Getting The Best Compost

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Getting The Best Compost


Do you know what really happens when things

rot?

Have other garden books confused you with

vague meanings for words like "stabilized

humus?" This book won't.

Are you afraid that compost making is anasty,

unpleasant, or difficult process? It isn't.

A compost pile is actually a fast-track method

of changing crude organic materials into

something resembling soil, called humus.

But the word humus is often misunderstood,

along with the wordscompost, and organic

matter.

And when fundamental ideas like these are not

really defined in a person's mind, the whole

subject they are a part of may be confused.

Compost making is a simple process.

Done properly it becomes a natural part of

your gardening or yard maintenance activities,

as much so as mowing the lawn.

And making compost does not have to take any

more effort than bagging up yard waste.

Handling well-made compost is always a

pleasant experience.

It is easy to disregard compost's vulgar

origins

because there is no similarity between the

good-smelling brown or black crumbly substance

dug out of a compost pile,

and the manure, garbage, leaves, grass

clippings and other waste products from which

it began.

Precisely defined, composting means enhancing

the consumption of crude organic matter by a

complex ecology of biological decomposition

organisms.

As raw organic materials are eaten and re-

eaten by many, many tiny organisms from

bacteria (the smallest) to earthworms (the

largest), their components are gradually

altered and recombined.

Gardeners often use the terms organic matter,

compost, and humus as interchangeable

identities. But there are important

differences in meaning that need to be

explained.


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