The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
All Types Of Compost
This book goes into great detail about all phases of composting and offers good ideas on placement, various methods of composting, and different ways to grow directly in compost.
Move It Closer
The book makes the case for locating your compost bin closer to the garden than normal. Instead of sticking the bin in a forlorn corner of the yard, and dragging compost to and fro, they advocate for the labor saving step of having the compost right there.
Thinking Outside The Bin
The authors also offer several ideas on different methods of composting from the old fashioned bin to composting in a garbage can that you roll around every few days to get a good mix. I also liked their ideas on compost piles that you grow directly into like Comforter Compost and Grow Heaps.
Grow Right In Your Pile
The last chapters of the book are devoted to vegetables that can be grown in the various methods described in the book. I’m going to give their Layered Crater approach a try for my potatoes this year.
Get It You’ll Love It!
I heartily recommend this book
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I am new to composting and this sounds like a very useable book.
I am a kind of a fly by the seat of my pants composter. I have three bins going but I don’t follow the rules and just whatever I feel like. I am sure I would benefit from the schooling of this book!
I’ve had a small compost pile for a couple years, but still consider myself a rookie. This book looks interesting.
Again, awesome sight with great info. Composting for me is a foreign idea at this time. Hopefully I will be able to gain the knowledge to make the most use of all this information.
Another great post/book reccomendation. I appreciate your viewpoints.
I would like a chance at winning this book:) Thanks!
Have just recently started composting and need all the help i can get!
Compost is FUN!! I have developed an unhealthy relationship with my Worms. I love them and when I die, will be glad to offer my body for them to feast on.
If you like, Check out Sep Holzers, Farming with raised beds. When you consider that in nature, all that ‘compost’ is broken down within a year, its an easy way to start building your gardens surface area. Pile that “compost’ in future raised beds, large rows, for next years planting. Its ALL GOOD, just different. 🙂 Dont forget the mulch and the worms. Mulch and worms are the masters of compost. And if you dont want to have a big pile, its ok to put your daily kitchen compost directly into the garden beds if you have enough worms. Add the mulch and worms will come. Even if you dont have a ton of worms in your soil, spreading the daily kitchen in the garden will give them something to eat and ring the dinner bell. If you can find someone with Horses, cows, chickens and pigs, the manure makes excellent compost accelerators. Straw bales make excellent Compost ‘containers’ if your going for a bigger pile. Make a big U with the bales and start pouring your mess in the middle. water some. As the pile shrinks, you will be able to pick flakes off the bales and ‘feed’ it to the pile. You will also begin to find worms living up in the moist part of the bales for even better decomposition. Too wet a pile is worse than too dry a pile. Error on the dry side, It will take longer, but wont stink as bad, and the slower decomp will trap more, better, goods than leaching out the bottom.
I’ve been wanting to get a book on composting! I hope I win this. I’ve just set up the first compost bin I’ve ever had on soil. I’ve done a little bit of composting on my balcony in the past to very limited success. Now I have a yard and I’m eager to get this art/science project going and feeling like I may be getting some things wrong. I need a good reference book on my shelf.
I’ve relied heavily on the local composting facility for years. Unfortunately last fall there was a chance that their compost was contaminated by the herbicide Imprelis which is long lasting and potentially very damaging. I will give credit to the facility, they shut down compost distribution and are waiting until spring and testing before resuming being open to the public. Points out the need to become more self-sufficient in compost making! Good book recommendation!
Looking into the whole composting thing here in the “big” city as well and think I would find this book very helpful.
Just starting my journey into a more self sufficient lifestyle, putting my seed order together for our first “big” garden! This book sounds like just what I need to help have a successful first year!
Been wanting to start my own compost pile & this book looks like a great resource!
I would love a chance to expand our homestead library. Compost should be more than the pile I kind of take care of.
Great Book, I too am looking forward to trying the Layered Crater technique.
Can’t wait to read this one. It will be a great addition to my gardening library.
I’m convinced that a person can never have to many books. I don’t have a book on compost in my library yet. This sounds like a great book, and I look forward to having it in my library soon.
That looks like a great book. Would love to win a copy.
I started composting this year, and I also would like some tips, especially now that it’s winter.
A well needed and great edition to our library as my family embarks on owning and working our small farm. thank you for the opportunity and happy holidays! 🙂
I would love to win this book. It sounds like an interesting read.
Thanks!
I love books. I’ve never tried composting but have wanted to for some time. I need to do some reading on it so this book would come in handy.
Sounds like a helpful book. I am going to start composting soon. Its crazy how much of what we throw away can be repurposed
I can’t read or learn enough on this subject, or anything about gardening :D. This book sounds like a perfect addition to our self sufficiency libraries.
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Yes! Please!
This book looks really informative. I’ve been composting a few years now, but I feel like my compost methods could definitely use some improvement!
Thank you so much! I am so excited! Yay! Happy holidays!
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