The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner batches, grow heaps, comforter compost, and other amazing techniques for saving time and money, and producing ... most flavorful, nutritous vegetables ever.

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By: Barbara Pleasant and Deborah L. Martin
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Barbara Pleasant and Deborah L. Martin turn the compost bin upside down with their liberating system of 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 less 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 how the elements of a composted garden work together.

A natural Six-Way Compost Gardening System provides the ruling principles for successfully improving every garden with healthy compost. Readers will learn how to:

1. Choose labor-saving sites that keep gardens and compost piles as close to one another as possible.

2. 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.

3. Help composting critters do their work by balancing ingredients, adding high-nitrogen meals when needed, and keeping the compost moist.

4. Reuse recycling bin items, such as large plastic buckets and cardboard boxes, as composting equipment.

5. Keep diversity in the mix. The magic is in the variety of the components and how they work together to create "gardener’s gold."

6. Customize 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 flavor, and flower beds into rich tapestries of bountiful blooms all season long.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date: 13th February 2008
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 320
Ean: 9781580177023
Isbn: 1580177026

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USER REVIEWS

Not what I expected
~ Written on Nov 16, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Although there is a lot of different information in the book it, in some instances, just briefly describes the technique, but offers no pictures or examples. Also, sometimes the descriptions of "How To" are not descriptive enough for me. I am a highly visual person so I need to also see what they are describing.

Wonderful
~ Written on Oct 4, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Great book for anyone who does gardening. I wasn't much into the worm farm in my house but to each it's own.

A bit "cutesy", but informative
~ Written on Jul 6, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

This is a very good collection of information, describing methods of composting suited to diverse living situations from inner-city apartments to country homesteads. The authors take composting "out of the box" and suggest ways in which imaginative readers can devise composting projects adapted to their own individual situations.

I personally thought that the alliterative names, such as "Banner Batch", "Treasure Trench", "Honey Hole", etc., were rather contrived and "cutesy" - getting in the way rather than helping the reader to understand and remember the concepts being presented - but once you get past the stylistic quirks, the information itself is quite useful.

Compost finally explained
~ Written on Jun 17, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

I have had compost issues for years. I have made every mistake possible and now I understand why. I was making composting much more difficult than it really is.

Before you buy a composter, buy this book. You will understand what works and what doesn't. You really don't need a $300 compost bin to have great compost.

Takes Composting to A New Level
~ Written on May 7, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

I was hoping this book would offer something "more" than the other books and articles I have read. Forget just the basics of composting, this book provides the how-to for almost any situation you could encounter. Its great for the owner of a small lot to the owner of acres. I've already started putting some of the techniques into practice and hope to have some useful brown gold by the end of summer. Other techniques I am also trying will take longer but don't require any active participation on my part.
This book fits your needs no matter what your level of involvment or your lot size.

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