Synopsis
Composting is the practical art of making healthier and more colorful gardens while reducing your dependence on polluting chemicals. The latest discoveries in organic, environmentally aware forms of gardening offer no-smell, no-cost ways to make nature's decomposition processes work for you. Make your own true "new miracle plant food" by mixing eggshells, grass cuttings, and banana skins, and other waste, and making insects work for you. The simple new approach features a show-and-tell guide to building a compost box, selecting the best ingredients, choosing the ideal accelerator, and distributing the compost to supply maximum nutrients to your plants, and ensure soil aeration, water retention, and drainage.
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Clare Foster is Garden Editor at Home & Garden magazine and a freelance garden journalist. She spent 10 years at Gardens Illustrated magazine, latterly as Editor, and has written three books: From Bud to Seed: Perennials and From Bud to Seed: Annuals (Conran Octopus 2001) and Compost (Cassell Illustrated 2002). After having her own allotment in West London for many years she has recently moved to the countryside to expand her vegetable plot. Author lives: Oxfordshire, England
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Together with the benefits that well-made compost provides, the practice of compost-making becomes as fascinating as the practice of gardening itself. -- Beth Chatto
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