Saturday, January 31, 2009

VG2 Handbook -THE MAGIC OF SOIL DESIGN

VG2 Handbook -THE MAGIC OF SOIL DESIGN

VG2 - Gardener's Handbook - Victory Garden 2.0 - How to Establish your own Sustainable Functional-Food-Producing Organic Garden
The Magic of Soil Design


There is, obviously, some know-how involved with creating and maintaining your own Sustainable Organic Garden.

Nothing complicated, nothing a child could not do. Fact is, this writer did it as a child of 6, at no one's injunction, but with everyone's support, being fortunate enough to be for 3-4 months a year in a rural setting where such skills had yet to be forgotten, and probably just wanting to imitate the grown-ups.

Now, if a child of 6 can do it, do you think you might be able to as well?

Indeed, there is nothing to fear. Nothing is simpler than Gardening. The Earth WANTS to provide you with wholesome foods. However, you can't successfully go into Victory Gardening, or any gardening at all, without understanding some basic principles. That's where this Handbook will come handy.

For example, believe it or not, plants are mainly composed of air, water and sunlight.

In average, it's quite safe to say that only about 5% of their total weight comes from the soil. However, if the soil does not provide them with what they need in form of air, water, and micro-nutrients, your Garden is going to go nowhere. The closer to optimal that input will be, the better, the easier for the plant, and the healthier for you.

Thus, learning to design a soil that is ideal for your plants to thrive (and obviously, different plants may have different needs) is of paramount importance for your overall success.

How to do that the most effectively with a minimum of time, efforts and expenses is what will be addressed in the present VG2 Handbook.



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