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Composting
Soil Conditioning Books
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Teaming with Microbes
(Lowenfels / Lewis)
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants and become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial, often toxic, substances. But there is an alternative to this vicious cycle. We can garden in a way that strengthens the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. |
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Teaming with Microbes extols the benefits of cultivating the soil food web. First, it clearly explains the activities and organisms that make up the web. Next, it explains how gardeners can cultivate the life of the soil through the use of compost, mulches, and compost tea. The revised edition updates the original text and includes two completely new chapters — on mycorrhizae (beneficial associations fungi form with green-leaved plants) and archaea (single-celled organisms once thought to be allied to bacteria).
With Jeff Lowenfels's help, everyone — from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals — can create rich, nurturing, living soil.
Jeff Lowenfels teaches home gardeners about the soil food web with a painless and extremely entertaining method. After just one hour, his audiences know how to return beneficial biology to their soils and why it is necessary to do so.
Wayne Lewis is a lifelong Alaskan gardener. He has worked with Jeff on many projects over the past 25 years, including the now national Plant a Row for the Hungry program (started in Anchorage by Jeff), which encourages gardeners to donate a portion of their harvest to charitable organizations in their community.
Hardcover, 220 pages. Book measures 6 x 9 inches (230 x 150 mm) and contains 88 color photos, plus 18 charts and diagrams. |
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Order #689113
Teaming with Microbes
(Lowenfels / Lewis)
24.95 |
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Basic Composting
(Ebeling)
You don't need a science degree or a shed full of sophisticated equipment to make quality compost. All you need is some know-how, a pile of organic materials, and a little bit of elbow grease. Nature does the rest.
This ring bound book lies flat for easy reference and is a complete guide to composting tools and techniques. Step-by-step instructions for making perfect compost. Easy-to-follow plans for homemade composting bins and lots of suggested uses for for your finished compost. 87 pages. Softcover. |
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Order #9865283
Basic Composting
(Ebeling)
16.95 |
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Let It Rot!
The Gardener's
Guide To Composting
3rd Edition (Campbell)
This is the classic guide to turning household waste into gardener's gold! Since 1975, Stu Campbell's highly recognized Let It Rot! has helped countless gardeners recycle waste materials including household garbage, grass clippings, and wood ashes to create dark, rich, useful, and soil-nourishing compost. 153 pages. Softcover. |
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Order #LETROT
Let It Rot!
3rd Edition
(Campbell)
11.95 |
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Secrets to Great Soil
(Stell)
A Gardener's Guide to Composting, Mulching, and Creating Healthy, Fertile Soil for Your Garden and Lawn! Learn all the secrets for creating fertile, productive soil anywhere. With more than 300 detailed illustrations and at-a-glance charts, Secrets to Great Soil solves all your soil problems and gives you techniques for year-round soil building. |
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| You'll find the basics of soil pH and nutrients; quick methods for making compost; instructions for using organic mulches, soil amendments and fertilizers; ways to customize your soil for a variety of vegetables, flowers, fruits, trees, shrubs and lawns. An excellent resource. Softcover, 215 pages. |
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Order #0012901
Secrets to Great Soil
(Stell)
19.95 |
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Worms Eat My Garbage
2nd Edition
(Appelhof)
This revised how-to guide, after the sale of more than 100,000 copies of Worms Eat My Garbage (1982), reflects her interactions with worm workers in many countries and updates information on worms working for you.
Prepared by master's degrees in biology and education, Mary has spent the past 25 years working with earthworms to develop a system for using redworms to process organic waste. |
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As a leader in recycling and composting, she has received the National Recycling Coalition's "Composter of the Year" award and Renew America's special merit for the environmental success of her work.
In this book, Mary shares her secrets on composting with the novice, teaching the reader how to recycle kitchen food waste, produce rich worm castings for fertilizer, and grow fishing worms. Readers following Mary through this informative, light-hearted book will become worm experts too! Excellent companion to our Wormtopia composter. Paperback; 162 pages with charts, diagrams, illustrations, and glossary. |
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Order #WOREATGAR
Worms Eat My Garbage
(Appelhof)
12.95 |
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