Composting: How Organic Gardeners Let it Rot and Make Homegrown Humus: Organic Gardening Beginners Planting Guides
By Gaia Rodale
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“Composting: How Organic Gardeners Let it Rot and Make Homegrown Humus” shows you how to take nature’s way of recycling organic matter and give it a boost. By creating the ideal conditions for decomposition, composting systems speed up the process, turning kitchen scraps and yard waste into high-quality humus in a matter of weeks. This “black gold” can then be used to amend the soil, which increases its ability to hold water and nutrients.
#1 bestselling author Gaia Rodale gives you the information you need to pick the right composting system for your garden, build it out, and manage it to maximize the composting process. From outlining the different ways to compost to explaining how composting works, everything you need to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into good old fashioned dirt is on these pages.
After reading this guide, you will know:
- Why composting is important to organic gardeners, and may be one of the best examples of the concept, Reduce, Recycle, Reuse.
- The most important factors for successful composting, there’s more to it that tossing scraps onto a pile in the backyard
- What can be composted and what can’t, this is super important for the health of you garden and your family
- The difference between hot and cold composting, the time difference here is amazing
- What vermicomposting is and when it is beneficial, this method is great for people with little space and can even be done completely indoors
- The different types of composting systems, yes there is more than one
- How long it takes to create high quality compost, the varies widely based on the method you use
By the end of this book you will know the different types of composting and how they work, the benefits and drawbacks of each, the different types of composting systems and which of those systems is best for you. You will also know what you can and can’t compost and how to diagnose the most common backyard composting issues.
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Composting - Gaia Rodale
Introduction
I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading, "How Organic Gardeners Let it Rot and Make Homegrown Humus."
For an organic gardener, a backyard compost pile offers two major benefits. First, it creates a free, organic soil amender that is known to improve soil structure and help produce hearty, healthy plants. Second, it cuts back on the gardener’s environmental footprint by recycling about 30% of the material they would be sending to a landfill. When you factor in all the other great things about composting, it is definitely a win-win-win.
Composting takes nature’s way of recycling organic matter and gives it a boost. By creating the ideal conditions for decomposition, composting systems speed up the process, turning kitchen scraps and yard waste into high-quality humus in a matter of weeks. This humus can then be used to amend the soil, which increases its ability to hold water and nutrients.
This guide provides you with the basic information you need to start your own composting system. From explaining how composting works and what factors make the process go faster or slower, to providing answers to common composting problems, this guide gives you the information you need to pick the right system and get started composting today.
By the end of the book, you will know the different types of composting and how they work, the benefits and drawbacks of each, the different types of composting systems and which of those systems is best for you. You will also know what you can and can’t compost and how to diagnose the most common backyard composting issues.
When you’re finished reading, you will have the tools you need to start turning your kitchen scraps and yard waste into black gold!
Happy Growing!
Gaia Rodale
Composting 1o1
It is safe to say that composting has been a part of human culture since the first person intentionally planted a seed in the hopes that they could grow something edible. It is a basic agricultural practice that many of us are as unfamiliar with as we are with other things everyone used to understand like animal husbandry or how to make bread from scratch.
However, as more and more people choose the path of organic gardening to grow some or all of their own produce, the ability to create high quality compost