How to Start a Compost Heap

A multitude of books and businesses have been founded on compost. Wastrels from Washington to Eureaucrats in Brussels happily pump confiscatory taxes into its encouragement. Yet it is an amazingly simple process. And of course like all such, things occasionally go wrong and make a pong. In days gone by, gardeners were said to be judged by the size of their compost heaps--the bigger the heap, the better the gardener. Alas no more. Drastic reductions in garden size, neighbours' objections and decline in garden know-how have all brought havoc on the traditional compost heap. And let's be honest: those compost heaps of yore were all too often nothing so much as massive mounds of organic waste.