Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive
Roots Demystified, explains simple solutions about growing healthy roots and, thereby, healthier plants. The book explores the subterranean part of every gardener's world, revealing how roots really grow while dispelling myths such as where most gardeners apply water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost. This is the first and only book in print for gardeners with such an extensive number of illustrations of garden and orchard roots. The roots covered are: lawns, prairies, shrubs, vegetables,...
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Roots Demystified, explains simple solutions about growing healthy roots and, thereby, healthier plants. The book explores the subterranean part of every gardener's world, revealing how roots really grow while dispelling myths such as where most gardeners apply water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost. This is the first and only book in print for gardeners with such an extensive number of illustrations of garden and orchard roots. The roots covered are: lawns, prairies, shrubs, vegetables, fruit trees, and native and ornamental trees. Practical tips for how a gardener might use this new information to create more abundant vegetables, better lawns and sturdier trees and shrubs are offered with each of the 70 illustrations. Roots Demystified also describes several ways to garden without turning the soil--no-till and surface cultivation--a plus for aging baby-boomers.
How Roots Grow 5Humus & Mulch 13Lawns 23Weaver's Lone Prairie, or God's Very Own Lawn 31Shrubs 35Vegetables 39Surface Cultivation & No-Till Gardening 65Fruit Tree Roots 73Native & Ornamental Trees 83The Good Fungus Among Us 97Trees Water Their Neighbors (and themselves) 103Trees & Hardscape 107Trees That Belong Far Away From (or In) Lawns 113Selecting Trees & Shrubs 121Planting Trees & Shrubs 129Planting Root-Bound Trees & Shrubs 135Subsurface Drip Irrigation 139Legumes to Improve Your Soil 147Searching for Tube-Grown Plants 149A Short List of Shrubs 151More Trees That Can Also Grow in Lawns 153Some Trees and Shrubs Susceptible to Phytophthora 155Bibliography 157Index 161
