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| Authors: Grace Gershuny, Deborah L. Martin
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 956012
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 278
Number Of Items: 1
ASIN: B000GYI1W4
Publication Date: January 15, 1992
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new book
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not for the small-scale, backyard compost operation August 22, 2006
Tony the Tour Guy
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
If all you plan to do is improve your garden using kitchen scraps and some yard waste, this book is not for you. It is very technical, and best-suited to those with lots of space and time on their hands to manage large composting projects. Don't let this be your first book on the subject, since it will probably (wrongly) convince you that you need a Masters in Agriculture or Ecology to do accomplish what will naturally happen if you get any of a number of inexpensive composting bins, toss in some banana peels, coffee grinds and dead leaves, mix in some dirt and let the microbes get to work.
 Awesome book for any serious gardener September 23, 2005
MotherLodeBeth (Sierras of California)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a serious gardener I appreciate well written books that I can own and have in my book shelf for yearly reading. And Rodale is a well respected publisher of gardening books.The subtitle says it all 'Easy methods for every gardener'.
This means even apartment dwellers with a porch or patio can have a small compost setup. The book covers numerous ways to construct a composter as well as the many types of organic or natural materials one can compost. Even cardboard in moderation, as well as the traditional eggshells, coffee grounds, banana peels, vegetable and fruit scraps.
The book also discusses year round composting and how and why composting works and the positive environmental impact of everyone have some type of a compost set up. This is one of those books every serious gardener should have or at least buy, read and donate to ones public library.
If you buy no other compost book... September 17, 2004
Roger (NH United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the one you want. Everything you need to know about compost is available to you here, from the small household garden to municipal waste disposal programs.
Most of the book deals with the biochemistry of compost, teaching you how to maintain and balance your fertilizer.
The Rodale Book of Composting:Easy Methods for Every Gardener July 28, 2005
J. A. Davies (Marion, UT)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
What a great book! Easy to read, lots of information and even gives you idea's on building your compost bins. If you are a gardener and are planning on composting you really should buy this book.
It really is the Bible of composting June 11, 2006
GlennFABF (Upstate NY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the most thumbed-through book on composting I have. Easily 90% of anything you would want to know about composting is inside this book. A small amount of the material may not be useful to the typical gardener, but it is interesting none the less. An excellent guide for the beginner and a good reference for the advanced composter.
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