Start with Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden
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AlbakiReads Editorial Build a healthier garden from the soil upward
Build a healthier garden from the soil upward
Juliet Sargeant’s practical gardening guide puts soil at the center of decisions about planting, feeding, composting, and water management. It explains soil science in accessible terms, then moves into hands-on ways to assess soil at home and work with its seasonal changes. Coverage extends across garden settings and growing mediums, including vegetable beds, borders, houseplants, hydroponics, and sand gardens. Step-by-step projects, plant profiles, and troubleshooting pages support techniques such as compost-making, No Dig gardening, Hügelkultur, and rain gardens. The book also addresses climate change’s impact on soil health and the role plants can play in supporting it.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Gardeners who want to understand and test the soil in their own gardens
- Home growers seeking practical guidance on composting, soil care, and planting by soil type
- Readers interested in No Dig gardening, rain gardens, or alternative growing mediums
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Soil healthCompostingSustainable gardeningPlant–soil relationshipsClimate change and gardens
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Book Overview Transform your garden from the ground up with this practical guide to soil. Any thriving garden starts with good soil: whether you're gro...
Transform your garden from the ground up with this practical guide to soil.
Any thriving garden starts with good soil: whether you're growing vibrant herbaceous borders or bountiful vegetable beds. And while gardeners all appreciate the soil beneath their feet, many are still perplexed by how it works.
In Start with Soil, award-winning garden designer Juliet Sargeant challenges you to take your soil seriously, reveals its hidden wonders and gives you the tools to improve your soil health and harness its power.
- The science of soil is explained without the jargon: learn how soil works and how climate change is impacting its health.
- Get to know your own soil with easy at-home testing, explanations about how soil changes throughout the year, and quick-guides to the types of growing mediums we use in gardening - from composts to house plants, hydroponics to sand gardens.
- Follow Juliet's advice for gardening for better soil, with tried-and-tested methods for making simple compost, feeding your soil, protecting your soil, and introductions to No Dig gardening, Hugelkultur and rain gardens.
- Understand how plants help the soil and choose the perfect plants for your soil type.
With step-by-step projects, plant profiles and troubleshooting pages - by starting with soil you will not only be gardening in a way that is kind to the planet, but you will also be ensuring that your garden flourishes.
Created in collaboration with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and written by leading garden designer and soil expert, Juliet Sargeant, this is the must-have guide for a thriving garden.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 160 | Language: English | Publisher: FRANCES LINCOLN | ISBN: 0711289395
FormatHardcover
Pages160
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0711289395
EAN9780711289390
PublisherFRANCES LINCOLN
Publication Date2025-04-29
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.04 Pounds
Length8.46 Inches
Width6.62 Inches
Height0.72 Inches
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