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This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil!How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be your guide on gardening from the ground up! Fertilizing, tilling, weed management, and irrigation all affect the quality of your soil. Using author Elizabeth Murphy's detailed instructions, anyone can become a successful soil-based gardener, whether you want to start a garden from scratch or improve an existing garden.If you want methods that won't break your back, are good for the environment, and create high-yielding and beautiful gardens of all shapes and sizes, this is the book for you! Create classic landscape gardens, grow a high-yielding orchard, nurture naturally beautiful lawns, raise your household veggies, or run a profitable farm.



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Elizabeth Murphy

Elizabeth Murphy is a soil scientist, writer, and organic farmer/gardener who believes that the future of our planet depends on bringing life to soil, wherever we are. She has worked on organic farms, with urban gardens, as a Small Farms agricultural extension agent, and in agroecological research. With twenty years of hands-on practical experience and the latest research in soil health to back her up, she shares the simple truth that to grow more, we need to do less. A living soil grows naturally bountiful gardens. Based in Tacoma, Washington her love of soil and farming takes her on adventures around the world. Follow her blog at dirtsecrets.com.



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