Book review : The Organic Grow Book - American English Edition Gardening Strategies for Indoors & Outdoors.

By KAREL SCHELFHOUT, MICHIEL PANHUYSEN

This practical handbook reveals new organic gardening techniques. It’s a compendium of secrets rediscovered and innovative tips.

Summary

Beneficial micro-organisms, bokashi or biodynamic compost, permaculture, vortex, power of the elements… The Organic Grow Book opens the doors to a full-scale (r)evolution where productivity goes hand in hand with quality.

Summer and winter, in soil or bioponic, learn to grow healthier and tastier plants — fruit, vegetables, flowers — while enhancing your own well-being and the planet’s.

With its broad array of unprecedented strategies and proven tips, this eco-responsible and highly humorous guide is a must for all mindful gardeners, whether beginners or experts.

Photos, 3D diagrams, microscopies, step-by-step graphs… over 500 original illustrations.

The authors

Karel Schelfhout has been a recognized figure in the world of horticulture for over thirty years. He played a prominent role in disseminating cultivation techniques first used in the Netherlands — and subsequently switched to organic growing.

Michiel Panhuysen, a journalist published in several languages, specializes in organic and urban gardening.

My review

The organic grow book is a most beautiful with numerous pictures. It is perfect in size and is well-bound, which is extremely important since this book is going to be read regularly and used in order to improve our growing methods. Personally, I am keeping it in my second home (where I am lucky to have a 5000-square-meter land) and I have already referred to it several times.
It is translated in different languages: mine is in English (and I also own the French comics version which is amazing too) illustrated by French Pic Lelièvre and Olivier Verbrugghe.
The contents are extensive (600 pages) and easy to understand. It is highly practical and shares all the traditional secrets of gardening indoors and outdoors with us, but also innovative tips and new organic gardening techniques. It is a must-have if you are interested in organic gardening and nature.
I particularly enjoyed the chapters about organic nutrients, plant diseases and other challenges, organic methods for growing outdoors.
In short, I highly recommend this amazing book!