Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1106/en

In this sense, compost-making is a field of work for conscious practice that demands and schools the whole human being. One takes up fork and spade and builds the heap in layers on a width of roughly 1.2 m — placing material that breaks down easily and material that breaks down slowly beside and on top of each other in portions, inserting between them, as occasion warrants, layers of farmyard manure as well as thin strata of loam soil, with a little starter compost along the edges, and dusting each individual layer with the additions mentioned above in accordance with one's reading of its particular need. In the case of bulky and dry material the old rule holds: "Tread it firm and keep it moist." In setting up the heap one follows no scheme; every step of the work is preceded by a consideration.