Offers the principles for improving gardens. This book helps the readers to learn how to: choose labour-saving sites; work with the compostable riches produced at home; help composting critters do their work by balancing ingredients; reuse recycling bin items; keep diversity in the mix; and, customize composting to suit specific garden needs.
Offers the principles for improving gardens. This book helps the readers to learn how to: choose labour-saving sites; work with the compostable riches produced at home; help composting critters do their work by balancing ingredients; reuse recycling bin items; keep diversity in the mix; and, customize composting to suit specific garden needs.
Develop mature compost right in your garden. Barbara Pleasant and Deborah Martin explain their six-way compost gardening system in this informative guide that will have you rethinking how you create and use your compost. With your plants and compost living together from the beginning, your garden will become a nourishing and organic environment that encourages growth and sustainability. You ll also find that the enriched soil requires less tending, weeding, and mulching, so you can do less back-breaking work for the same lush, beautiful results.
A long-time compost enthusiast, Deb Martin enjoys trying new and different ways to transform organic materials into rich, soil-building goodness for the garden. From the busy binful of worms in her basement to the pallet-framed yard waste heap out back, she always has something rotten going on! A garden writer and editor for many years, Deb has contributed to numerous books and magazines, including Organic Life, Pennsylvania Gardener, and GROW: The Magazine of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and is co-author of The Complete Compost Gardening Guide. Barbara Pleasant has written about organic gardening and self-sufficient living for more than 30 years. Her books include Starter Vegetable Gardens, The Complete Compost Gardening Guide, The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual, The Gardener s Bug Book, The Gardener s Weed Book, and The Gardener s Guide to Plant Diseases.
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.
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