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Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides)

15 reviews
Stu Campbell

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998

Creating the best garden ever starts at the bottom
Composting, in case you aren't terribly familiar with it yet, is simply the practice of allowing waste matter to rot and decompose until it's fit to be tilled right into the soil. However, while the basic concept is as old as mother nature and often very easy to execute, it also helps to know more about it. What materials should you compost, and which should you avoid? Do you have to worry about ...

The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It

6 reviews
Stu Campbell

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1983

A great source for home water system design and storage.
This book covers nearly every situation one may encounter in water procurement, perhaps the only subject not covered is hauling water to a completely dry site. The focus of this book is necessarily on shallow wells, as deep wells require professional drilling, never the less the author covers well pumps, casing, storage devices and filtration systems with enough technical detail to meet most ...

Mulch It!: A Practical Guide to Using Mulch in the Garden and Landscape
Stu Campbell

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2000

Weeding. Watering. Soil improvement. Frost and heat protection. Wouldn't it be wonderful if these gardening and landscaping chores could be simplified with one easy method? They can! This book is a reader's guide to the gardener's secret weapon for healthy, carefree and beautiful gardens and landscapes - mulch. Advice on every kind of mulch and on how to use mulches on everything from landscape plantings to vegetable gardens makes this the one ...

Improving Your Soil: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-202 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-202)
Stu Campbell

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

The Underground House Book

1 review
Stu Campbell

Garden Way Pub Co, 1990

Reference for building an energy-efficient underground home
"The Underground House Book" is typical of its time (1980), prompted by the Persian Gulf oil embargoes of the 1970s. With oil prices skyrocketing finding a way to build houses that would use less energy took on greater priority. In this book author Stu Campbell waxes prophetic, assuming that in a few years most new construction would be earth-sheltered. That of course didn't happen. But the ...

The Mulch Book: A Complete Guide for Gardeners (Down-to-Earth Book)

1 review
Stu Campbell

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991

How to mulch effectively and inexpensively
As a novice gardener, I found this book to be extremely informative and inspiring in my quest to create the perfect mulch. The quick reference guide is very useful in that it provides necessary information about each type of mulch, such as decomposition speed, soil moisture retention and relative cost. I also found the section of definitions especially helpful in trying to determine the best ...

Good Things to Know . . . About Gliding on Snow

1 review
Stu Campbell, Tim Petrick

Mountain Sports Press, 2000

Cheat sheet for snowsports!
If you take notes everytime you have a lesson or reach a breakthrough, your notebook will eventually become this book! As a ski & snowboard instructor myself, I can confirm that this book includes all the concepts & movements that are critical to be a better skier and snowboarder. The authors did a great job compiling all the concepts in such a compact, handy book. Each concept is first ...