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| List Price: www.amazon.com's Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Average Customer Rating: 4.5 Lowest New Price: $11.76 Lowest Used Price: $11.77 | Features• ISBN13: 9781580177023• Condition: New • Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed There's hopeThis book has all types of useful information relating to composting and gardening. If the information given is true, our rose gareden should be easy care and healtier with less expense.good bookA lot of pages about composting with a lot of made up words about types of composting that I found irritating. I would suggest the book, however be advised that if you know much about composting then this book will not help you learn a lot moreNot what I expectedAlthough 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.WonderfulGreat 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 informativeThis 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. Product DescriptionBarbara 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. Read more... Similar Products:The Vegetable Gardener's Bible (10th Anniversary Edition)Easy Composters You Can Build The Worm Book: The Complete Guide to Gardening and Composting with Worms Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener | |