Organic Gardener
Organic Gardener's Composting
作者：Solomon, Steve, 1942-
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字数：322,550 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 110 题- Created by: Steve Solomon ssolomon@soilandhealth.org
- Organic Gardener's Composting
- Foreword
- Ann Lovejoy, Bainbridge Island, Washington, 1993
- To My Readers
- CHAPTER ONE
- What Is Compost
- Making Compost
- An Extremely Crude Composting Process
- CHAPTER TWO
- Composting Basics
- Making Humus
- Nutrients in the Compost Pile
- C/N of Various Tree Leaves/Needles
- False acacia 14:1 Fir 48:1
- Black alder 15:1 Birch 50:1
- Gray alder 19:1 Beech 51:1
- Ash 21:1 Maple 52:1
- Birds's eye cherry 22:1 Red oak 53:1
- Hornbeam 23:1 Poplar 63:1
- Elm 28:1 Pine 66:1
- Lime 37:1 Douglas fir 77:1
- Oak 47:1 Larch 113:1
- C/N of Compostable Materials
- CHAPTER THREE
- Practical Compost Making
- Hot Composting
- Surface Area of One Gram of Soil Particles
- Balancing C/N
- The Fertilizing Value of Compost
- GROWing the plant
- Analyses of Various Composts
- Source N% P% K% Ca% C/N
- CHAPTER FOUR
- All About Materials
- About Common Materials
- Evaluating Nitrogen Content
- CHAPTER FIVE
- Methods and Variations
- Containers and Other Similar Methods
- Building Your Own Bin
- The U.C. Method--Grinder/Shredders
- Sheet Composting
- Mulch Gardening
- Shredder/Chippers and other power equipment_
- Troy-Bilt Manufacturing Company, 102D St. & 9th Ave., Troy, NY 12180
- Gardens Alive, 5100 Schenley Place, Lawrenceburg, Indiana 47025
- Gardener's Supply Company, 128 Intervale Road, Burlington, VT 05401
- Ringer Corporation, 9959 Valley View Road, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
- Smith & Hawken, 25 Corte Madera, Mill Valley, CA 94941
- CHAPTER SIX
- Vermicomposting
- Locating the Worms
- Containers
- Bedding
- Soil
- Redworms
- Setting Up a Worm Box
- Feeding the Worms
- Seasonal Overloads
- Vacations
- Fruit Flies
- Maintenance
- Garbage Can Composting
- PART TWO
- Composting For The Food Gardener
- Introduction
- A Brief History of the Organic Movement
- Today's Confusions
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- Humus and Soil Productivity
- How Humus Benefits Soil
- The Earthworm's Role in Soil Fertility
- Microbes and Soil Fertility
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- Maintaining Soil Humus
- Fertilizing Vegetables with Compost
- Humus and the Nutritional Quality of Food
- Climate and the Nutritional Quality of Food
- Soil Mineral Content by Climate Area
- Average Nutritional Content by Climate
- HEALTH = NUTRITION IN FOOD DIVIDED BY CALORIES IN THAT FOOD
- HEALTH = Nutrition/Calories = Calcium/Potassium
- Fertilizing Gardens Organically
- Composition of Organic Fertilizers
- Making and Using Complete Organic Fertilizer
- 1 part by volume: Bone meal or rock phosphate
- 1 part by volume: Lime, preferably dolomite on most soils.
- CHAPTER NINE
- Making Superior Compost
- A Little History
- Curing the Heap
- Sir Albert Howard's Indore Method
- The Indore Compost Factory
- Soil and Urine Earth
- Crop Wastes
- Manure
- Charging the Compost Pits
- Pits Versus Heaps
- Temperature Range in Normal Pit
- Age in days Temperature in degree C
- Period in days for each fall of 5i C
- Temperature Range No. of Days
- Total 97 days
- Turning
- Making Indore Compost in Deep and Shallow Pits
- Inoculants
- Bibliography
- On composting and soil organic matter
- Of interest to the serious food gardener