Just as he demystified the soil food web in his ground-breaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective. Where Teaming with Microbes used adeptly used microbiology; Teaming with Nutrients employs cellular biology.
Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed but know little or nothing about the nature of the nutrients involved or how they get into plants. Teaming with Nutrients explains how nutrients move into plants and what both macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients do once inside. It shows organic gardeners how to provide these essentials. To fully understand how plants eat, Lowenfels uses his ability to make science accessible with lessons in the biology, chemistry, and botany all gardeners need to understand how nutrients get to the plant and what they do once they’re inside the plant.
Teaming with Nutrients will open your eyes to the importance of understanding the role of nutrients in healthy, productive organic gardens and it will show you how these nutrients do their jobs. In short, it will make you a better informed, more successful and more environmentally responsible gardener.
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Books by Jeff Lowenfels
Jeff Lowenfels
Author, lawyer, and longest-running garden columnist in North America.AKA “Lord of The Roots” due to his award-winning “Teaming” series
The Soil Food Web
Healthy soil is teeming with life—not just worms and insects, but a staggering amount of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms.
Plant health
Home gardeners can cultivate increased nutrient uptake, resistance to drought, earlier fruiting, and more by teaming up fungi.
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