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    SMALL-SPACE COMPOSTING

    Apr 23, 2019 3 minutes

    We all know that composting is not just good gardening practice and good for the environment, it also makes economic sense as well. Why pay for bags of compost (and lug them around) when you can access home-made ‘black gold’ in your very own garden?

    But what if your garden is a courtyard, balcony or other similarly diminutive plot? Knocking together some pallets to make a compost bin just isn’t practical, and you quite rightly might not want to give over valuable growing space for composting. Well, there are

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