Whether you\'re a serious home gardener or a full-time farmer, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils will help you expand your understanding of the science behind plant nutrition.
It\'s a problem-solver\'s handbook for building soil health..
For both organic and conventional farmers, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils dives deep into how macro-nutrients such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and sulfur - along with potassium and micronutrients (cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, and zinc) - affect the development of healthy crops.
For example, readers will learn how to: build a more complete soil-health management system; balance pH consistently across your fields with mineral balancing; create more resilient crops by knowing how soil health affects disease and pest pressure; and convert raw testing data into real action.
Productive soil that has the right balance of bio-available minerals and maximizes crop production and quality is the goal, and Mckibben outlines a common-sense approach for how to get there.
Drawing on 40 years of experience using the Albrecht philosophy of Balancing soils, William Mckibben will walk you through a data-driven, time-tested process that starts with soil analysis, but doesn\'t stop there.
It all starts with the soil, but, as you\'ll read, just spreading compost and hoping for the best isn\'t a strategy for success.
Whether you\'re a serious home gardener or a full-time farmer, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils will help you expand your understanding of the science behind plant nutrition
