Soil, Compost, & Fertility for City Gardeners: Build Healthy Soil & Increase Yields Without a Traditional Yard Gardening & Micro Farming Book

🌱 Soil, Compost, & Fertility for City Gardeners is a hands-on, urban-first guide to building rich, living soil and increasing yields—without a traditional yard. If you garden on a balcony, patio, rooftop, or in containers, this book teaches you how soil really works in small spaces and how to keep it productive season after season.Instead of treating potting mix as a disposable product, you’ll learn to understand container soil health, read its signals with simple sensory tests, and manage fertility as a living system. Discover how microbes, structure, water, and nutrients interact in pots—and how small mistakes quietly reduce yields over time.📘 Inside, you’ll learn how to:Build urban potting mix recipes tailored to vegetables, herbs, and fruitImprove container soil fertility using compost, worm castings, and organic amendmentsPractice balcony composting with bokashi, worm bins, tumblers, and compact systemsFix drainage, salt buildup, and hydrophobic soil in city container gardensCreate sustainable small space compost systems that fit kitchens and balconiesManage organic soil amendments for containers without overfeedingBalance pH using simple, low-cost methods—no lab tests requiredUse container cover crops and living mulches to protect and rebuild soilTurn everyday waste into nutrients with urban compost solutionsDesign a closed-loop soil care for apartment gardeners that reduces costs and waste🌿 Perfect for balcony growers, renters, and serious container gardeners, this book replaces guesswork with clear systems, practical routines, and troubleshooting that actually works in real city conditions.Healthy soil grows food. Learn to build it—anywhere.