START with the SOIL; tHe Organic Gardener`s Guide to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-Care Garden. *

GERSHUNY, Grace

ISBN 10: 0875969607 / ISBN 13: 9780875969602

Published by RODALE PRESS, * * * * *, 1997

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BooK: FinE/ $86.12 0875969607 START with the SOIL; tHe Organic Gardener`s Guide to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-Care Garden. * GERSHUNY, Grace RODALE PRESS 1997 1St Edition, 1sT Printing Pale Yellow Spine With Title In Faded Orange Letters, Tall Soft Cover BooK: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 274 Numbered Pages That Appear To Be Lightly Read, And In Fine/ Condition, Are Clean And Tight To The Spine. Printed On Off White Paper. SYNOPSIS, ?complete guide to understanding and improving the soil shows how to begin the process with easy-to-find organic materials. Includes testing soil, making compost, what plants to grow where, container gardening, how to tailor soil to fit the needs of individual plants, and much more. 75 illustrations?. Removable Supplemental Bar Code Sticker On The Rear Cover. Description Applies To This BooK, ONLY. This BooK Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. World Wide Shipping, Available.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: START with the SOIL; tHe Organic Gardener`s Guide to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-Care Garden. *
• Publisher: RODALE PRESS, * * * * *
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875969607
• ISBN 13: 9780875969602
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: RODALE PRESS. BooK: FinE/ 1997
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Describes the composition of good garden soil, stresses the need for humus, and offers advice on solving soil problems for vegetables, flowers, lawns, trees, and container gardens

From Publishers Weekly

Good things begin with good foundations, and so gardeners need instruction in soil maintenance. Yet this book is meant mainly for the super-serious gardener who won't mind wading through a volume that addresses soil in such detail that perhaps only a farmer would need to know it, and does so in words more appropriate for readers of an agricultural journal than for the general public. But the information is all here, in a remarkably thorough discussion that ranges from producing good general soil with humus and compost to strategies of soil chemistry and fertility, as well as covering particular issues of "problem" soils and the special needs of vegetables, flowers, lawns, trees and potted plants. Gershuny brings together some fascinating and practical material--about soil mixtures that will heighten color and aroma in flowers and increase production in plants bearing fruit, nuts and berries; a listing of the amazing arrays of manures and what they can accomplish; and the surprising materials that can serve as compost. These important points of entry to the book, however, are not so easy to find in the mass of information. Still, the charts and illustrations are wonderfully useful, and may alone be worth the price of the book. Illustrations not seen by PW .
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