COMPOSTING IS AS ANCIENT AS recorded language and - as countless civilisations throughout history have found -just as important. A thousand years before Moses received the Ten Commandments, gardeners in Mesopotamia were chiselling instructions about compost onto clay tablets: probably scribing the Mesopotamian equivalent of Thou shalt not compost Japanese knotweed'. Even early US Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Madison believed the success of their new nation depended on it. Madison went as faras to say, 'Nothing is more certain than that continual cropping without manure or vegetable manure deprives the soil of its fertility'. Must we compost? Yes we must.
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