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How to Make a Good Compost Heap
Select a corner of the plot that's as remote as possible from your and your neighbor's view, as a compost pile is not a decorative spot. Now simply start piling on, day by day, leaves from your property, waste grass after mowing, vegetable (not meat) garbage, and waste vegetable matter such as foliage. Its desirable to keep the pile fairly flat on top, as the materials accumulate. This way, rain--which is an important element in helping decay--soaks into the pile more uniformly instead of running off. Every time you've added about six inches to your compostheap, it's desirable to water down with a good liquid plant food, to help bacterial decomposition. This isn't essential, but it's helpful in having a better compost for your garden. Come spring, about six months later, you should have a well-rotted compost heap. Apply it to the soil, several inches deep, then turn under through the soil, mixing it thoroughly through the earth. Use it also as mulch, a use described elsewhere in this book.
Miracle Gardening, Samm Sinclair Baker, 1958
Select a corner of the plot that's as remote as possible from your and your neighbor's view, as a compost pile is not a decorative spot. Now simply start piling on, day by day, leaves from your property, waste grass after mowing, vegetable (not meat) garbage, and waste vegetable matter such as foliage. Its desirable to keep the pile fairly flat on top, as the materials accumulate. This way, rain--which is an important element in helping decay--soaks into the pile more uniformly instead of running off. Every time you've added about six inches to your compostheap, it's desirable to water down with a good liquid plant food, to help bacterial decomposition. This isn't essential, but it's helpful in having a better compost for your garden. Come spring, about six months later, you should have a well-rotted compost heap. Apply it to the soil, several inches deep, then turn under through the soil, mixing it thoroughly through the earth. Use it also as mulch, a use described elsewhere in this book.
Miracle Gardening, Samm Sinclair Baker, 1958
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