- Co-op available
- Galleys available:
- Long lead, trade publications, and sales reps
- Digital Galley on Edelweiss
- National advertising
- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Mother Earth News, Hobby Farm
- National print campaign
- Mother Earth News, Hobby Farm, Acres USA, Growing for Market, Permaculture Design Magazine, American Gardener, Growers & Co.
- Online/social media campaign
- Facebook Live event and giveaway with author
- Outreach to horticultural societies, gardening and homesteading organizations, groups, and websites.
- Live forum on Permies.com
- Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube
- Promotion via authors YouTube channel
- Promotion on podcasts focused on gardening Support author during in-person and virtual events/workshops
- General eBook marketing plans
- eBook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales
- eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed
- publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media
- Planned vendor or price promotions where appropriate
- Excerpts in
- Mother Earth News, Hobby Farm, Acres USA, Growing for Market, America Gardener, Savvy Gardening
- Promotion through the author's website: http://www.GardenMyths.com
- Bookseller/Library promotions
- Established Author: 6 previous gardening books including Building Natural Ponds which has sold over 5,000 copies, and Soil Science for Gardeners which has sold 8,000 copies
- Master Gardener with 40 years' experience: owner of 6-acre botanical garden with over 3,000 varieties of plants
- Large Social Media Following: author's Facebook page, Garden Fundamentals, has a large following of 12,000; Author's YouTube channel has 44.4 K subscribers; author's blog, Garden Myths, has over 14,000 visitors
- Well-known lecturer and speaker: to Master Gardener groups, horticultural societies, orchid societies, and garden shows
- Up-to-Date Information: includes state-of-the-art information including new science about microbes that live inside leaves and roots.
- Differs from other gardening books because:
- Discusses the role of microbes in all plant life, including soil, above ground and in surrounding ecosystem. Most books focus only on soil microbes.
- Describes the living symbiotic relationships between microbes and plants, including communication techniques used by plants to attract beneficial microbes
- Applies scientific knowledge to practical gardening techniques
Your garden's little helpers – the role of microbes in growing great plants
Microscopic organisms are as important to plant growth as water and light. Microbe Science for Gardeners highlights the essential role of microbes in plant biosystems and soil health, provides practical how-to gardening advice for enhancing plant microbiomes, and debunks common gardening myths.
This accessible guide goes beyond soil biology to examine the crucial role of microorganisms in cultivating a productive garden. Coverage includes:
- The vital interrelationships in microbe populations and between microbes and plants
- Understanding microbes such as bacteria, yeast, mycorrhizal fungi, and protozoa, both in the rhizosphere and above ground
- Scientific breakthroughs about microbes that live in the leaves and roots of plants, forming symbiotic relationships
- How practices such as tilling, crop rotation, and mulching affect the microbe community
- How the savvy gardener can influence microbial colonies to encourage beneficial organisms while discouraging those that cause disease or other undesirable effects
- An objective, common-sense analysis of recently popularized practices such as controlling fungal-to-bacterial ratios and applying biostimulants, compost tea, or plant probiotics
- Prevention and cures for dozens of bacterial, viral, and fungal plant diseases.
Whether you're a home gardener, market gardener, or micro-farmer, Microbe Science for Gardeners will help you leverage the incredible power of the mighty microbe to grow healthy, strong, thriving plants.
Chapter 1: The World Under a Microscope
Chapter 2: Bacteria
Chapter 3: Fungi
Chapter 4: Nematodes
Chapter 5: Yeast
Chapter 6: Protozoa
Chapter 7: Viruses
Chapter 8: Lesser-known Microbes
Chapter 9: Microbe Communities
Chapter 10: Microbes Love Plants or is it Plants Love Microbes?
Chapter 11: Probiotics for the Garden
Chapter 12: Bacterial Diseases in Plants
Chapter 13: Fungal Diseases in Plants