http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net New to gardening - my experiences with Square Foot Gardening Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:49:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net/2007/06/09/how-to-start-composting/ http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net/2007/06/09/how-to-start-composting/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:51:27 +0000 Andy http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net/2007/06/09/how-to-start-composting/ One of the three main ingredients in Mel’s mix is compost. As I didn’t have any, I purchased some from the local garden centre but it would have been nicer to make my own. However, everything I’ve read seems to suggest that you have a 1 cubic metre compost heap at a minimum. My question is how do you start a compost heap? A lot of the documentation online seems to imagine that you already have the ingredients to fill the compost heap half way up – but where do you get this stuff from (or store it?). At the moment I have access to the lawn clippings from the grass and the few food scraps that we have left over and later in the year I will have LOADS of leaves. However, currently the volume of waste doesn’t seem to be sufficient to create a compost heap – so any ideas?

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