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Re: compost

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At 10:53 PM 16-08-99 -0400,  a subscriber wrote:
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>Well, since it's so quiet --
>Compost.
>This is my first year gardening.  I did some reading on composting.  Layered 
>brown and green layers, dried leaves and horse manure 
Response:
Perhaps you're putting too much thought and technique into something that
is very simple.  I put virtually everything that will rot--exept big gobs
of fat--into my compost.
I have added fresh cow manure, truck loads of annual grasses I have mowed
off the
roadsides, almost all kitchen waste.  I keep it fairly moist and turn it
and dig into it
all the time.  If I add a lot of what is basically straw, I add some
nitrogen and mix it
with already composted material.  The whole thing is full of earthworms and
sow bugs.
Now, since you are going to use the completed compost as amendment to ordinary 
soil in a sqft garden, it doesn't matter if there are weed seeds and so
forth that survive 
the composting.  Pull them up when they appear.  If you don't have time for
that, maybe
your garden is too large.


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