershuny

Book Overview

"Charts & illustrations are wonderfully useful...."-Publishers Weekly This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875969607
• ISBN13: 9780875969602
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Understanding the process

An organic guide to developing and maintaining healthy soil, this book is organized in two parts. "Understanding Your Soil" explores the chemistry and underground wildlife. "Managing Your Soil" is the hands-on section. Chapters offer prescriptions for problem soils (inadequate drainage, slopes, hardpan, contamination) and catering to the needs of vegetables, flowers, lawns, trees and shrubs, container plants. While the second portion provides for immediate action, the first half is a readable discussion of the interactions of plants and soil. Gershuny shows how to recognize characteristics of your soil by observing weeds and plant growth, and enters the microscopic world of compost and humus. A valuable introduction to the world beneath our feet.