Kelly Smith

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

Publisher Marketing: Some of the best fertilizer on the planet can be made with your very own garbage. Starting with something as simple as coffee grounds a top composting product and using all of your old banana peels, bread crusts, and leftover meals, you can start creating a garden with your food waste from scratch. Knowing the necessary steps to building and cultivating a compost bin will help anyone with a garden, no matter its size, cut down on waste, save money on fertilizer, and have fun learning more about the cycle all biodegradable matter goes through. This book provides a detailed outline explaining how anyone with a little extra space and a garden can start composting today to build their garden into a thriving jungle of roots, herbs, and vegetables. You will learn about all of the different ways that composting can be helpful to you, as well as the different reasons why people choose to compost and how you and your vegetables will benefit from when you decide to make the leap and start composting yourself. You will learn how decomposition works and the ideal conditions for decomposition. You will learn which compostable materials are around you right now, from the coffee grounds in your coffee maker to the old fruit in your crisper. Learn about the different kinds of activators and how they start the process as well as the different composting materials used by home gardeners and professional composters alike dozens of whom have been interviewed for this book. You will be walked through the process of recognizing and using the end product as effectively as possible, how you can effectively take your end product and start using it for various different vegetables in your garden and the process of recognizing and using the end product as effectively as possible. For anyone who has ever considered composting as a viable means by which to feed their gardens, this book is for you. Contributor Bio:  Smith, Kelly Kelly Smith, Pharm. D., B. C. P. S., F. A. S. H. P., F. C. C. P ( is affiliated with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Nickole N. Henyan, Pharm. D. is a clinical pharmacist at University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, MD. Daniel Riche, Pharm. D., B. C. P. S., CDE Univeristy of Mississippi Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS