This is your complete guide to the fascinating world of composting.
Step-by-step instructions help you divert over 30 percent of your total home waste from landfills, simply by composting kitchen, yard, and garden waste. Home composting is made easy with this concise guide.
If you've never composted before, this handy booklet is a perfect introduction. It has all the information you need to start producing high quality compost today.
Why would you send organic waste to an ugly, polluted landfill when you can use it to help you grow beautiful flowers, delicious vegetables, and healthy trees and shrubs?
Compost is known to gardeners as "black gold" because it is so valuable for growing plants . Using compost in your garden can help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides by making your plants healthier and with stronger immune systems.
This
compact book is written by garden and compost education professionals with over 50 years combined experience.
It's 32 pages long and has
dozens of illustrations and useful charts .
Book Contents Include Subjects Like: What is Compost?
Benefits of Compost
Compost: Key to Nutrition
Composting Systems
Sitting Your Compost Area
What to Compost
The Carbon/Nitrogen Ratio
Composting: A Quick Start Guide
How to Compost: Grass Clippings, Food Scraps, Leaves and Weeds, Garden Debris
Worm Composting
Using Finished Compost
Troubleshooting Chart
Home Waste Management You find this and much more in this great guide.
Composting is one of the best ways to help the environment and your garden at the same time by reducing the waste you send to the landfill and recycling it back into your soil.
Gardening How To Magazine, May/June 2012Read the article
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