Perfect Compost: The Complete Guide To Composting At Home

By Always Perfectly Grown

"Perfect Compost - the complete guide to composting at home" is the perfect guide for anybody interested in composting. Whether you have never composted before or have tried to compost unsuccessfully in the past, this guide is a one-stop guide to making great compost. This comprehensive guide takes you through all steps from what can be composted, types of composting through to the use and benefits of compost in your garden. This describes many different ways to compost to provide a solution to suit the gardener with the large sprawling garden, and that of the gardener with a small patio and potted plants. It describes a section on vermicomposting - the use of worms to compost, along with a section on compost tea, a great secret weapon in your gardening arsenal. This guide also contains a handy troubleshooting section to allow you to spot and cure any problems that may occur during composting. This guide contains a wealth of hints and tips, and highlights many of the common mistakes composters often make. Compiled by seasoned horticulturists and gardeners, with this guide you will have Always Perfect Compost.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Always Perfectly Grown
• Release date: Sep 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311614698

Always Perfectly Grown

Always Perfectly Grown guides are written by seasoned gardeners and horticulturists. Fed up of seeing folk making the same mistakes over again when gardening we decided to lay down our gardening tools and take to our computers to compile useful and practical guides. Follow these guides and your fruit and vegetables will be Always Perfectly Grown. Happy Gardening! (and reading!)Friend us on Facebook and enjoy more great tips and hints - www.facebook.com/APGguides

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PERFECT COMPOST

The Complete Guide to Composting at Home

An Always Perfectly Grown Guide

PERFECT COMPOST

The complete guide to composting at home

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Compost Basics

3. What can and can’t be composted

4. Methods of composting – hot, cold, hybrid

5. How to build your compost pile: layers, location and ratios

6. Types of composting – tumblers, bins, piles

7. Compost Tea

8. Vermicomposting

9. End use of compost

10. Troubleshooting

11. Other guides by the author

1. Introduction

Compost is probably one of the most versatile things for a gardener to have around his or her garden. This nutrient-rich material can be used to improve soil texture, give a boost to your growing fruit and vegetables and can help the planet by reducing your garbage load. It’s little wonder compost is often referred to as "black gold". However if you ask most gardeners if they compost at home, you’ll be more-than-likely met with a "I’d like to but don’t know how or a I guess I probably should"

If you’re one of these composters who has tried unsuccessfully in the past or a wannabe composter who hasn’t had the confidence to start, then help is at hand! Perfect Compost – the complete guide to composting at home takes the mystery out of composting and teaches everything you need to turn your waste into your gardening secret weapon.

This complete guide shows you how to compost perfectly every time. It shows the best hints and tips, and highlights many of the common mistakes people make when composting. This guide takes you through all the steps required, from what to put in your compost heap (and importantly what things not to put in), to various composting recipes and methods of composting, including vermicomposting – composting with worms. It also contains a section on how to speed up your compost along with a helpful troubleshoot guide to let you check on the health of your compost with advice on how to rectify things to ensure you get a perfect result every time.

Whether you’re a patio gardener or have sprawling garden, you can benefit from some homemade compost, and right now is the perfect time to start! Whether you’ve got hedge trimmings in spring, grass cuttings in summer, fallen leaves in fall or vegetable scraps in winter, your compost bin can happily turn this into gardening gold.

Always Perfectly Grown guides are compiled by seasoned horticulturists and gardeners. Fed up of watching people make the same mistakes when growing their own crops, these guides were compiled to provide a complete guide to growing fruit and vegetables, so that from now on, your fruit and vegetables will be Always Perfectly Grown. There are three other titles in our bestselling series, so look out for our other titles on growing strawberries, peppers and tomatoes online. We’d love to hear from you and learn about your growing, so follow us on twitter (@AlwaysPerfectly) and friend us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/APGguides).

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2. Compost Basics

What is compost?

Compost is a rich, dark, crumbly soil-like material with a slightly sweet smell.