Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Soil and Composting: The Complete Guide to Building Healthy, Fertile Soil

by Barbara W. Ellis, Barbara Ellis, Nancy J. Ondra

Book Overview

Explains how to improve soils for gardening, discussing mulches, fertilizers, making and using compost, and soil care for garden plants. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395862949
• ISBN13: 9780395862940
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Not so Boring on a Boring Subject

This book is in the Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides series of books. Like most books in this series, it is easy to read and understand. While it touches upon some of the science behind why good soil is important, it doesn't bore the average gardener with laborious explanations. It quickly gets to what most gardeners want to know, that is what to do to improve your soil's quality and have healthier plants.Before you start a new garden it is important to understand the characteristics of your soil and what actions you need to take before you start planting. This book will provide the weekend gardener with all the guidance they need to build healthy soil in their garden. I highly recommend you read this book before you start planting your new garden.