Practical Science for Gardeners

Informative and entertaining, this book will stimulate experimentation and encourage gardeners to review and improve their current gardening practices. Once gardeners learn how plants are constructed, it is easier to envision how they'll grow and flourish. An understanding of the structure behind good, healthy soil gives clues as to how to improve one's own garden tilth. This practical guide helps readers identify what plants need to survive and how these fundamental scientific facts are at the heart of good plant care. A chapter on seeds and germination will encourage gardeners at any level to try their hand at propagation, while discussion of soil, pests, and diseases adds to the skills of all gardeners. The final sections of the book take a closer look at biodiversity, ecology, genetic engineering, and nomenclature. For the enthusiastic beginner or the master gardener, Practical Science for Gardeners unravels the mysterious inner life of plants.

First sentence: By painstaking observation, then putting forward hypotheses and experimenting to test these hunches, scientists have discovered that our planet is constructed of around 100 chemical elements, each occurring in the form of tiny units - atoms - indivisible by ordinary physical or chemical means.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Timber Press, Incorporated

Editions

4

Pages

176

ISBN

9780881927184

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