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  1. Handbook on mulches

    In its simplest terms, mulching is man's version of what happens on the floor of a forest where over the decades tree litter accumulates and gradually decays. The soft forest cushion that every lover of nature likes to walk upon is a natural mulch. It is in this accumulation of dead leaves,...
    631.451 BRO

  2. Mulch it!:a practical guide to using mulch in the garden and landscape

    Stu Campbell
    PD.010

  3. Slash/Mulch Systems: Sustainable Methods for Tropical Agriculture

    H. David Thurston Slash/mulch systems, ancient agricultural practices still widely used today, are often overlooked by farmers or mistaken for slash-and-burn systems; however, slash/mulch systems, in which vegetation is cut and mulched on site rather than being discarded or burned, are far more beneficial than are...
    631.581 THU

  4. No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method

    Ruth Stout, Richard Clemence Authors' articles published in Organic gardening and farming, 1953-1971. Can you really have a productive garden without plowing, hoeing, weeding, cultivating, and all the other bothersome rituals that most gardeners suffer through every growing season? "Sure," says Ruth Stout, a prolific author...
    635.04 STO

  5. Organic Guide to Compost and Mulch Gardening

    Organic gardening and Farming This publication discusses the creation of mulch and how to use it.
    635. ORG

  6. The Mulch Book: A Guide for the Family Food Gardener

    Stu Campbell Your garden is almost guaranteed to be more successful when you apply the wisdom found in this book. For it appraises the work of the mulching pioneers such as Ruth Stout, the Rodale staff and Leonard Wickenden, and combines it with the newest finds in the whole field. It steers beginning and...
    635.04 CAM | PD.036, PD.063

  7. Tapado slash/mulch: how farmers use it and what researchers know about it

    H. David Thurston et al This book unites campesinos, professors, investigators, administrators, and other persons interested in slash/mulch systems, to discuss the improvement of these systems and possible modifications that might be incorporated in the systems.
    631.451 THU

  8. Sustaining Growth: Soil Fertility Management in Tropical Smallholdings

    Karl M. Muller-Samann et al This volume is the revised English translation of the German title, "Bodenfruchtbarkeit und Standortgerechte Landwirtschaft". It presents a range of practices conducive to sustainable agricultures, and is of particular importance for the development of smallholdings in the tropics. These include...
    631.44 MUL

  9. Growing Vegetables in Fiji

    Kirk Dahlgren This out-of-print Peace Corps publication in Fiji was such a good concise guide to gardening in hot, humid climates that ECHO republished the book. It treats both vegetables that are well adapted to such climates and special techniques to grow some temperate vegetables that can be difficult but...
    635.099 DAH | PD.005

  10. Building Living Soil

    This publication includes information on soil fertility, earthworms, cover cropping, compost, mulching and intensive beds.
    631.4 HAR