Posts Tagged ‘ Soil ’

Earthworms eat and burrow twenty-four hours a day! All of this tunneling aerates the soil (getting oxygen to the roots), allows for easier root growth, and improves water retention. Earthworms consume ordinary soil and cast it back with more nutrients available to plants. These “castings” release their nutrients slowly and do not leach out...
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Review “It takes readers underground to meet the critters that live if you let them under the garden.” (Virginian-Pilot )”All good gardeners know healthy plants start with healthy soil. But why? And how? In Teaming with Microbes Lowenfels and Lewis reveal the new research in the most practical and accessible way.”  (Kym Pokorny The...
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Simple explanations about how to add biology to any plant growing system makes this book easy-to-read for the general public. Guidelines for conventional, sustainable and organic applications — whether you are growing indoors in controlled environments and soilless media or outdoors in open fields of soil, this book helps you design your growing systems...
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