"Compost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what's past; avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.... Assume a virtue if ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... Dressing, Pruning, and Governing the Plantation; of the Ordering and Cultivating the Vine-yard after the first four years, till it needs renewing; as also of the manner and time, how and when to manure the Vine-yard, with Compost, will be better understood from the Book it self, than can be here described; the Author pretending, that, those few observations of his, as the native production of his own Experience, being practised with care, the Vine-yards in England ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... neighbor with a large tractor and subsoil plow, I'd hire him to fracture my land 3 or 4 feet deep. Painstakingly double or even triple digging will also loosen this layer. Another possible strategy for a smaller garden would be to rent a gasoline-powered posthole auger, spread manure or compost an inch or two thick, and then bore numerous, almost adjoining holes 4 feet deep all over ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon |
