Today’s Article: Composting
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This morning’s article is on composting.
No matter what type of gardening you engage in, and no matter how large or small your garden, every gardener should make a resolution to compost in the New Year.
Compost is partially decomposed organic matter, commonly made up of plants or plant-based foods, and sometimes the manures of plant-eating animals. Because compost is made mainly from plants, it usually contains the growth elements that plants need in roughly the proportion that they’re needed . . .
December 29, 2012 - 7:25 AM
Good read. Keepem coming.
Got a buddy in western NC. that has the compost pile to end piles. Said it was maybe 40′ long, 6′wide and in a ditch maybe 4′ deep. He added red wrigglers when he started and they are thick now. He adds to it every year. Would night crawlers work as well?
wd – aren’t night crawlers just earthworms, or am I displaying some ignorance? If so, that would work!
One of the most interesting compost piles I’ve viewed was actually a pit, not a pile. They just dug a pit and threw everything in there and let it sit. After 2-3 years, it was usable and dug up.
Yes, big earhworms.