On 11 Jun, 12:34, steve auvache wrote:
I think you are far too nice.
The statement, from the web site, "successful compost making is both a
science and an art," is not true, it is a lie.
Successful compost making is nothing more than the application of a few
simple practical rules to encourage nature do it's job a bit quicker and
as you rightly say you don't have to pay anyone to find out how it is
done.

Indeedee. Though it took me time to realise that there is a lot of
people out there who have no idea - giving you an example, during a
workshop I attended in London chelsea school of design, this
Portuguese girl stopped the tutor to ask her about 'compost? who is
compost?' .... I immediately thought of giving her names in french and
do a quick explanation of what compost is. Well you would not have
beleived it - in a workshop about garden design this girl had never
heard about compost making. She is young, but still.

I wouldn't trust that "commitment" as far as I could throw it. Simple
practical skills and knowledge dressed up in a pseudoscientific manner
and punted out at high prices on the Internet by Anonymous suggest
someone out there doesn't really give a toss, other than to their own
commitment of making money out of the unsuspecting.

Oh sure, I've been tempted myself ;o) Only the other day someone here
couldn't find in any 'pea sticks' in all the garden centres she'd
visited. Now, perhaps they used to be sold for urban gardeners?!
Maybe. But what crossed my mind was the good money that can be made,
you know what I mean?