Most of what determines whether your garden thrives is invisible. It happens underground, in the dark, in a world so complex and so densely populated that a single teaspoon of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on Earth.
Understanding even a small part of what happens in this underground ecosystem changes the way you garden — and explains why some practices that seem logical actually undermine the very system that makes plant growth possible.
The soil food web.
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