good winter reading

   _the nature and properties of soils_ by Brady and
Weil.  i'm nosing through the 2002 (13th edition)
and enjoying it.  a more recent edition would be
fun to go through eventually to see how much it
has changed.  likely going to take me a while to
digest this one even at the surface level, but like
the lichens, i'll eventually etch something outta it.

  next up: _nematode behavior_ ed. by, Gaugler and
Bilgrami, chs 12 (population dynamics) and 13
(survival strategies) are looking good to address
some of Derald's questions about predatory nematodes,
but the rest of the book should also be good fun.  ;)

  before starting on these i went through a sf book
on the supervolcano eruption in Yellowstone (thought
the book was ok, but didn't much care for the style
of the author so won't recommend it), and another
on genetic engineering and the future post apocalyptic
nomadic farmers (called _Seed_), it was a much better
work in that at least the author had some interesting
ideas and characters.  for a first book, i'd say it
was pretty decent.

  what's on your reading list?


  songbird

 On 12/10/11 8:01 PM, songbird wrote:

I read no differently in winter than in summer.  I garden year round,
except on the few days it rains or is unbearably hot.  This month, I
begin pruning roses, grapes, and a very young peach tree.  Of course, I
will have mounds of leaves to rake, all from one ash tree.  Next month,
after all pruning is done, I will have to do dormant spraying.  My
effort to renovate the potted plants in my breakfast room greenhouse
window by rooting cuttings will continue.

And I promised my doctor that, if rain prevents me from gardening, I
will go to the gym for exercise.  In them meantime, my bridge partner
just gave me a book on the 25 most important bridge bidding conventions.

--
David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean, see
<http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html>
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>

 
***That's interesting.  I prune 3rd week in January (my birthday).
Wonder if that's due to the difference between our micro-climes?
Around Christmas, I always get a flush of blooms, so that would be too
early for moi.

, grapes, and a very young peach tree.  Of course, I

***Awesome.  Maybe in my next life I will have enough smarts to play
bridge <g>

HB

 
Higgs Boson;943751 Wrote:

me to , i hope that i can become smart enough !
thanks for your sharing !
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samsam

 
I really like 'Hartley Botanic's'
(http://www.hartley-botanic.co.uk/ranges ) range of Greenhouses - they're
high end but worth it IMO.




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Steve_Mason