Customer Reviews

Basic Composting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics) (How To Basics)

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
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This is the perfect book for the beginning composter. With plenty of pictures and easy step by step instructions this book teems with information. Purchased with "The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener" you have all you need for a great preliminary knowledge base on the subject. I highly recommend this book for those who are interested in getting started fast!

As simple as it gets! How to create compost, How to build a compost bin (or which to buy), What IS compost and how do you create successful piles. Great for someone on a budget. Step-by-steps are great and the content is easy to understand. I built one of the bins in the book in a few hours. Highly recommend this for those starting out.

This book is awesome! It has the information you need to know about every stage of creating great compost. The photos are wonderful. The science behind composting is explained well so that you can understand why the mix of materials is important and which materials should not be included. Also well described are the different choices in compost bins... which work the best... which are the least expensive, etc. Using this book as a reference will help anyone become proficient in creating this valuable garden additive.Basic Composting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics) (Basic How-to Guides)

This is a very helpful book to have at your side when composting and is simple enough for us that are just beginning to compost. I am a very science-y, down-to-the-nity-gritty-biology kind of guy so some of of it seems too simplified. That's why I didn't give the fifth star. But, all in all, it really is a good book and I like the spiral bound style that allows it to stay open while you are actually in the process of composting. I am now in search of a more detailed book about vermiculture (worm-poop ranching!)

This book is very basic. A majority of the book is pictures. I was going to check the book out of the library, but I didn't need to because I read the entire book standing at the shelf. If you are going to take the time and money to order something then I would order something else.

I liked this book because I AM a beginner composter, and I didn't want a book that had a whole lot of information in it. I just wanted to know who I should get started and, well, the basics. It lives true to it's name. And it was a short read.

This is a very good book for those beginning to compost. It gives you the basics of what materials to use and not use and how they break down. Great reference!

This book is excellent for beginning composters. I'm still gathering supplies and learning all of the vocabulary and this book was very helpful for that. I definitely recommend it.

good book overall; good book to get started with composting. If you are looking for a detailed book about composting this is NOT the book for you. Very helpful in understanding the basics.

I have recently purchase a few books about composting an this one it's a very nice one.
This book has everything you need to know in a very simple pictorial guide.