Stu Campbell

Let It Rot!

The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the classic guide to turning household waste into gardener's gold! Since 1975, Let It Rot! has helped countless gardeners recycle waste materials like household garbage, grass clippings, and ashes to create useful, soil-nourishing compost.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing
• 3rd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781580170239
• ISBN-10: 1580170234
• Artikelnr.: 21679258

Autorenporträt

The late Stu Campbell lived and gardened in Stowe, Vermont. He was the author of Let It Rot!, a guide to home composting with over 340,000 copies in print; Mulch It!; and The Home Water Supply.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Home Composting: Art or Science?
2 Why Compost?
3 How Decomposition Works
4 Compostable Materials Are All Around You
5 Activators Get Things Cooking!
6 Composting Methods to Stimulate Your Imagination
7 Bins, Barrels, and Tumblers
8 What to Consider Before Building a Compost Pile
9 Methods to Speed Decomposition
10 Composting Concerns
11 The End Product and How to Use It
12 The Times, They Are A-Changin'
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