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# Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition

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desertcart.com: Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition: 9781604691139: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis: Patio, Lawn & Garden

Review: Teaming with Microbes 2nd Edition The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web - Fertile soil is more than finely ground rock with some shredded peat moss and some roots and a worm or two sprinkled with some water and chemical fertilizer. Organic gardeners know that compost often holds a variety of visible lifeforms, but this book explains all the orders and families of lifeforms that can be found in a synthetic chemical free soil, with the most being microscopic in size. These tiny things are a food web, similar to what we call a food chain, which during their lifetimes contributes to the health of large plants like tree, and small like vegetables. However, I learned trees tend to benefit from fungal life forms that break down "brown" material like leaves and twigs, while vegetables and other soft stem plants prefere the bacterial forms that break down "green" material. There is much more explanation and detail of the life forms in a good composted soil, with some excellent photographs. It is easily read for such a complex subject, and get right down to the "how tos". One can open this book at any point and grasp what the authors have written. I have started a compost heap this spring, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of these forms under a microscope, and towards strengthening my drought stressed trees and shrubs. I got the hardcover because it's one of those subjects where I can look up a topic faster than searching on the internet. I am not knew to the concept of the vast kinds and amounts of organisms in the soil, but I still have learned useful facts. I think for anyone who is seriously into "organic" gardening, that is total avoidance of the synthetic chemicals, this is a useful reference.
Review: Opened My Eyes: Best Book For Gardeners and Farmers - I found this to be the best book I've read thus far for getting close to genuinely Understanding soil and therefore successfully knowledgeably gardening and farming in it. I recommend this book to people who want to know How and Why and are willing to dig deep so to speak in order to think bigger (sometimes by thinking smaller!). I do not recommend this to people who want Google to hurry up and tell them a simple answer. Because of this book I learned that Google's answers can easily be incorrect: Google will still tell you to Kill your Earth and the important Microbial Life within it with fertilizers that burn all your precious earthworms and Microbes away, making you 100% reliant on company's chemicals instead of the Earth. I am grateful to this book for opening my eyes, and I am now reading "Teaming With Fungi" to learn more.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #34,117 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #32 in Hydroponic Growing Media |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,196) |
| Dimensions  | 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches |
| Edition  | Revised |
| ISBN-10  | 1604691131 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1604691139 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 220 pages |
| Publication date  | February 24, 2010 |
| Publisher  | Timber Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Teaming with Microbes 2nd Edition The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
*by J***E on May 29, 2016*

Fertile soil is more than finely ground rock with some shredded peat moss and some roots and a worm or two sprinkled with some water and chemical fertilizer. Organic gardeners know that compost often holds a variety of visible lifeforms, but this book explains all the orders and families of lifeforms that can be found in a synthetic chemical free soil, with the most being microscopic in size. These tiny things are a food web, similar to what we call a food chain, which during their lifetimes contributes to the health of large plants like tree, and small like vegetables. However, I learned trees tend to benefit from fungal life forms that break down "brown" material like leaves and twigs, while vegetables and other soft stem plants prefere the bacterial forms that break down "green" material. There is much more explanation and detail of the life forms in a good composted soil, with some excellent photographs. It is easily read for such a complex subject, and get right down to the "how tos". One can open this book at any point and grasp what the authors have written. I have started a compost heap this spring, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of these forms under a microscope, and towards strengthening my drought stressed trees and shrubs. I got the hardcover because it's one of those subjects where I can look up a topic faster than searching on the internet. I am not knew to the concept of the vast kinds and amounts of organisms in the soil, but I still have learned useful facts. I think for anyone who is seriously into "organic" gardening, that is total avoidance of the synthetic chemicals, this is a useful reference.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Opened My Eyes: Best Book For Gardeners and Farmers
*by M***W on April 8, 2025*

I found this to be the best book I've read thus far for getting close to genuinely Understanding soil and therefore successfully knowledgeably gardening and farming in it. I recommend this book to people who want to know How and Why and are willing to dig deep so to speak in order to think bigger (sometimes by thinking smaller!). I do not recommend this to people who want Google to hurry up and tell them a simple answer. Because of this book I learned that Google's answers can easily be incorrect: Google will still tell you to Kill your Earth and the important Microbial Life within it with fertilizers that burn all your precious earthworms and Microbes away, making you 100% reliant on company's chemicals instead of the Earth. I am grateful to this book for opening my eyes, and I am now reading "Teaming With Fungi" to learn more.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great book for gardeners who want to understand the soil microbiome a bit better.
*by A***N on April 5, 2014*

I think most gardeners who are serious about the sport/hobby/obsession of plant growing and nurturing will enjoy this book. It adds a layer of "why" to the things we all do. You know you fertilize, but understanding the microbiology helps you understand WHY this plant might want this type and others might like another. It also takes the art/science of composting to a much more interesting (to me) level. As some other reviewers pointed out already, the first half of the book does get a tad boring, (but still densely packed with useful information!!) but I dealt with that by skipping to the back half of the book and then coming back to the portions I skipped and taking them in smaller does broken up by more zippy reading. I do not want to give the impression the first half of the book is badly written or anything, it is just information dense, and like a text book it gets a little boring here and there if you do not take a break. At least for me. I am eagerly anticipating making my gardens some lovely compost tea this spring, inspired by this most excellent book. I had been composting for years, and was not really sold on the need to go the extra mile and make tea, but these authors have sold me on taking the time for a garden tea party.

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