Bountiful Gardens - books on composting, soil fertility, soil analysis, cover crops & permaculture

The most important crop you can grow is healthy soil and the best fertilizer you can give it is home-made compost! Our research shows that for sustainability at least sixty percent of your garden should be in crops that will provide not only food for you, but also compost for your soil. Building a compost heap should be the first step in beginning any garden. This section contains books and supplies for composting, simple soil analysis, cover crops/green manures, and permaculture

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BCO-1163

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide

Barbara Pleasant and Deborah Martin, 2008, 320 pp
Full of innovative techniques, including every possible way to build a compost pile, this is a book that both beginners and experienced gardeners will learn from. Includes a chapter on using worms in composting.

$19.95

BCO-1130

Edaphos:

Dynamics of a Natural Soil System
Paul D Sachs, 1999, 201 pp.
Our garden manager, Carol Cox, recommends this for those who are working toward sustainability and want to understand what’s going on in the soil. This lively and clear treatment of the subject gives the reader access to years of research, and an understanding of the big picture as well as the details.

$14.95

BCO-1140

Worms Eat My Garbage

Mary Appelhof, 1987 (2nd ed.), 162 pp.
All the worm growers we know recommend this book as the simplest and most complete on raising worms and making compost at the same time.

$12.95

BCO-1165

Roots Demystified

Robert Kourik, 2008, 165 pp.
Subtitled “change your gardening habits to help roots thrive,” this is a book full of surprises! Includes drawings made by plant ecologist John Weaver of the amazing root systems that are under all garden plants, even the lowly lettuce. Knowing how deep the roots grow, and how far they spread, helps us to understand how we need to work with the soil for the best growth. This book has a lot of good information about improving your soil and selecting the right plants for the right sites, and it’s written with humor and warmth.

$25.00

BCO-1150

Comfrey for Gardeners

Jill Schnabel, 1990, 16 pp.
A booklet from Henry Doubleday Research Association on comfrey. Covers growing it, and using it in the garden as a plant nutrient and compost ingredient. Recommended by garden manager Carol Cox.

$5.00

BCO-1160

Composting for the Tropics

Henry Doubleday Research Assoc., 1963, 30 pp.
An excellent short booklet on composting in tropical climates – this went out of print but it is so useful that we obtained permission to reprint it.

$2.50

BCO-1200

Weeds and What They Tell

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, 1970, 96 pp.
The presence of certain weeds can tell the gardener what the soil is like where they grow. This little book goes through each weed family and also includes many uses of weeds, both medicinal and agricultural. An introduction to a topic covered more fully in Test Your Soil with Plants, previous page.

$9.95

BCO-1210

Bio-Dynamic Sprays

H H Koepf, 1971, 16 pp.
Recipes for the standard sprays recommended by Bio-dynamic gardening experts, for feeding the soil and plants.

$5.50

BEA-0032

Booklet 32:

GROW BIOINTENSIVE^(R) Composting and Growing Compost Materials
Ecology Action Staff, 2004, 35 pp.
Revised version of discontinued booklets 10 and 23. This book details our research into producing the highest quality compost from crops grown in your own garden. All that we have learned in the past 14 years has been included.

$8.00

BEA-0012

Booklet 12:

Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer
EA staff, 1984, 140 pp.
We’ve had increasing requests for a book on how to grow your own fertilizer from common materials. Over 90 of tables on the fertilizer potential of common home, garden and farm materials. Many places in the world (US also) simply cannot easily get commercial or prepared fertilizers. Get independence in your garden.

$11.75

BEA-0016

Booklet 16: Foliar Feeding

Foliar Feeding
Peter Donelan, 1988, 9 pp.
A consideration of how to get the most from your crops through foliar feeding, with several easy-to-make-at-home recipes for sprays.

$1.50

BEA-0022

Booklet 22:

Grow Your Manure For Free
John Jeavons & Bill Bruneau, 1990, 12 pp.
An excellent and concise summary on growing compost crops to improve your soil’s fertility. Highlights ten exceptional crops and their respective advantages, with tips on how to plant and compost them.

$2.50

BEA-0029

Booklet 29:

Test Your Soil With Plants
John Beeby, 1997, 86 pp.
Discover how you can tell what fertilizers to use to optimize your garden’s health and productivity, simply by observing the plants growing in your garden.

$15.00

BTR-1670

How to Make a Forest Garden

Patrick Whitefield, 1998, 168 pp.
How to make a garden more like a natural ecosystem with permanent plantings. The garden is created using three stories of plants; trees, shrubs, and perennial vegetables and herbs. The trees and shrubs produce fruit and nuts, and the vegetables grow underneath, with the final effect being of a natural woodland.

$29.95

BEA-0340

Future Fertility:

Transforming Human Waste Into Human Wealth
John Beeby, 1995, 164 pp.
Returning the nutrients in human waste back to the soil from which they came is essential for the sustainability of agriculture worldwide. This detailed and practical manual describes both established and innovative low-technology methods of safely and effectively recycling the nutrients in human waste. More importantly, it describes the principles behind the methods, and criteria that any method must meet for safety and sustainability. A must for those interested in transforming their waste into wealth in the future.

$23.95

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