Improving Your Soil - Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-202

Create Fertile, Productive Soil, Anywhere!
Improving your soil both increases the yield of your garden and makes your garden easier to tend. With Improving Your Soil, you’ll learn the best way to improve the soil in your garden, including how to:
*Determine whether your garden soil is sandy, clay, or loam
*Identify the right time to work your soil
*Take a soil sample
*Balance pH
*Improve difficult soils, such as soggy, sandy, compacted, or shallow soils
*Use soil amendments
*And more!

List of contents

A Little Background Some Specifics
Simple Fixes

About the author

The late Stu Campbell lived and gardened in Stowe, Vermont. He was the author of Let It Rot!, a guide to home composting with over 340,000 copies in print; Mulch It!; and The Home Water Supply.

Summary

Create Fertile, Productive Soil, Anywhere!
Create fertile, productive soil for your garden! Improving your soil both increases your yield of vegetables and fruit and makes your garden easier to tend. With Improving Your Soil, you’ll learn the best ways to improve the soil in your garden.

Product details

• Authors: Stu Campbell, Campbell Stu
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.1999
• EAN: 9781580172233
• ISBN: 978-1-58017-223-3
• No. of pages: 32
• Illustrations: 5 1-2 x 8 1-2
• Series: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin; Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; GARDENING / Vegetables, GARDENING / Fruit, Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables, Gardening: fruit and vegetable