Chelsea Green Publishing Company The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments

A fabulous book for those with a keen interest in an in depth look into garden supplements/amendments. I love this book!

Purchased for s friend who says the book is packed with important and essential information about growing.

I normally don't leave reviews because of time constraints, but this one is an exception. Nigel Palmer's book is top-shelf material in my personal library because it outlines everything I need to break free from commercial fertilizers, even organic ones... I have been an organic gardener for almost 50 years, and this book has the kind of information that is missing from most books and websites. It does a great job of explaining soil biology in practical terms which helps me to better formulate my homemade fertilizers.The appendixes are crammed with useful charts and information: a handy summary of the amendment recipes in the book; optimal soil mineral amounts; plant mineral deficiency indicators; amendment mineral analysis; and refractive index brix scales (what the brix readings of different plants would be to show poor/avg/good/excellent quality).I was pleasantly surprised to also find lots of information about using an inexpensive refractometer to measure plant health and to evaluate the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables (fun and enlightening to compare storebought produce and homegrown!).

This book provides a good summary of a new garden model, which opens the possibility to grow healthy vegetables and fruit, focusing on organic plant nutrition rather than plant protection.

I'm not disappointed. I'll be using this book throughout the gardening season to make all my own natural garden amendments. Far easier than you would think. I'm getting more interested in Korean natural farming, which perhaps maybe this is technically not, but it's along the same lines in my opinion. Really happy I bought the book. It's a very good place to begin one of the journeo I'm on.