How to Build, Maintain, and Use a Compost System

Feb. 25, 2011 - PRLog -- Contact

Amy Moczynski
Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
Phone: 352-622-1825
E-mail: amoczynski@atlantic-pub.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 25, 2011

How to Build, Maintain, and Use a Compost System: Secrets and Techniques You Need to Know to Grow the Best Vegetables

With the first day of spring just weeks away, soon gardeners across the country will break out their gloves, trowels, and seed packets to begin working on this year’s harvest. While some gardeners may be content with using traditional fertilizers or mulches to keep their plants in first-class shape, there is a more natural — and less expensive — option available: compost. Compost can not only help gardeners reuse some common items that are typically thrown in the trash, thereby reducing the amount of trash placed in landfills, but it also offers gardens a wealth of beneficial nutrients and microorganism. Compost has even become so popular that Dutch shoemaker OAT Shoes has created a biodegradable shoe that can be composted once its wearer no longer needs it. The shoes, which are made out of cork, hemp, biodegradable cotton, and other environmentally friendly items, also contain seeds in the shoes’ tongues, allowing these green shoes to sprout new greens.

For gardeners who are not interested in purchasing biodegradable footwear but still wish to add beneficial organisms to ensure their plants spring up healthy and vibrant, what do they need to know to begin composting? With How to Build, Maintain, and Use a Compost System: Secrets and Techniques You Need to Know to Grow the Best Vegetables, author Kelly Smith explains everything gardeners need to know before starting their compost heap. Smith tells readers what items can — and cannot — be placed in compost heaps, as well as the ideal location for the heap. She also examines the different composting systems available, such as the traditional heap system, trenches, tumbling bins, digesters, and even indoor composting options for those living in apartments or with limited yard space.

Once readers start collecting items to contribute to their compost heap, Smith explains the science behind composting and how activators can accelerate the decomposition process. Readers will know what tools they will need to maintain their compost heaps, as well as how often they should turn, or aerate, their compost to speed along the decomposition. Once the compost is ready to apply to the garden, Smith explains ways gardeners can utilize their nutrient-rich compost and even ways to create compost tea. So whether homeowners are interested in creating a free, nutrient-rich additive for the garden or are interested in finding a way to reuse coffee grounds, cardboard, and food scraps instead of trucking them off to the landfill, How to Build, Maintain, and Use a Compost System has everything readers need to know to create this black gold.

Author: Kelly Smith
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
1405 SW 6th Ave
Ocala, FL 34471
ISBN 13: 9781601383549
CIP: 2010034382
Pages and Binding: 288; Soft cover, perfect bound, recycled, acid free, alkaline free paper
CD-ROM: No
Retail Price: 24.95
Street Pub Date: March 2011

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