While most gardeners aren't blessed with ideal soil to start with, it is possible to improve almost any site. This guide provides clear and practical information on making compost, taking soil samples, all-organic methods of feeding plants, dealing with poor drainage, choosing and using mulches effectively, and more.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Taylor's Guides are the best, most authoritative guides on the market." Garden Design
About the Author
Barbara Ellis, a former gardening editor at Rodale Press and the publications director of the American Horticultural Society, is the author of many gardening books, including THE RODALE ALL-NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORGANIC GARDENING and THE BURPEE COMPLETE GARDENER as well as several TAYLOR'S WEEKEND GARDENING GUIDES. She resides in Alburtis, Pennsylvania.
Nancy J. Ondra owns a small specialty nursury in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. She is the editor of many Rodale gardening books and the author of three Taylor's Weekend Guides: Soil and Composting, Propagation, and Pests and Diseases. She resides in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not so Boring on a Boring Subject,
This review is from: Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Soil and Composting: The Complete Guide to Building Healthy, Fertile Soil (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin)) (Paperback)
This book is in the Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides series of books. Like most books in this series, it is easy to read and understand. While it touches upon some of the science behind why good soil is important, it doesn't bore the average gardener with laborious explanations. It quickly gets to what most gardeners want to know, that is what to do to improve your soil's quality and have healthier plants.Before you start a new garden it is important to understand the characteristics of your soil and what actions you need to take before you start planting. This book will provide the weekend gardener with all the guidance they need to build healthy soil in their garden. I highly recommend you read this book before you start planting your new garden.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Thinking Dirt,
By
This review is from: Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Soil and Composting: The Complete Guide to Building Healthy, Fertile Soil (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin)) (Paperback)
The copyright date makes this book seem long in the tooth, but some topics are constants and change little over the years.
"Soil and Composting" is about soil enrichment and the art of composting in about equal measures. After all, the whole point of composting is to enrich the soil to grow healthy plants. There's much to like about this composting and gardening guide. For the beginner are annotated photos and graphics as well as helpful charts dealing with compost, mulch, and plants. For the experienced grower are facts and figures that bear repetition and refreshing,little details that may have been buried in one's memory, and even some new ideas to incorporate into this year's growing season. I expected a book that dealt mostly with the science and art of composting, but certainly didn't mind the extra information that extends and elaborates the composting information in a practical and useful way. Had I read this book before purchasing a tumbling composter, I may have opted for the tried and true (and cheaper) instead. This is quite the helpful guide for a weekend gardener and a handy reference book that earns a reserved spot on one's bookcase.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Creating great garden soil isn't a big one-time chore, it's an ongoing process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
balanced garden fertilizer, own liquid fertilizer, compost tea, finished compost, using compost, adding organic matter, other organic matter, complete fertilizer, fish emulsion, shredded bark Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Making Compost Tea, Identifying the Problem, Other Strategies, Testing Your Soil's Fertility New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Creating great garden soil isn't a big one-time chore, it's an ongoing process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
balanced garden fertilizer, own liquid fertilizer, compost tea, finished compost, using compost, adding organic matter, other organic matter, complete fertilizer, fish emulsion, shredded bark Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Making Compost Tea, Identifying the Problem, Other Strategies, Testing Your Soil's Fertility New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 2
books:
- The Garden Path (Library of Garden Detail) by Patrick Taylor in Back Matter
- Kitchen Gardens (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide) by Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Back Matter
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
