The Ultimate Guide to Soil

Name: The Ultimate Guide to Soil
Brand: NewSouth Books
SKU: 9781634507707
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The Real Dirt on Cultivating Crops, Compost, and a Healthier Home

By Anna Hess

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The Ultimate Guide to Soil by Anna Hess offers practical advice for gardeners and farmers aiming to maximise their soil's potential. Starting with a soil personality test, it guides you through revitalising poor soil and enhancing good earth. The book covers no-till gardening, nutrient balancing through remineralisation, and increasing organic matter via cover crops. An encyclopedic section details organic soil amendments, from common manures and mulches to bokashi compost, worm and black soldier fly larvae castings, and innovative materials like biochar and hugelkultur. It also addresses the safe use of urine and humanure around edible plants.
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Grow twice the fruits and vegetables in half the space on the farm, in the backyard, or in your window! The Ultimate Guide to Soil

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Grow twice the fruits and vegetables in half the space on the farm, in the backyard, or in your window!

The Ultimate Guide to Soil begins with a personality test for your soil, then uses that information to plan a course of action for revitalising poor soil and turning good dirt into great earth. Next, you'll learn to start and maintain a no-till garden, to balance nutrients with remineralisation, and to boost organic matter with easy cover crops.

Don't forget the encyclopaedic overview of organic soil amendments at the end. Old standbys like manures and mulches are explained in depth along with less common additions such as bokashi compost and castings from worms and black soldier fly larvae. Learn when hugelkultur, biochar, paper, and cardboard do and don't match your garden needs, then read about when and how to safely use urine and humanure around edible plantings.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781634507707

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Illustration: 100 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 699g

Pages: 296

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Anna Hess Home & Garden Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Anna Hess enjoys writing about her adventures both on her blog at WaldenEffect.org and in her books. Her first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours leftover from a full-time job. She lives with her husband in the mountains of southwest Virginia.