"The encyclopedia of bio-indicator food and medicinal plants, Guide to soil diagnosis, Volume 2 | Gérard Ducerf"

In this volume 2, Gérard Ducerf presents 250 additional bio-indicator plants illustrated with over 1500 color photos. Each species is described and illustrated with numerous color photos to help you better recognize and identify them. For each plant, its natural habitats "primary biotopes," adaptations "secondary biotopes," bio-indicator characteristics, as well as its medicinal properties and edibility are also specified.

This book is accessible to everyone.

It is a field tool made by and for field people, including gardeners. The soil is a complex organism: here we have simple bases of understanding and immediate practical applications.

Medicinal properties and soil life relationships:

Plants also speak about our health. Where there is illness, there is also a remedy. Dandelions grow in soils overloaded with organic matter and they treat liver congestion caused by excessive food intake.

Instead of weeding, let's eat them!

How to transform tedious weeding into a delicious harvest? Raw or cooked, the weeds will bring variety of tastes and colors to your plate. For each species, you will find the parts to use, their taste qualities, and warnings about possible confusion with other species. The major families of edible plants and their main genera are presented in volume 2.

Cultivated weeds, these unwanted plants we often want to get rid of, actually provide valuable information about the soil they grow in. To highlight the relationships between soil and plants, reading keys are necessary: this book offers you the opportunity to discover them and to help you diagnose your soils on your own.

When plants speak to us about the soil:

Volume 2 explains in more detail the methodology for carrying out these analyses.

Managing organic matter, providing solutions to various soil life problems are more extensively described, and the characteristics of different agricultural environments are presented.

A more comprehensive glossary will help you understand botanical terms.

Wild cooking:

Even more recipes for salads, pies, fritters, jams, and many other dishes will guide you towards new culinary pleasures.