Teaming With Nutrients
The Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

Name: Teaming With Nutrients
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Jeff Lowenfels
ISBN: 9781666552744

Author: Jeff Lowenfels

Narrator: Chris Lutkin

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/16/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Gardening, Nature, Ecology, Science, Life Sciences

Synopsis

Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed but know little to nothing about the nature of the nutrients involved or how they get into plants. Teaming with Nutrients explains how nutrients move into plants and what both macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients do once inside. It shows organic gardeners how to provide these essentials. To fully explain how plants eat, Lowenfels uses his ability to make science accessible with lessons in biology, chemistry, and botany that all gardeners need to know to understand how nutrients get to the plant and what they do once they're inside it. Teaming with Nutrients will open your eyes to the importance of understanding the role of nutrients in healthy, productive organic gardens, and it will show you how these nutrients do their jobs. In short, it will make you a better informed, more successful, and more environmentally responsible gardener.

About Jeff Lowenfels

Jeff Lowenfels is a well-respected and popular national garden writer. The former president of the Garden Writers of America, he was made a GWA Fellow in 1999. He is also the founder of Plant a Row for the Hungry, a program that advocates for food donation and has led to over a million pounds of produce being donated to the hungry every year. He currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska.

About Chris Lutkin

Chris Lutkin has been an actor, a director, a writer, and a teacher for over thirty years. He has narrated several audiobooks including The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, 12 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Red Badge of Courage. He currently resides in Detroit with his wife, Heather, and their rescue dog, Buckaroo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JEAVONNA

Another good one from this author. Difficult reading if you don't like science. I love science and some of it was still slow going. Worth the read. Lots of useful information. If you don't think endoplasmic reticulum is a cool word, you may want to pass on this one.......more

Goodreads review by Tinea

While Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web was the perfect mix of scientific detail and practical, fun gardening guide, this follow-up is much more textbook-y. Because it focuses much more on the microscopic processes happening within plant cells, this book is quite abstrac......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey

A useful guide for the nerdy gardener!......more

Goodreads review by Tuck

a dandy book, easy to understand, lots of recipes, and shocking facts too. i didn;t know phosphorus (the p in n p k) will reach peak in this century. bad news for modern agriculture. another factoid, home gardeners use 3X of commercial fertilizer that commercial farmers do, leading to non-point sour......more

Quotes

Lowenfels offers a deeper understanding of the major and minor plant nutrients and delivers the necessary science in a conversational style that most gardeners will appreciate.