Barbara 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.
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