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	composting inside and out Stephanie Davies The Comprehensive Guide to Reusing Trash, Saving Money and Enjoying the Benefits of Organic Gardening. "Composting Inside and Out" will help homeowners, farmers, and landscapers reduce the need for water, fertilizers, and pesticides. This guide is beneficial to anyone who grows houseplants, maintains a large garden, or participates in community gardening. In addition, it explains why it's important to compost, the many methods of composting and the benefits of turning rubbish into soil nutrients. 256pp more on composting Price: £9.99
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	composting Bob Flowerdew Composting is an excellent way to recycle kitchen and garden waste and to help your garden flourish. As Bob Flowerdew explains, any organic materials can be used, such as plant trimmings, vegetable cuttings, eggshells and teabags. He demonstrates just how easy it is to build your own compost bin and use the compost to help your garden grow. The composting process produces a dark, crumbly matter that can be used as fertiliser in garden soil. Bob explains the each step of the process, from different recipes for creating organic compost, to the effects it has on different plants. This is a great guide for those wanting to start composting for the first time, and also packed with advice on utilising your existing compost heap. In "Composting", one of an indispensable series, Bob answers all your queries in his usual practical, inventive and straightforward manner. 96pp more on composting Price: £9.99
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	the compost specialist David Squire In recent times, people have become much more ecologically aware and also more keen to minimize their carbon footprint. This, coupled with the pressure from governments to recycle household waste, means that creating and using garden compost is becoming almost essential knowledge.This guide gives gardeners all the information they need about starting to make their own compost, storing it and using it. Information on different types of compost - what they consist of, what they are good for and how they are best stored - is given, before moving on to explore in detail how to create your own compost. Guidance is also given for those who wish to construct their own compost bin. There are specific chapters explaining wormeries and green manuring, as well as a wealth of information on seed and potting composts.This is a really thorough guide for anyone wanting to make and use their own compost. 80pp more on composting Price: £4.99
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	how to make and use compost: the ultimate guide Nicky Scott Composting is easy, fun, saves you money and helps you to grow lovely plants. Whether you live in a flat with a balcony or have a family and garden that generate large amounts of food and green waste, this books shows you how to compost everything that can be composted - at home, work or school, and in spaces big or small. It covers: - creating the right mix for successful garden compost - how to compost your food waste safely - the full range of composting systems, from plastic 'daleks' to large-scale units, including prices and suppliers - composting with a wormery - making liquid feeds and your own seed and potting compost - composting in schools, with advice on getting a school scheme started. How to Make and Use Compost features a comprehensive A-Z guide, which includes what you can and can't compost, concepts and techniques, and common problems and solutions. 128pp more on composting Price: £9.95
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	compost Clare Foster Clare Foster demystifies the art of composting. She covers everything from building a compost box to selecting the best ingredients; from choosing the ideal accelerator to maintaining the optimum conditions for decomposition; and from household and garden rubbish to the best soil improver around. By taking some dead leaves, grass cuttings and old banana skins and enlisting the help of bacteria, insects and nature, you can improve and enrich your soil, feed your plants and nourish your vegetables, restoring the natural balance of life in your garden. 128pp more on composting Price: £7.99
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	the garden organic guide to making compost Pauline Pears This book guides you through all the stages, from why you should compost, what you can compost, building a simple heap and containers, to how to use your compost, supplementing your compost with green manures, and how to retain water. Beautifully illustrated, with step-by-step photographs and illustrations throughout, the pages are packed with practical advice and helpful information. This title features strong recycling theme and strong revival of interest in gardening without chemicals following media coverage of the harmful results of using pesticides, etc. Pauline Pears runs/oversees the organic gardening centre - HDRA. 48pp more on composting Price: £7.99
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	create compost Pauline Pears A lovely little book providing a great introduction to composting. It includes everything from choosing or making a compost bin, siting your compost and how to spot problems - plus of course practical advice on where and when to use compost in the garden. 48pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £2.99
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	composting: an easy household guide Nicky Scott "a fabulous little guide" - The Green Parent A full-colour guide for both beginners and experienced composters, this book includes everything you need to know about composting, from the different containers that are available, and what to put in them, to how to use your compost and what to do if you want to get more involved in the process. Also included is a full A-Z reference section. 96pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £4.95
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	backyard composting John Roulac Composting allows you to do something for the part of the Earth you live with day by day: your own back garden. This book follows basic values, such as putting things where they belong and not making a mess. Composting at home reduces your personal volume of rubbish, conserves water, increases plant growth, replaces the need for toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and is also fun. While you may not win an "environmental hero of the year" award, your trees, earthworms, butterflies and other flora and fauna will be grateful for your composting achievements. The book also introduces the various types of composting bins and accessories, explaining the pros and cons of each type and giving instructions for building one from scrap materials. 96pp more on composting Price: £4.95
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	the rodale book of composting: easy methods for every gardener Deborah L. Martin and Grace Gershuny One of the most comprehensive books on composting, this book will tell you absolutely everything you need to know from the history of composting through to compost structures, composting with worms, and using manure. 278pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £9.99
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	all about compost: recycling household and garden waste (3rd revised edition) Pauline Pears Over 160 informative and clear step-by-step photographs illustrate all you need to know about making and using compost. Learn how to save money, help the environment and enrich even the smallest garden by recycling household and garden waste. There is plenty of practical advice on how to create a rich, fertile soil for growing healthy and beautiful fruit, vegetables and flowers. 48pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £7.95
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	let it rot! the gardener's guide to composting Stu Campbell 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. 160pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £8.99
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	the compost book (new edition) David & Yvonne Taylor Did you know that charcoal makes a great slow-release plant food? Or that yoghurt speeds up compost activity and that chamomile keeps your heap smelling sweet? In 'The Compost Book' the authors, David & Yvonne Taylor, divulge the secrets of good compost-making. They also discuss what can and cannot be composted, whether to encourage or discourage the living things haunting a heap, as well as bins, boxes, tumblers, shredders and munchers. 85pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £8.99
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	holy shit: managing manure to save mankind Gene Logsdon In this insightful new book, farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure - our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure, but also spends a staggering amount of money doing so. He argues if we do not learn how to turn our manures into fertiliser to keep food production in line with our increasing population, our civilisation will inevitably decline. With his trademark humour, his years of experience of writing about both farming and waste management, and his uncanny eye for the small but important details, Logsdon artfully describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure and human manure, to make fertiliser and humus, covering a multitude of topics. 272pp more on composting Price: £14.95
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	soil Charlie Ryrie The Gaia Organic Basics series is endorsed by the Soil Association, the UK's principle organisation promoting organic agriculture and horticulture, and the organic organisation - HDRA (Henry Doubleday Research Association). Ideal for town or country gardeners with special topics covering small and urban gardens; Specially commissioned photographs; An original series covering organic gardening in a modern, fresh and vibrant syle; Handy size pocket books provide expert quick reference for practical gardeners; Gaia Organic Basics is an important new series for every gardener who wants to learn how to create a healthy and thriving organic garden. Highly practical, the four books in this series take the mystery out of organic gardening with straightforward explanations of principles and techniques. Designed for beginners as well as more advanced gardeners who want to leave chemicals behind, these titles offer an organic way to cultivate soil, to make one's own compost and to control pests and weeds. Full colour photography illustrates the practical aspects of creating an organic garden and their handy pocket size make these books an expert quick reference for practical gardeners. Whatever the style or size of garden, these books give all the information necessary to take the natural road to a beautiful, lush and fully organic garden. 62pp more on composting Price: £5.99
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	liquid gold: the lore and logic of using urine to grow plants (2nd edition) Carol Steinfeld This entertaining and fact-filled book tells you how urine - which contains most of the nutrients in domestic wastewater and usually carries no disease risk - can be utilized as a liquid manure: recycle, save water and energy, and prevent pollution, all at the same time! Steinfeld begins with a short history of urine use from ritual to medicinal, to even culinary, and shows how urine is used worldwide to grow food and plants, while protecting the environment, saving its users the cost of fertilizer, and reconnecting people to the land and the nutrient cycles that sustain them. 128pp click on image for contents page more on composting Price: £4.95
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