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Garden Organic Guide to Making Compost
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The Garden Organic Guide to Making Compost

Pears, Pauline
ISBN-10: 1844484653
ISBN-13: 9781844484652

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Learn how to keep your plants strong and healthy, how to produce beautiful fruit, vegetables and flowers, and how to keep your patio and house plants healthy. The book guides your through all the stages, from why you should compost, what you can compost, building a simple heap and containers, to how to use your compost, supplementing your compost with green manures, and how to retain water.
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Introduction
Why recycle organic waste?
Nine good reasons why you should recycle organic waste
What you can compost
The most common materials that will compost
What you cannot compost
Materials that will not compost, but may be recycled
Compost bins
What makes a good compost bin
Illustrations of many homemade and commercial compost bins
Waste materials and how they compost
Household, garden and farm wastes
Activators, the rate of decomposition and the effect on the growth of plants
How to make compost
The bit-by-bit heap
Trenching
Making quick compost, with step-by-step instructions
Composting in hot and cold climates
How weather affects composting
Worms that gobble waste
Worms
Starting a worm bin
Feeding your worms
Problem solving
How to use compost
How to apply compost
How much to use
Where to use it
How to make and use leaf mould
The benefits of leaf mould in the garden
Lawns and grass mowings
Mowing
Recycling as a mulch
Adding to the compost
Turning your lawn into a wild flower meadow
Hedge clippings and prunings
Composting
Using shredders
Mulching
Seed and potting composts
Homemade mixes
Compost recipes
Making your own loam
Pasteurising soil
Comfrey
All about a remarkable plant
Green manures
Details of twelve green manures
How to grow them
How they affect the soil and your crops
Other ways to recycle household waste
Make your own seed trays and pots from household waste
Use throw-aways to create useful objects
Index

List price: $15.95
Edition: 2009
Publisher: Search Press, Limited
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 48
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.55 lbs.
Language: English

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