The HEALTHY SOIL HANDBOOK

An Earth Garden publication

with foreword by JACKIE FRENCH

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New softcover book, 80 pages. Published 2008 by Earth Garden magazine.

Wander through the productive vegie patches of successful organic gardeners. Read about their down-to-earth gardening lifestyles and learn how to grow your own.

Learn the secrets of making your soil healthy and nutrient-rich so you can produce bountiful harvests with minimum water and minimum effort.

Learn how to make perfect compost so you never again have to see piles of fruit-fly infested slime!

Healthy soil produces strong plants and strong plants resist pests and diseases.

The Healthy Soil Handbook will show you how successful organic gardeners all over Australia are feeding their families, bottling the excess and giving away healthy foods to friends and relatives.

Fertile compost, nitrogen-rich soil, earthworms galore, mulching for water-wise gardening - all producing healthy vegetables, fruits and herbs.

Chapters include:

• Foreword by Jackie French
• Part One Earthworms - Worms, worns and more worms; Worm farm vegetable beds; Build your own recycled worm farm
• Part Two Compost - Feeding the earth the lazy way; Slow food - energy-efficient compost; our compost journey; Chilled our composting; Hot compost in a rotating bin; Compost systems we have known; Hot compost - what gardeners want; The instant compost heap
• Part Three Mulch - Home grown mulch and stock feed; A mulched garden is a healthy garden; Chook-assisted mulching; Go girls - rip it up! Ideas for integrated mulching
• Part Four More - My no-dig jungle; green manure crops; Soil happiness; Feed the soil, not the plant; Building soil with chook power; Healthy soil and healthy kids