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# Step-by-step soil re-mineralization Customizable web-based spreadsheets In-depth soil chemistry & nutrient science The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food

**Price:** 4855 som
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## Summary

> 🌿 Grow Smarter, Eat Richer: The Future of Gardening is Intelligent!

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- **What is this?** The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food
- **How much does it cost?** 4855 som with free shipping
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## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Combat Modern Soil Depletion:** Address the hidden crisis of nutrient loss caused by intensive agriculture and reclaim your garden’s vitality.
- • **Data-Driven Gardening Mastery:** Leverage customizable spreadsheets to precisely balance soil minerals and optimize crop nutrition.
- • **Unlock Nutrient-Dense Harvests:** Transform depleted soil into a powerhouse of vitamins and minerals for healthier, tastier produce.
- • **Trusted by Experts & Enthusiasts:** Join a community of serious gardeners and organic farmers revolutionizing food quality with science-backed methods.
- • **Beyond Organic – Scientific Precision:** Move past generic composting with a proven system that targets soil deficiencies at the chemical level.

## Overview

The Intelligent Gardener is a comprehensive guide that empowers serious gardeners to restore essential minerals to depleted soils using a scientific, data-driven approach. Featuring step-by-step instructions and customizable spreadsheets, it bridges the gap between soil chemistry and practical gardening to produce nutrient-dense fruits, vegetables, and grains. Highly rated and recognized in soil science and sustainable agriculture, this book challenges conventional and organic farming myths to help you grow healthier food and improve overall well-being.

## Description

“It is bold, it is courageous, and it challenges many of our preconceptions about food, about soils, about farming, and about health.” ―Michael Ableman, farmer, author of Farm the City To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality, the essential minerals lacking in our soil from intensive agriculture must be replaced. The Intelligent Gardener is the practical, step-by-step guide for any serious gardener who wants to: Demystify this process Debunk much of the false and misleading information perpetuated by both the conventional and organic agricultural movements Re-mineralize our soil. Accompanied with customizable web-based spreadsheets, this toolkit calls for far more attention to detail than the simple addition of composted manure or NPK fertilizers. It conclusively establishes the link between healthy soil, healthy food, and healthy people. Vegetables, fruits, and grains are a major source of vital nutrients, but centuries of intensive agriculture have depleted our soils to historic lows. As a result, the broccoli you consume today may have less than half the vitamins and minerals that the equivalent serving would have contained a hundred years ago. This is a matter of serious concern, since poor nutrition has been linked to myriad health problems including cancer, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. For optimum health we must increase the nutrient density of our foods to the levels enjoyed by previous generations. The Intelligent Gardener goes beyond organic―it offers the essential tools for those who care about the quality of the produce they grow. “It’s hard to imagine this book not having a significant and lasting impact on the way organic farmers and gardeners grow their crops.” ―Mark McDonald, West Coast Seeds

Review: you hate the idea of merging math and technical ideas with ... - This book might not be for you if: you already have a fertilizer, system, and/or philosophy that produces tons of vegetables and produce, you have 4 small raised beds that you occasionally grow stuff in, you hate the idea of merging math and technical ideas with the free spirit of gardening, you've already read tons material by Albrecht or Tiedjens, you just want to put some Dr. Earth fertilizer in a pot and water your plants, your soil is awesome! This book might be for you if: your soil is terrible, you can't grow anything despite watering and babying your plants, you just love consuming gardening information, you get ok results with your garden but there seems to be some bottleneck in performance. Personally I have annoying clay soil that is loaded with magnesium so my soil turns into cement when it dries. This book helped me remedy that problem along with providing an entire system for understanding the inner workings of soil and so far it hasn't done me wrong. Sure, I could have just read online that you need to add gypsum to clay soil but this book will help you figure out how much, for how long, and why bother in the first place. My soil is much better already and its only been one year since I started adding gypsum, next year things might be even better. Obviously there is a lot more to the book, so much more that it forces some people to leave 1 and 2 star reviews because it can sometimes be too complicated or overwhelming. I can't promise all the ideas in this book work but many have worked for me. Good luck!
Review: Test and amend for healthy soil and crops - We live west of the Cascades and found Solomon's general gardening book for our region to be the best. After five years of gardening our new site I thought it would be appropriate to get some soil tests done to see how healthy our ground is for our plants. We grow much of our food and do it "organically". This new book by Steve Solomon was just what I needed. He specifically describes soil nutrients and basic chemistry and describes methods for using soil tests to create healthy soil for healthy (to eat) crops. This book is technical, but Solomon does a great job of explaining what dedicated gardeners should know about their soils. The reader can use his methods to determine how much of each amendment to add to soil without the need to understand his explanations of soil chemistry. I read straight through this book, and will have it on my bookshelf as a reference for making compost or preparing a garden bed for a new crop.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #189,456 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #18 in Soil Gardening #21 in Soil Science (Books) #87 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 512 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ you hate the idea of merging math and technical ideas with ...
*by M***S on October 31, 2017*

This book might not be for you if: you already have a fertilizer, system, and/or philosophy that produces tons of vegetables and produce, you have 4 small raised beds that you occasionally grow stuff in, you hate the idea of merging math and technical ideas with the free spirit of gardening, you've already read tons material by Albrecht or Tiedjens, you just want to put some Dr. Earth fertilizer in a pot and water your plants, your soil is awesome! This book might be for you if: your soil is terrible, you can't grow anything despite watering and babying your plants, you just love consuming gardening information, you get ok results with your garden but there seems to be some bottleneck in performance. Personally I have annoying clay soil that is loaded with magnesium so my soil turns into cement when it dries. This book helped me remedy that problem along with providing an entire system for understanding the inner workings of soil and so far it hasn't done me wrong. Sure, I could have just read online that you need to add gypsum to clay soil but this book will help you figure out how much, for how long, and why bother in the first place. My soil is much better already and its only been one year since I started adding gypsum, next year things might be even better. Obviously there is a lot more to the book, so much more that it forces some people to leave 1 and 2 star reviews because it can sometimes be too complicated or overwhelming. I can't promise all the ideas in this book work but many have worked for me. Good luck!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Test and amend for healthy soil and crops
*by S***R on November 16, 2013*

We live west of the Cascades and found Solomon's general gardening book for our region to be the best. After five years of gardening our new site I thought it would be appropriate to get some soil tests done to see how healthy our ground is for our plants. We grow much of our food and do it "organically". This new book by Steve Solomon was just what I needed. He specifically describes soil nutrients and basic chemistry and describes methods for using soil tests to create healthy soil for healthy (to eat) crops. This book is technical, but Solomon does a great job of explaining what dedicated gardeners should know about their soils. The reader can use his methods to determine how much of each amendment to add to soil without the need to understand his explanations of soil chemistry. I read straight through this book, and will have it on my bookshelf as a reference for making compost or preparing a garden bed for a new crop.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent explanation and summary of Albrecht and Astera's methods
*by H***R on December 23, 2012*

First of all, the subtitle is a bit misleading. You won't get information on many aspects of growing nutrient-dense food, like variety selection and time of harvest, out of this book. What The Intelligent Gardener does provide, though, is well worth the price. I've been nibbling around the edges of learning about soil testing for the last couple of years, but this book turned my understanding into a full (and nutrient-dense) meal. Solomon's work is based largely on Albrecht's studies of the optimal ratios of cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium), with a lot of updates from the more modern work of Astera. Solomon breaks it all down into simple worksheets that anyone can fill out with a calculator able to multiply, add, and subtract. A second warning is due --- you'll need to put quite a bit of cash into Solomon's method if you have a large homestead. Solomon's math only works if you do a Mehlich 3 soil test, which is about $20 per sample; then, you'll probably be committing to adding several hundred dollars' worth of amendments (like gypsum) to get your soil back in balance. Even if you don't want to go the scientific route, though, this book is worth it for its explanation of the chemistry of soil. Highly recommended!

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