Grow Your Soil!

Name: Grow Your Soil!
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781635862072
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Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever

By Diane Miessler

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Grow Your Soil! by Diane Miessler explores the significance of soil health for gardeners, emphasising how thriving plants depend on rich, living soil. The author, a certified permaculture designer, shares accessible techniques like cover cropping, mulching, and a special compost tea recipe to cultivate vibrant soil without tilling or synthetic fertilisers. Drawing on her own experience transforming a neglected roadside into a stunning garden, Miessler offers a practical guide for backyard growers to enrich their soil naturally.
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This book is ideal for home gardeners interested in sustainable soil care and permaculture principles. It suits readers seeking practical, science-backed advice on building healthy soil ecosystems without chemicals. Beginners and experienced gardeners looking for organic methods to improve their garden soil will find it especially helpful.

The key to success for every gardening venture is rich soil. Achieving that basic building block is easy with this accessible soil improvement guide, which offers a broad understanding of the science of soil’s microbial life in an engaging, entertaining style.

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Growing awareness of the importance of soil health means that microbes are on the minds of even the most casual gardeners. After all, anyone who has ever attempted to plant a thriving patch of flowers or vegetables knows that what you grow is only as good as the soil you grow it in.

It is possible to create and maintain rich, dark, crumbly soil that is teeming with life, using very few inputs and a no-till, no-fertilizer approach. Certified permaculture designer and lifelong gardener Diane Miessler presents the science of soil health in an engaging, entertaining voice geared for the backyard grower.

She shares the techniques she has used—including cover crops, constant mulching, and a simple-but-supercharged recipe for compost tea—to transform her own landscape from a roadside dump for broken asphalt to a garden that stops traffic, starting from the ground up.

Grow Your Soil! offers an insightful guide for anyone looking to improve their garden's vitality by understanding and enhancing the health of their soil.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635862072

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 February 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Two-color; illustrations throughout

Contributors:

Foreword by Elaine R. Ingham

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 324g

Pages: 176

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Diane Miessler Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

Diane Miessler is the author of Grow Your Soil! She is a certified permaculture designer, a soil science enthusiast, and a gardener with more than 50 years of experience. She has a monthly column in The Union, a newspaper that serves Nevada County, California.Dr. Elaine Ingham discovered the soil food web nearly 4 decades ago and has been pioneering research ever since. Widely recognized as the world s foremost soil biologist, she s passionate about empowering ordinary people to bring the soils in their community back to life.