Teaming with Microbes.Teaming with Microbes Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis Timber Press Inc 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland, OR 97204-3527 0881927775 $24.95 www.timberpress.com/media Written by lifelong gardeners Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, Teaming With Microbes: A Gardener's guide to the Soil Food Web is a guide to using natural means to enrich the nutrients in soil and therefore the plants that grow in it, such as compost, mulches, and compost teas Compost Tea, a liquid solution or suspension made by steeping compost in water. It is used as both a fertilizer and as in attempts to prevent plant diseases. Types , rather than harshly toxic artificial fertilizers that destroy the very microbes that sustain healthy plants, therefore making plants increasingly dependent artificial nourishment nour·ish·ment n. Something that nourishes; food. . Color photographs illustrate the highly educational and practical text, which is divided into two parts. Part one is filled with information about the soil-food web from bacteria, fungi, algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that , and protozoa to earthworms, gastropods, and mammals The class Mammalia (the Mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the Monotremes); and mammals which give live birth. The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (the marsupials); and the placental mammals. ; part two describes in detail how to apply the soil-food web effectively in one's gardening, with the note that no one ever had to fertilize an old-growth forest. Enthusiastically recommended for gardeners of all skill and experience levels, as well as students and professionals in the fields of horticulture horticulture [Lat. hortus=garden], science and art of gardening and of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. Horticulture generally refers to small-scale gardening, and agriculture to the growing of field crops, usually on a large and agriculture. |
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