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32%OFFRobert Kourik - Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish - 9780961584863 - V9780961584863
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Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish

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Description for Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish Paperback. Num Pages: 225 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 640.

*Award-Winner in the "Home & Garden” category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards

Understanding Roots uncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground—the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet.

Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude wondrous elixirs to create good soil, make friends with microbes and fungi, communicate with other roots, and adapt themselves to all manner of soils, winds, and climates, nourishing and sustaining our gardens, lawns, and woodlands.

Understanding Roots contains over ... Read more

The text provides a verydetailed review of all aspects of transplanting; describes how roots work their magic to improve soil nutrients; investigates the hidden life of soil microbes and their mysterious relationship to roots; explores the question of whether deep roots really gather more unique nutrients than shallow roots; shares the latest research about the mysteries of mycorrhizal (good fungal) association; shows you exactly where to put your fertilizer, compost, water, and mulch to help plants flourish; tells you why gray water increases crop yields more than fresh water; and, most importantly, reveals the science behind all the above (with citations for each scientific paper).

This book contains at least eighty percent more new information, more results of the latest in-depth and up-to-date explorations, and even more helpful guidelines on roots than the author’s previous book (Roots Demystified: Change Your Garden Habits to Help Roots Thrive). This is not a revised edition—it’s a whole new stand-alone book.

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Product Details

Publisher
Metamorphic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Santa Rosa, United States
ISBN
9780961584863
SKU
V9780961584863
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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About Robert Kourik
Robert Kourik installed his first edible landscape in 1978, and is the author of Drip Irrigation, Understanding Roots, Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape, and Lazy-Ass Gardening In the course of his 40-plus years of first-hand experience in sustainable horticulture, he’s received many accolades. Sunset magazine described Robert’s Drip Irrigation book as “The last word on drip irrigation” and “infused with good humor.” Paul ... Read more

Reviews for Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish
Midwest Book Review- Synopsis: "Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish" uncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground
the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet. Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish


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