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Deadphish1965
Can anyone recommend a good up to date book on soils and possibly how to mix soils?
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Deadphish1965
Thanks !
i like these posts where you click here and bam you find what you are looking for
If only there were a way one could do this themselves.
Preposterous.
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Deadphish1965
I found some threads in search. I didn't see any recent threads though. They were all over a year old.
Google search is better. Though it never lands you (or at least me) on the right page of a megathread.
Soil biology like any science is slow work, there isn't really an Oprah reading list every year. Nothing wrong with an old thread if it leads you down the right path.
Don't mind me. There's a much more pleasant way to say the things I think that I fail to grasp.
Soil biology like any science is slow work, there isn't really an Oprah reading list every year. Nothing wrong with an old thread if it leads you down the right path.
Don't mind me. There's a much more pleasant way to say the things I think that I fail to grasp.
TerpeneDream
Active member
Albrecth can be kina hard to digest.
When I started my journey it was teaming with microbes and the Eco farm by Charles Walters. It takes the teachings of many great soil agronomist and breaks it down in tona easy to read book. It covers all points, cover crops, soil interactions, clay, microbes, humus. I reference it all the time.
When I started my journey it was teaming with microbes and the Eco farm by Charles Walters. It takes the teachings of many great soil agronomist and breaks it down in tona easy to read book. It covers all points, cover crops, soil interactions, clay, microbes, humus. I reference it all the time.
Feed the soil Edwin McLeod, The most comprehensive list of green manures and their preferred soil types as well as a list of plants that do not care as to preferences. There is a lot of legumes in this book it's an interesting read and reference point. One I recommend if your gonna be a practical professional gardner in the real world gardening 'outside' with the increased work loads. One I would like to point out isn't a textbook it's a child's story, an understanding into how the soil food network is achieved.
It goes above and beyond anything I have read since, principally because it's use of the old school techniques and methods which pioneered the way to modern pH testing amongst other common place practice used in agriculture these days. It also shows how implemented yearly plantings of green manures improve soil above and beyond that of modern farming methods and how theory are beneficial to the whole soil food web.
It goes above and beyond anything I have read since, principally because it's use of the old school techniques and methods which pioneered the way to modern pH testing amongst other common place practice used in agriculture these days. It also shows how implemented yearly plantings of green manures improve soil above and beyond that of modern farming methods and how theory are beneficial to the whole soil food web.
i suffer the same dilemma. sometimes i'm driving tacks w/ a sledge
Gizmo
Member
Weird the book you advise looks very interesting, i will take a look at it.
i know the op was asking for books about soil but i would like to advise a few books about plants genetic, some of you already know these books very well for sure, to me there are the best, a little thought to TH by the way, i hope everything is ok for him.
I put them in the order of easy to harder to read.
i know the op was asking for books about soil but i would like to advise a few books about plants genetic, some of you already know these books very well for sure, to me there are the best, a little thought to TH by the way, i hope everything is ok for him.
I put them in the order of easy to harder to read.
I'll 3rd Teaming with microbes by Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis.
But my favorite.
The Ideal Soil:
a Handbook for the new Agriculture by Michael Astera.
Of all the books that I have read I feel that this book by Michael Astera has given me the most knowledge.
It is written in easy to understand ways.
Ratz
But my favorite.
The Ideal Soil:
a Handbook for the new Agriculture by Michael Astera.
Of all the books that I have read I feel that this book by Michael Astera has given me the most knowledge.
It is written in easy to understand ways.
Ratz
Ecosystem and soil scientists frequently use whole soil carbon:nitrogen (C : N) ratios to estimate the rate of N mineralization from decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM). However, SOM is actually composed of several pools and ignoring this heterogeneity leads to incorrect estimations since the smaller pools, which are usually the most active, can be masked by the larger pools. In this paper, we add new evidence against the use of C : N ratios of the whole soil: we show that a disturbance can decrease the whole-soil C : N ratio and yet increase C : N ratios of all SOM pools. This curious numerical response, known as Simpson's paradox, casts doubt on the meaning of frequently reported whole-soil C : N changes following a disturbance, and challenges the N mineralization estimates derived from whole-soil C : N ratio or single-pool modeling approaches. Whole-soil C : N ratio may not only hide features of the labile SOM pool, but also obscure changes of the large recalcitrant SOM pools which determine long-term N availability.
Opposite changes of whole-soil vs. pools C:N ratios: A case of Simpson's paradox with implications on nitrogen cycling (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/public...paradox_with_implications_on_nitrogen_cycling [accessed Jan 9, 2016].
Opposite changes of whole-soil vs. pools C:N ratios: A case of Simpson's paradox with implications on nitrogen cycling (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/public...paradox_with_implications_on_nitrogen_cycling [accessed Jan 9, 2016].
TerpeneDream
Active member
Yea, Teaming w/ Microbes is a great start. Maybe the best. M Astera was chasing too much math for my liking.
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