Right now I am composting heavily directly into the soil....even this morning already. I'll even do it in spring right up before planting time. I started doing that religiously about 5 years ago and my soil looks so rich in the Spring time.
Every vegetable or fruit scrap and coffee grounds/egg shells along with heavy doses of grass clipping, pine needles and leaves. I'll keep turning it quite often until the ground freezes. I don't shread the leaves.
Everything always seems to be gone by planting time.
It's made such a difference since I started doing this. I had some absolute tomato tree stalks this past Summer....largest and healthiest plants I ever grew.
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Brian
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