
The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Part 1: Getting Started with Compost Gardening
- 1 Gardening in Garbage
- Seeing Is Believing
- Who Owns Compost?
- Why Compost?
- Can You Have Too Much?
- Secrets from the Rhizosphere
- Bold Bacteria
- Fantastic Fungi
- Health Food for Soil
- Composting Fast, Composting Slow
- Getting Intense
- 2 Tools for the Composter's Garden
- The Composter's Tool Shed
- Five Foundation Tools for Your Composter's Garden
- Tools for Transporting Materials
- Tools For Cutting and Chopping
- Maintaining and Monitoring Tools
- Evaluating Your Compost
- Knowing Your Needs
- 3 Materials for the Composter's Garden
- Getting to Know Compostable Materials
- Importing Solutions, Not Problems
- Balancing Browns and Greens
- Composting Your Way to a Better Garden
- Gathering the Goods: Start in the Kitchen
- Turning Garden Refuse into Garden Rewards
- Composting Ailing Plants and Weeds
- Leaves and Pine Straw
- Composting Grass Clippings
- Composting Manure
- Hay and Straw
- Paper and Cardboard to Compost
- Wood Chips and Sawdust
- Purchasing Compost
- Compost Activators
- Odds and Ends for the Composter's Garden
- What Not to Use
- Adventures in Composting
- Part 2: Compost Gardening Techniques
- 4 Banner Batches
- Making Compost in Piles, Heaps, Bins, and Pens
- Making Fast Banner Batches
- Working with Slow Banner Batches
- Resourceful Compost Enclosures
- Curing Finished Compost
- 5 Comforter Compost and Grow Heaps
- Working with Comforter Compost
- Managing Moisture
- Getting Started with Grow Heaps
- Grand Finales for Comforter Compost and Grow Heaps
- 6 Composting Underground in Craters, Trenches, and Holes
- The Compost Problem Solver
- Secrets of the Subsoil
- Working with Layered Craters
- Pretty Pits-of-Plenty
- Working with Treasure Troughs
- Hardworking Honey Holes
- Digging into Compost Gardening Methods
- 7 Catch-and-Release Vermicompost
- Vermicompost Basics
- The Who's Who of Garden Earthworms
- Getting Started in Catch-and-Release Vermicompost
- Fostering Worm-Colonized Compost Heaps
- Keeping Worms in Indoor Bins
- Caring for Captive Worms
- Harvesting Finished Vermicompost
- Sifting and Storing Vermicompost
- Best Uses for Vermicompost
- Staying Focused on the Big Picture
- 8 Making the Most of Your Compost
- The Whys and Hows of Compost Screening
- Getting Rid of Unwanted Seeds
- Is Compost Your Cup of Tea?
- Using Compost to Make Special Soils
- Making Special Soils
- Rejuvenating Designer Dirt
- Composting in Wild Company
- Do Animals Make Compost?
- Hosting Garden Allies
- Part 3: Plants for the Composter's Garden
- How Plants Interact with Compost
- The Legume Family
- The Tomato Family
- The Cucumber Family
- Compost Fodder Crops
- Appendix
- Glossary
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- Further Reading from Compost Gardeners
- Compost Gardening Resources
- Hardiness Zone Map
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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