This wonderful little book covers everything you need to know about the types of plants known as weeds. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer discusses the different varieties of weeds, how they grow and what they can tell us about soil health. The process of combatting weeds is discussed in principle as well as in practice, so that it can be applied to any situation. First written in the 1950s, this is still one of the best overviews of the subject available.
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'The author was a pinoeer of biodynamic farming in the USA, and knows a thing or two about weeds ... For gardeners, there is also some good advice on weeds in compost heaps.' -- Network Review
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (1899-1961) was born in Munich. He visited the USA several times in the 1930s, was awarded a doctorate for his groundbreaking Sensitive Crystallisation theory as a blood test for detecting cancer, and emigrated there in 1940. He pioneered biodynamic agriculture in the USA and helped found the Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association. He died in Spring Valley, New York.
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Intriguing idea, but lacking
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The concept is fascinating --- that the types of weeds on a farm can tell you what's wrong with your soil and/or management techniques. However, I ultimately found the book disappointing, mostly because the actual data could be summed up on a single page. The rest of the short book was devoted to very obvious or very environmentally-unfriendly techniques of weed control, plus descriptions of weeds that weren't sufficient to work as a field guide and also didn't add much to the thesis.
I was hoping that an updated edition would be modern, but I think all the editors did was add in a brief introduction and then introduce a lot of typos. (Maybe the typos were in the original --- I don't know.) The price seemed very high for 90 pages.
I was hoping that an updated edition would be modern, but I think all the editors did was add in a brief introduction and then introduce a lot of typos. (Maybe the typos were in the original --- I don't know.) The price seemed very high for 90 pages.
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