Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
For nearly twenty years, Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf has been established as a core text for students of horticulture and an essential reference for practicing horticulturalists and their suppliers, landscape gardeners and designers, and greenkeepers. This third edition, substantially revised from the last edition published in 1994, has been expanded by 70 pages and contains 48 new illustrations.
Topics covered include choosing materials for potting mixes, fertilizers, efficient use of water, drainage, salinity, turf management, soil-borne diseases, hydroponics, and the preparation of soils for landscape planting.
Some of the changes in this edition reflect the increasing attention given to a broad array of environmental issues, including alternatives to the use of methyl bromide and other harmful chemicals; ways of minimizing surface and groundwater pollution by the runoff of agricultural and horticultural nutrients; and advances in water management including the use of effluent waters, slow-sand filtration to disinfect water supplies, and sub-irrigation in its various forms.
This revised edition of Growing Media retains the key features that have made the book a trusted reference for so long -- its detailed but clear explanations of the properties of growing media, of plant nutrition, and of the intricate interconnections of the biological world in which they operate.
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About the Author
Kevin Handreck is managing director of Netherwood Horticultural Consultants, Adelaide, Australia. Neil Black is director of the North Coast Institute of Technical and Further Education in New South Wales.
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Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf,K. A. Handbreck,N. P. Black,New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd,0868401773,Business/Economics
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