As part of the January meet up of the garden bloggers bookclub, I finished reading Teaming with Microbes – A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web. It’s not your typical garden book in my mind. It spends a lot more time explaining science than is normal to find in the gardening genre. As someone who focuses more on the personal education side of things I throughly enjoyed the book. I do have to admit that I’m going to have to reread the book again as I had not planned on wanting to take notes. But I’ve already had to flip through the book to find things again which means I should have taken notes.
The most useful chapter to me was on Compost Tea. It’s such an interesting and science based technique that I’m going to have to try it for myself and do a podcast on it!
Gardening is a book genre that is chalk full of rewritten and rehashed topics that basically say the same thing. This is one book that I’m glad I purchased, and don’t think I’ll find another book to take it’s place in the library. Awesome!
Tyler… thanks for posting about the book for the book club. You are the first to “speak” about it, so to speak. I feel the way you do about the book. More science than normal, but it is a book I’ll be referring to quite a bit. I’m not yet finished reading it… Carol @ May Dreams Gardens