Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130532 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Book Jacket
Over 160 informative and clear step-by-step photographs illustrate all you need to know about making and using compost. Anyone can do it! 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, beautiful fruit, vegetables and flowers. Save it, rot it and learn to love it!

Synopsis
There has been a strong revival of interest in gardening without chemicals following media coverage of the harmful results of using pesticides. This book shows you how to make the best of compost by re-cycling your household and garden waste.'

Customer Reviews

A useful book whith practical advice
Unlike the last reviewer I found this book was enough to make the difference to my composting efforts. I had tried many times but always ended up with lumpy, slimy, unuseable waste. I tried some of the ideas in the book (cardboard, turning the compost, for example) and for the first time had compost I could safely put on my plants. I bought it for my brother and he liked it too.
Yes it is simple but sometimes that is what you need - a few simple steps to follow with no confusing details to distract you. And there's nothing complicated about compost!
I did think the last chapter on recycling was spectacularly naff and didn't fit in with the rest of the book, but overall well worth buying. I'm thinking of trying a wormery next...

Very visual.... better suited for kids perhaps?
There nothing really wrong with this book, but even as a beginner gardener there was very little in it that I didn't already know. A very visual book, lots of pictures but short on substance. I read through it in roughly 15 minutes and was left with the feeling its target audience was really 10-14 year olds.

Colourful, light and entertaining, but not a resource if you want to get serious about composting. Its saving grace could be to get your kids interested in helping out in the gargen.