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  • Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach

  • Natural Solutions for Better Gardens & Yards
  • By: Elizabeth Murphy
  • Narrated by: Luzma Ortiz
  • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

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Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach

By: Elizabeth Murphy
Narrated by: Luzma Ortiz
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Publisher's Summary

This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil.

How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be your guide on gardening from the ground up. Fertilizing, tilling, weed management, and irrigation all affect the quality of your soil. Using author Elizabeth Murphy’s detailed instructions, anyone can become a successful soil-based gardener, whether you want to start a garden from scratch or improve an existing garden.

If you want methods that won’t break your back, are good for the environment, and create high-yielding and beautiful gardens of all shapes and sizes, this is the book for you! Create classic landscape gardens, grow a high-yielding orchard, nurture naturally beautiful lawns, raise your household veggies, or run a profitable farm.

A soil-based approach allows you to see not just the plants, but the living system that grows them. Soil-building practices promote more ecologically friendly gardening by:

  • Reducing fertilizer and pesticide use
  • Sequestering greenhouse gases
  • Increasing overall garden productivity

With a detailed discussion on a range of organic fertilizer choices, Building Soil is a simple book full of practical, up-to-date information about building healthy soils. Simple methods perfect for the home gardener’s use put healthy, organic soil within everyone’s reach. You don’t need a degree in soil management to understand this book; you only need a yard or garden and the desire to improve it at the most basic level.

©2015 Elizabeth Murphy (P)2022 Cool Springs Press

Critic Reviews

"Libraries that don't already own Keith Reid's Improving Your Soil or Elizabeth Stell's Secrets to Great Soil will want to snap up this book for their green-thumb patrons.—LJ Xpress Reviews

"In her book, Murphy shows you how to recognize healthy soils, then offers a series of easy steps to help you get your own soil under control. And she covers all the bases: mulching, compost, weeds, fertilizers, organic matter, water, cover crops, you name it.—Garden Design Online

"Murphy has compiled decades of research and real-life experience into a new go-to resource, Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach, a hands-on guidebook designed specifically for home gardeners. In her first book, Murphy breaks some new ground in making soil building - and understanding - much simpler.—Sacramento Bee

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