How to Build, Maintain, and use a Compost System : : Secrets and Techniques you Need to Know to Grow the Best Vegetables
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What is composting? -- Getting started -- The science of composting -- Outdoor compost bins -- Building a compost pile -- Maintaining a compost bin -- Using compost -- Vermicomposting -- Winter and indoor composting -- Troubleshooting.
Some of the best fertilizer on the planet can be made with your very own garbage. Starting with something as simple as coffee grounds a top composting product and using all of your old banana peels, bread crusts, and leftover meals, you can start creating a garden with your food waste from scratch. Knowing the necessary steps to building and cultivating a compost bin will help anyone with a garden, no matter its size, cut down on waste, save money on fertilizer, and have fun learning more about the cycle all biodegradable matter goes through. This book provides a detailed outline explaining how anyone with a little extra space and a garden can start composting today to build their garden into a thriving jungle of roots, herbs, and vegetables.
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Back to basics growing.
PUBLISHED
Ocala, Florida : Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781620230138
1620230135
SUBJECTS
Compost.
Vegetable gardening.