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Compost (Organic Gardening Basics) [Paperback]

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Series: Organic Gardening Basics | Publication Date: April 7, 2001

Let the editors from Rodale Organic Gardening-- the world's leading authority on organic techniques-- show you how to build a compost pile, troubleshoot compost complaints, keep toxins out of your pile, and use compost to produce healthy soil and plants without using chemicals.

1 go organic!
2 essential tools
3 key ingredients
4 helpful decomposers
5 building a pile
6 troubleshooting
7 enriching the soil
8 commercial compost

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Compost
Rodale Organic Gardening Basics

Let the editors from Rodale Organic Gardening-- the world's leading authority on organic techniques-- show you how to build a compost pile, troubleshoot compost complaints, keep toxins out of your pile, and use compost to produce healthy soil and plants without using chemicals.

Product Details

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Rodale Books (April 7, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0875968562
ISBN-13: 978-0875968568
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces

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This is the ideal book for the beginning composter. Everything you want to know about basic composting is in here, plus some. It's well organized for easy reference and has lots of full-color pictures to fully describe what composting is and how it's done.

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cool compost, finished compost, hot composting, commercial compost, compost ingredients, compost tea, municipal compost, much compost, compost pile, worm bin, kitchen scraps, composting process, apple pomace, making compost, adding compost, mushroom compost, grass clippings, sow bugs, garden wastes, fish waste, compost bin

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Cape Cod by William Martin in Back Matter
Organic Gardening by Geoff Hamilton in Front Matter
Peaceful Valley : The Story of Kamiah's Early Years by Virginia Woods Meyer in Back Matter
Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides) by Stu Campbell in Back Matter
Secrets to Great Soil (Gardening Skills Illustrated) by Elizabeth Stell in Back Matter

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