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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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After I turn the pile three times in four to six months (adding water if it starts to dry out), it has an earthy smell and lots of worms and roly-polies. You can't recognize anything that went into it.
Adapted from text by Jim McCausland, Sunset
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