Compost Book

Designed to provide beginning gardeners with everything they need to know about organic methods, the Organic gardening Basics series organizes the best information from six decades of Organic Gardening magazine into convenient and accessible single-topic volumes. Each guide contains a fully-illustrated calendar that takes readers through each process day-by-day and allows them to chart their progress. Each region is covered in detail.

Compost is the foundation on which every successful organic garden is built. This beginner's guide includes clear, concise instructions on how to build a compost pile and how to use compost, a discussion of why compost is so integral to organic gardening, information on regional compost-making materials, and a month-by-month compost care calendar. Written in layperson's terms, it reduces compost-making to simple tips and techniques that are unintimidating and easy to follow.