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Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition Hardcover - 2010
by Jeff Lowenfels; Wayne Lewis
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- Hardcover
Lowenfels and Lewis describe the activities of the organisms that make up the soil food web and explain how to cultivate the life of the soil. This text offers an accessible guide for gardeners who want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals.
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- Title Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition
- Author Jeff Lowenfels; Wayne Lewis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 220
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Timber Press, 1-41
- Date 2010-02-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # BKZN9781604691139
- ISBN 9781604691139 / 1604691131
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.25 x 1 in (23.50 x 15.88 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Soils, Soil ecology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010483176
- Dewey Decimal Code 631.4
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From the rear cover
Winner of the Garden Writers Association Gold Award for Best Book Writing Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life--not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web--the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language, the authors make the benefits of cultivating the soil food web available to a wide audience, from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals. This revised edition updates the original text and includes two completely new chapters--on mycorrhizae (beneficial associations fungi form with green-leaved plants) and archaea (singled-celled organisms once thought to be allied to bacteria).