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To: Ish who wrote (38790)	9/27/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

No problem Ish. I do a lot of composting, but can't keep up with the garden's decomposition. Humic acid apparently changes the nature of clays ~ my basic soil. The compost disappears out of the clay, even though it's turned in, and I'm back to clay.

To: Ish who wrote (38790)	9/27/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

A good home-sized compost technique is to get lengths of chicken wire, and tie them into cylinders about as far across as they are high (which of course is controlled by the width of the wire). You plop your crap... the stuff you want to compost, that is... into there, cover it with a little dirt if it might stink or draw flies. When it's full, put a good layer of dirt on top and start another one. By the time the third one is full, the first one (at my speed, at least) is ready for use. The advantage is that enough air gets in to avoid that ammonia smell that you get when it goes anaerobic. No need to stir or turn it. Doesn't work so well for big batches of lawn clippings, and stuff like that, but fine for ordinary kitchen and garden waste. When I was a kid I always kept a pile of rotting leaves somewhere, gave an eternal supply of worms for bait.