Let It Rot: The Gardener's Guide to Composting

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This is the classic guide to turning household waste into gardener's gold! Since 1975, Let It Rot! has helped countless gardeners recycle waste materials like household garbage, grass clippings, and ashes to create useful, soil-nourishing compost.
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This is the classic guide to turning household waste into gardener's gold! Since 1975, Let It Rot! has helped countless gardeners recycle waste materials like household garbage, grass clippings, and ashes to create useful, soil-nourishing compost.
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A readable, quietly humorous introduction to composting, this covers reasons to compost; differing approaches; how decomposition works; various methods, ingredients, and containers; how to speed decomposition; and how to use the end result. Campbell is an experienced gardener, and the book goes into great detail, but the text remains clear and interesting. The simple black-and-white illustrations vary between decorative sketches and straightforward diagrams; they could have been more frequent and more informative. The bibliography lists 14 other books on composting; a list of sources of composting supplies is also given. An interesting treatment of a basic subject for general readers, this is recommended for all gardening collections needing material on compost heaps.-- Sharon Levin, Univ. of Vermont Medical Lib., Burlington
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781580170239
  • Publisher: Storey Books
  • Publication date: 1/3/1998
  • Series: Storey's Down-To-Earth Guides Ser.
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 161,113
  • Product dimensions: 6.06 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.44 (d)

Meet the Author

Stu Campbell is an accomplished gardener and the author of The Home Water Supply, Let It Rot!, Mulch It!, and Improving Your Soil.
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Table of Contents


1 Home Composting: Art or Science?

2 Why Compost?

3 How Decomposition Works

4 Compostable Materials Are All Around You

5 Activators Get Things Cooking!

6 Composting Methods to Stimulate Your Imagination

7 Bins, Barrels, and Tumblers

8 What to Consider Before Building a Compost Pile

9 Methods to Speed Decomposition

10 Composting Concerns

11 The End Product and How to Use It

12 The Times, They Are A-Changin'

Sources

Suggested Reading

Index

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 29, 2008

    Best book on composting!

    'Let it Rot' is the best booklet on composting I have ever read. (I have had two copies for about 20 years). It is concise, easy to read and follow, gives just about every type and kind of composting there is, with the descriptions and instructions on making your own compost. But that is not all - the book is truly inspirational, letting the reader truly understand the mechanisms of the composting process, especially how very natural it all is, and how easy it is for anyone to make fertilizer out of those ubiquitous lawn clippings, weeds, prunings, hay, leaves, and other organic material that we tend to waste by throwing it all out in the trash. Just reading the book makes you want to go out and compost right away! With your own compost, you make what we gardeners call, 'black gold' - the very best fertilizer of all! And it is free.

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  • Posted August 31, 2009

    Great intro to composting

    I thought the subject was well presented. There is enough info to get the average person comfortable to start composting in their yard. There was some more in depth info as well for those of us who want a little more than bare bones. Written in a light and easy style.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 5, 2008

    If you buy one book on composting this should be it!

    I own a number of books about composting but this is the best I've read for the beginning composter. It contains sufficient detail to give you a good understanding of the why's, when's, and how-to's without being overly technical. Every aspect of composting is covered from how to build a number of composting bins and which are the best free materials to include in your compost, to which compost activators are best.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2000

    This book is okay, but not if you are trying to find information on compost and decomposting

    This book basically tells you about how to bulid compost piles . Like what to and not to put in the compost piles. It even tells you how to build a compost pile. This book I think needs to be more about compost and decomposting. Otherwise it is alright!

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