Compost Book

Compost to Make Humus The essence of soil fertility! Soil Growing!

With Jade Woodhouse

Bin compost

This is the book I love best! I love it because it is the most important book of all! I believe every person should have this book and would benefit greatly from it and so too would our soil and environment. It doesn’t matter if you have a dozen books on compost making or this would be your first one, this book is a must have.

I am a passionate accomplished Humus maker and I believe and know that Humus is the answer for our soils health, our health and the survival of our planet.

Feeding the soil - earth friendly gardening with Jade

Jade making compost using
her pen system

The book offers you a technique and method that will make you a successful colloidal humus maker. You will produce superior quality compost. I have written this book hopefully to suit all. From the may-be interested, to the raw beginner venturing out into the garden for the first time, right through to the compost enthusiast. The book has been written with passion, excitement and confidence. The book is inspiring, motivating and educational. You will realise that compost making can be successful and that your end product is extremely beautiful, something to be proud of and emotional about. You will feel the honour of being part of the compost making process, this book and method will get you hooked on compost making. It will change your opinion of what compost is and how you garden.

An up to date, valuable book. Intensely informative, yet readable and understandable.

I am offering you a chance of a lifetime. I’m offering our soil future and every being future. By making Compost to Humus and applying it to our soil, we are growing the soil up to sixty times as fast as would occur naturally. Using Natures method.

Jades hay bale system makes large quantities of humus

Jades Static Heap making good quality Fungi dominated compos

BOOK CONTENTS ~ We need better soil, what is Humus, Humus’s important role in the soil, Organic Matter, Let’s look at what we are creating, understanding what you are going to achieve, soil pH, Humus makes minerals available to the plants, the Chelation process, what does it mean Colloidal Humus, our health from the soil, what does Humus Do, why Humus and not compost, benefits of a compost system, how Humus is produced, Hot and/or Cold Humus, Benefits and considerations of Hot compost systems, Benefits and considerations of Cold compost systems, An example list of Compost systems, Factors that effect compost quality, Bacterial Dominated Humus and Fungal Dominated Humus, Necessities and Requirements for compost making, Air. Moisture. Temperature, Temperature and Size, Location, Extremes in climate, Start the Compost on, Hydrogen ions in Compost – pH, Nutrients needed, Materials to use in your compost, Herbs for minerals in your compost, Weeds for the compost, You can learn from your weeds,

Paul & Jade monthly make
compost & harvest Humus

Weeds that I Collect and Do use in the compost, Other materials you may consider, Things I don’t Recommend, Activators, Examples of Activators, Inoculation, Preparing to make the compost, Collecting the materials, Making the Compost! Jade ’s Technique! How many Systems and which one/s, What Jade Needed for 2 ¼ acres. How much Humus do I need and how many compost systems, Herb teas and Herb tea application, Incubation time! How long does it take, How will I know when it is ready, A heap of problems, Application of Humus will give fertile, healthy, living soil, Using finished compost. Applications of Humus, Maintaining Soil Humus levels.
How do we Know if humus is being made in our soils, The factors that will influence Humus formation in your soil, Keep composting on, Recipe references. Photos throughout.

Compost To Make Humus The essence of soil Fertility!
Soil Growing with Jade Woodhouse. April 2004
Spiral bound, soft cover book, A4, black and white printed including photos, double sided, and 59 pages.

This book is Priceless! Cost $22 plus $5 postage, packaging and handling. Jade Woodhouses self published books are only available from her.

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