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Grow Your Soil!: Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever Paperback – February 18, 2020

by Diane Miessler (Author), Elaine R. Ingham (Foreword)
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Growing awareness of the importance of soil health means that microbes are on the minds of even the most casual gardeners. After all, anyone who has ever attempted to plant a thriving patch of flowers or vegetables knows that what you grow is only as good as the soil you grow it in. It is possible to create and maintain rich, dark, crumbly soil that’s teeming with life, using very few inputs and a no-till, no-fertilizer approach. Certified permaculture designer and lifelong gardener Diane Miessler presents the science of soil health in an engaging, entertaining voice geared for the backyard grower. She shares the techniques she has used — including cover crops, constant mulching, and a simple-but-supercharged recipe for compost tea — to transform her own landscape from a roadside dump for broken asphalt to a garden that stops traffic, starting from the ground up.
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Creating healthy soil isn't rocket science.

It's easier than you think! Step away from the rototiller, stop digging, skip the fertilizers, and let microbes do the heavy lifting. Discover no-sweat soil-building steps like turning weeds into on-the-spot mulch, using cover crops and kitchen waste to feed and protect your soil food web, and brewing super-easy, super-charged compost tea to fend off soil pathogens. Then sit back, relax, and watch your garden thrive.

About the Author

Diane Miessler is the author of Grow Your Soil! She is a certified permaculture designer, a soil science enthusiast, and a gardener with more than 50 years of experience. She has a monthly column in The Union, a newspaper that serves Nevada County, California.


Dr. Elaine Ingham discovered the soil food web nearly 4 decades ago and has been pioneering research ever since. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering ordinary people to bring the soils in their community back to life.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC (February 18, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1635862078
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1635862072
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 0.44 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 315 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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If you asked me to give you one book recommendation for gardening (beginner, intermediate, advance) I’d tell you to get, “Grow Your Soil.” It’s got everything you will need to have a successful garden. The methods in this book are tried and true. I was already doing some of the approaches mentioned in this book for building soil health before I purchased it. And let me tell you, it only confirmed those approaches. But I have learned so much more in this book. Very well written with great humor throughout. Diane had a great way of breaking things down (dumbing thighs down) for the reader. I was starting to get discouraged with composting and she helped lay things out so simply that it encouraged me to get out and start a new compost pile! I will be posting pictures of this new pile tomorrow, if everything goes as planned. Anyways, guys and gals, I am not being paid for marketing this book. It’s not a scam. Just trust me. BUY IT! Amazing work. Thanks for sharing it with the world! God bless you, Diane.
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Marybeth S. Sharkey
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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Author distills information in an informative and humorous way that makes a book about Soil easy to read and understand
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April Haapala
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect starter/ refresher book
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
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This had a lot of visuals.
The pictures helped me really remember the terms, which is what I really wanted.
This is a great book to bring up to speed on soil science.
Even a very curious 11 year old could read this book, but it is no way too simple.
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Levi Schroeder
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, easy read.
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2024
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I've been obsessed with this subject for years now and needed a stocking stuffer for myself and figured I could maybe learn something from This book. It was fun, great read that really lays the food soil web out. Definitely a recommend
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Xirena
4.0 out of 5 stars Most approachable gardening book I've ever read, but page and text colors can be an issue.
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2022
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First, I love this book! It is the most approachable gardening book I've ever read. Just the right amount of humor and technical information, with a healthy dose of "just try it, you're not going to break the world".

My only issue with it is that some of the pages are printed on colored paper, and the chosen font colors on those pages can be difficult to read. Orange on orange is not a very readable combination, for example. Color can be fun, but in a book, readability is king.
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A.R. Zellers
5.0 out of 5 stars Good knowledge to have
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023
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This may look like a simple book but the info has depth and importance to gardeners. It may require a second reading to retain some of the finer points. The author does repeat a few statistics a bit too much but guess I can ignore that for the overall important message of respecting soil since it does so much for nature.
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Baige
5.0 out of 5 stars PRICELESS INFO. Grow healthy soil!
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2022
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If you asked me to give you one book recommendation for gardening (beginner, intermediate, advance) I’d tell you to get, “Grow Your Soil.” It’s got everything you will need to have a successful garden. The methods in this book are tried and true. I was already doing some of the approaches mentioned in this book for building soil health before I purchased it. And let me tell you, it only confirmed those approaches. But I have learned so much more in this book. Very well written with great humor throughout. Diane had a great way of breaking things down (dumbing thighs down) for the reader. I was starting to get discouraged with composting and she helped lay things out so simply that it encouraged me to get out and start a new compost pile! I will be posting pictures of this new pile tomorrow, if everything goes as planned. Anyways, guys and gals, I am not being paid for marketing this book. It’s not a scam. Just trust me. BUY IT! Amazing work. Thanks for sharing it with the world! God bless you, Diane.
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5.0 out of 5 stars PRICELESS INFO. Grow healthy soil!
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2022
If you asked me to give you one book recommendation for gardening (beginner, intermediate, advance) I’d tell you to get, “Grow Your Soil.” It’s got everything you will need to have a successful garden. The methods in this book are tried and true. I was already doing some of the approaches mentioned in this book for building soil health before I purchased it. And let me tell you, it only confirmed those approaches. But I have learned so much more in this book. Very well written with great humor throughout. Diane had a great way of breaking things down (dumbing thighs down) for the reader. I was starting to get discouraged with composting and she helped lay things out so simply that it encouraged me to get out and start a new compost pile! I will be posting pictures of this new pile tomorrow, if everything goes as planned. Anyways, guys and gals, I am not being paid for marketing this book. It’s not a scam. Just trust me. BUY IT! Amazing work. Thanks for sharing it with the world! God bless you, Diane.
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A. Jaquith
5.0 out of 5 stars An Instant Classic for ALL Gardeners!
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020
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I lived across the street from the author for 5 years. Her gardens mesmerized and inspired me and I would often pick up ideas about what to plant where based on what was thriving in her garden. And everything was ALWAYS thriving. I had an acre across the street with better sun exposure than her public right of way garden, but somehow her peach trees were always dripping with fruit while mine had four measly peaches, her tulips made the sidewalks shimmer with color in the spring while mine struggled to bloom, and her cut flower gardens were a marvel of ingenuity and abundance while mine were nearly non-existent. I couldn’t ever figure out what I was doing wrong. Until I met Diane one day puttering around her garden. I watched her chopping her perennials and dropping pieces of them everywhere. Then I looked more closely and realized all her soil mulch was actually chopped up bits of plant prunings and weeds. I thought she was crazy when she told me to just drop it all down without too much worry about seeds or disease... I went home and started trying it... and within 6 months my garden went from sad to thriving. I have since taken a permaculture design course, and studied soil science- but honestly, Diane’s book offers more down to earth, applicable explanations of the soil food web and no-till gardening than most more technical books will. I think even master gardeners will find at least a few new tidbits of understanding in these pages. Plus, Diane’s voice is witty and funny and brilliant. I predict this will become an instant classic for homesteaders/gardeners!
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D. Shouse
5.0 out of 5 stars What a delightful and useful book!
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023
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Diane has a gift for presenting practical information with playfulness and humor. Her love of growing things permeates the pages and inspires the reader to get out there and grow. She deftly plants the seeds so we can all have fun becoming sustainable, successful gardeners.
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BizzieLizzie
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Advice
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2021
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Easy to read very good advice , although aimed at the US market
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Lee Gilmore
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Australia on August 29, 2021
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Packed with lots of knowledge and how to to get your soil healthy and stay healthy. Worth the read easy.
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