compost novice

shyntrue

DH & I are looking into starting to compost this spring....  Can you reco any books or websites to get us started?

Thanks!

CDMay2006

A combination of one's i know are good and ones that look good: 

http://www.howtocompost.org/
http://seattletilth.org/learn/resources-1/compost
http://www.urbantilth.org/page_id22/our-shop/1-cubic-yard-of-compost1/
http://tilth.org/events/making-and-using-compost 

SuperGreen

I'm a big fan of Gardeners.com's "How-To" page, which has articles on pretty much everything.

http://www.gardeners.com/Gardening-How-To/Learning,default,pg.html

Here are the composting ones:

http://www.gardeners.com/Back-to-Basics-Composting/5007,default,pg.html

http://www.gardeners.com/All-About-Composting/5061,default,pg.html

I wouldn't put too much thought into composting, we don't. Just don't put something that reaallly shouldn't be in there, like meat scraps.  They smell when they decompose, and attract animals.  Really, you're just making a place for organic material to rot.  You can't really mess up letting something rot.

We add kitchen scraps pretty much every day, and a big pile of browns every once and awhile when we rake or have brown paper.  We have awesome compost.  Try not to think about it too much, it's just rotting organic matter

shyntrue

Thanks!