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<blockquote data-quote="Guleesh" data-source="post: 7604103" data-attributes="member: 147187"><p>You are right, but I want to add, it's not really that hard to make a good compost, and should be remembered that the compost is applied to feed the soil, not the crop. The soil biology <em>will</em> utilise crap compost, that's what it does. Nature doesn't have compost heaps, it all happens in the soil.</p><p></p><p>Making good compost can be a science and an artform, but it's not realistic to think that every bucket of compost produced can have this attention lavished on it, it's not complicated to make compost <em>good enough</em> to keep soil healthy and to replace what is lost from it by the harvesting of fruit and vegetables.</p><p></p><p>You rightly point out that the starter materials, and how they are managed are critical to making high quality compost, but are the leftovers after harvesting and removing from site a crop of vegetables really enough? I doubt it. </p><p></p><p>The system can't be self sustaining, unless the yields from an area were much, much lower, to allow far more of what is grown to return to the soil via the compost -which amounts to the same as using more ground than the minimum necessary growing area, in order to support that area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guleesh, post: 7604103, member: 147187"] You are right, but I want to add, it's not really that hard to make a good compost, and should be remembered that the compost is applied to feed the soil, not the crop. The soil biology [I]will[/I] utilise crap compost, that's what it does. Nature doesn't have compost heaps, it all happens in the soil. Making good compost can be a science and an artform, but it's not realistic to think that every bucket of compost produced can have this attention lavished on it, it's not complicated to make compost [I]good enough[/I] to keep soil healthy and to replace what is lost from it by the harvesting of fruit and vegetables. You rightly point out that the starter materials, and how they are managed are critical to making high quality compost, but are the leftovers after harvesting and removing from site a crop of vegetables really enough? I doubt it. The system can't be self sustaining, unless the yields from an area were much, much lower, to allow far more of what is grown to return to the soil via the compost -which amounts to the same as using more ground than the minimum necessary growing area, in order to support that area. [/QUOTE]
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