The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
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Barbara Pleasant
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Deborah L Martin
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Colour illustrations
320 pages
Publisher:
Storey Publishing, USA
September 2008
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Turn the compost bin upside down with this natural Six-Way Compost Gardening System for keeping compost heaps right in the garden, rather than in some dark corner behind the garage. The compost and the plants live together from the beginning in a nourishing, organic environment. The authors’ bountiful, compost-rich gardens require less digging, weeding, mulching and even planting. And here’s one of the best parts — no more backbreaking slogs from compost bin to garden. The authors even identify the plants that benefit most from compost and explain how the elements of a composted garden work together.
Readers will learn how to:
- Choose labour-saving sites that keep gardens and compost piles as close to one another as possible
- Work with the compostable riches produced at home. Every yard and kitchen produces plenty of material — easily identified with at-a-glance charts — for a great start
- Help composting critters do their work by balancing ingredients, adding high-nitrogen meals when needed, and keeping the compost moist
- Reuse recycling bin items, such as large plastic buckets and cardboard boxes, as composting equipment
- Keep diversity in the mix. The magic is in the variety of the components and how they work together to create 'gardener’s gold'
- Customise composting to suit specific garden needs, always concentrating first on soil care
Adhering to these guidelines, Pleasant and Martin bring readers on a thorough,informative tour of materials and innovative techniques, leading the way to an efficient and rewarding home gardening system. Their methods are sure to help gardeners turn average vegetable plots into rich incubators of healthy produce, bursting with fresh flavour, and flower beds into rich tapestries of bountiful blooms all season long.
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