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Home Composting Made Easy

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Late last fall, I bought a composting bin from my county, determined to stop wasting all those perfectly good, brown leaves laying all over my backyard. Along with the bin, I received a colorful, short (30-page) book, called "Home Composting Made Easy." Unfortunately, I didn't read the book right away, and the next thing you know, the winter had set in. For several months, as the temperature dropped into the teens or even single digits, I gave the compost bin -- or the book -- little thought...

Early the next spring, I looked inside my compost bin and, big surprise, not a lot of composting had gone on during those frigid December, January, and February months. It was right then that I realized, "hey, I have no idea what the heck I'm doing here!"

Luckily, I still had that colorful, little book on composting, and pretty soon I had the answers to all my questions: the pile needed water (duh!) and turning (double duh!) in order to aerate it. And really, that's all it took, regular turning and moistening, and now I've got a bin full of rich compost, "black gold" as the book calls it. Boy, is my garden going to be happy when I spread it around! Anyway, the moral of this story is that composting is rewarding, environmentally beneficial, and not difficult at all - assuming, of course, that you've got "Home Composting Made Easy" and that you actually read it!

This is a pamphlet, not a paperback. Filled with pictures, not of compost, think more along the lines of 1995 Microsoft clip art of backyard items. The information in the pamphlet is the most basic, minimal (and extreamly redundant) information that can be easily found by a google search of compost. Keep your money, you'll find more and better information for free by on-line search.