Teaming with Nutrients

Teaming with Nutrients

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  • Author: Jeff Lowenfels
  • Publisher: Timber Press
  • ISBN: 1604693142
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

A 2014 Garden Writers Association Media Award Winner Just as he demystified the soil food web in his ground-breaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective. Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed but know little or nothing about the nature of the nutrients and the mechanisms involved. In his trademark down-to-earth, style, Lowenfels explains the role of both macronutrients and micronutrients and shows gardeners how to provide these essentials through organic, easy-to-follow techniques. Along the way, Lowenfels gives the reader easy-to-grasp lessons in the biology, chemistry, and botany needed to understand how nutrients get into the plant and what they do once they’re inside.


Teaming with Microbes

Teaming with Microbes

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  • Author: Wayne Lewis
  • Publisher: Timber Press
  • ISBN: 1604692545
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

Healthy soil teems with life—not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. Chemical fertilizers injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and the soil becomes increasingly dependent on artificial, often toxic, substances. But there is an alternative: by strengthening the soil food web—the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms—gardeners can create a nurturing environment for plants. Teaming with Microbes extols the benefits of cultivating the soil food web. It clearly explains the activities and organisms that make up the web, and explains how gardeners can cultivate the life of the soil through the use of compost, mulches, and compost tea. With Jeff Lowenfels’ help, everyone—from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants—can create rich, nurturing, living soil.


Teaming with Fungi

Teaming with Fungi

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  • Author: Jeff Lowenfels
  • Publisher: Timber Press
  • ISBN: 1604697296
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 173

From the bestselling author of Teaming with Microbes and Teaming with Nutrients Teaming with Fungi is an important guide to mycorrhizae and the role they play in agriculture, horticulture, and hydroponics. Almost every plant in a garden forms a relationship with fungi, and many plants would not exist without their fungal partners. By better understanding this relationship, gardeners can take advantage of the benefits of fungi, which include an increased uptake in nutrients, resistance to drought, earlier fruiting, and more. Learn how the fungi interact with plants and how to best to employ them in your home garden.


Teaming with Bacteria

Teaming with Bacteria

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  • Author: Jeff Lowenfels
  • Publisher: Timber Press
  • ISBN: 9781643261393
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In Teaming with Microbes, Jeff Lowenfels revealed the fascinating facts around the soil food web, all the tiny organisms that live in soil and aid a plants growth. In Teaming with Nutrients, he explored how those organisms aid in the uptake of nutrients. And in Teaming with Fungi, he detailed the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi—the most important organism living in the soil. In his new book Teaming with Bacteria, Lowenfels digs into the new science behind how endophytic bacteria supply nutrients to a large array of plants and explains, in accessible language, how this information applies to home gardeners, small-scale farmers, and cannabis growers. Based on cutting-edge science that will help gardeners increase plant health and productivity, Teaming with Bacteria is a must-have addition to every organic gardener’s library.


How to Grow World Record Tomatoes

How to Grow World Record Tomatoes

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  • Author: Charles H. Wilber
  • Publisher: Acres U.S.A.
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Organic gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 148

Guinness world record holder Charles Wilber reveals for the first time how he grows record-breaking tomatoes without chemicals.


Crop Planning for Vegetable Growers

Crop Planning for Vegetable Growers

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  • Author: Frédéric Thériault
  • Publisher: Acres USA
  • ISBN: 9780980898712
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : fr
  • Pages : 136


The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments

The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments

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  • Author: Nigel Palmer
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
  • ISBN: 1603589880
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

Revitalize your garden—and go beyond compost—by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost! In The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments, experimental gardener and author Nigel Palmer provides practical, detailed instructions that are accessible to every grower who wants to achieve a truly sustainable garden ecosystem—all while enjoying better results at a fraction of the cost of commercial fertilizer products. These recipes go beyond fertilizer replacement, resulting in greater soil biological activity and mineral availability. They also increase pest and disease resistance, yields, and nutrient density. Recipes include: Extracting nutrients from plant residues using simple rainwater techniques Extracting minerals from bones and shells using vinegar Fermenting plant juices and fish Culturing indigenous microorganisms (IMO) Inspired by the work of many innovative traditional agricultural pioneers, especially Cho Ju-Young (founder of the Korean Natural Farming method), The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments also includes a primer on plant-soil interaction, instructions for conducting a soil test, and guidance on compost, cover cropping, mulching, measuring the quality of fruits and vegetables using a refractometer, and other aspects of sustainable gardening—making it a must-have resource for any serious grower.


The Intelligent Gardener

The Intelligent Gardener

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  • Author: Steve Solomon
  • Publisher: New Society Publishers
  • ISBN: 0865717184
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339

Presents advice on how to improve growing soil, discussing some of the current misconceptions about soil and providing the best methods for adding enhancements that will produce nutrient-dense foods.


Teaming with Nutrients

Teaming with Nutrients

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  • Author: Jeff Lowenfels
  • Publisher: Timber Press
  • ISBN: 160469517X
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

​“Gets deep into the weeds, so to speak, of the microscopic architecture of plants and the biochemical processes at play.” —Washington Post Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed, but many of us know little about the nature of the science involved. In Teaming with Nutrients, Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective. In his trademark down-to-earth, style, Lowenfels explains the role of both macronutrients and micronutrients and shows gardeners how to provide these essentials through organic, easy-to-follow techniques. Along the way, Lowenfels provides easy-to-grasp lessons in the biology, chemistry, and botany needed to understand how nutrients get into the plant and what they do once they’re inside.


Grow Your Soil!

Grow Your Soil!

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  • Author: Diane Miessler
  • Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
  • ISBN: 1635862078
  • Category : Gardening
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

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’s 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.