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How to Make Your Own Compost
Healthy gardens start with healthy soil. A master composter shares his secrets to cooking power food for the soil.
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What else goes into the pile?
- The fourth layer is horse manure, whose extra nutrients give the pile a kick. (You can also use bagged chicken or steer manure.) Two or three times during the layering process, I throw on a shovelful of finished compost. I cover the pile with a 6-inch cap of straw to hold in nitrogen and shed rain.
- Next: How do you tend the pile?
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