Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea : Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm （Revised and updated）

Gershuny, Grace/ Langer, Jocelyn (ILT)

Chelsea Green Publishing Co（2011/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 104 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781603583473
• DDC分類 631.875

Full Description

What are the advantages of making one's own compost? Is there really a benefit to using compost as opposed to building soil organic matter through other means? How can the decision about compost making affect a farm's economics? Part of the NOFA Guides series, this manual will help answer these questions, and is specifically intended to address the conditions faced by organic farmers in the Northeast.

Information on composting techniques, including:

Principles and biology of composting
Temperature, aeration and moisture control
Composting methods
Materials (additives and inoculants, biodynamic preparations)
About costs (site preparation, equipment, labor and time)
What do you do with it?
Compost tea and other brewed microbial cultures
Compost and the law

With extended appendices including a recipe calculator, potting mix recipes, and a sample compost production budget sheet.

Contents

1. Why compost?

2. Principles and biology of composting

3. Temperature, moisture, and aeration

4. Composting methods

5. Materials

6. About costs

7. When is compost finished? and how is it applied?

8. Compost tea and other brewed microbial cultures

9. Compost and the law