Complete Compost Gardening Guide by Barbara Pleasant; Deborah L. Martin
	List Price:   $19.95 Unit Price:   $15.96 You Save:   $3.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   1580177026 ISBN-13:   9781580177023 Publisher:   Storey Publishing, LLC Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   February 2008 Pages:   320 Format:   Trade Paper
Subjects
COMPOST ORGANIC GARDENING
Description/Notes
Barbara Pleasant and Deborah 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 back-breaking 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 labour-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 recycyling bin items in composting projects.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 technques, 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 flowers beds into rich tapestries of bountiful blooms all season long. Compost, gardener's gold, is the heart of any good gardening system. 'The Complete Compost Gardening Guide' takes the mystery out of composting and shows gardeners how to compost their way to a garden that requires less digging, weeding, mulching, and even planting. Introduces several new techniques for cutting out the middle-man (the compost bin) and composting where it counts--directly in the garden--saving precious time and making it easier to compost than ever. This will be the most thorough, comprehensive category-killer on composting techniques and methods available. Pleasant and Martin turn the compost bin upside down with their liberating system of keeping compost heaps right in the garden, instead of in some dark corner behind the garage. Thus the compost and the plants live together from the beginning in a nourishing, orgnic environment, and the compost-rich garden requires less work done to it. Turn the compost bin upside down! The nutritious, organic diet your garden craves is as simple as creating compost heaps right in the garden. Plants and compost live together in labor-and time-saving harmony, producing bright, sweet, juicy vegetables all season long.