If you’ve been thinking about recycling all of that yard waste into compost, now’s the time to get busy.

You’ll have plenty of prime ingredients coming up shortly in the form of falling leaves, year-end grass clips, and cut/yanked plants once frost ends the growing season.

Besides, why pay to get rid of yard waste, kitchen scraps, shredded paper, and other household organic waste when you could turn it into superb (and free) soil?

That’s the idea of composting — improving your lousy soil while recycling and saving money at the same time.

This isn’t as hard or as messy as you might think. Nature does it all the time without bins or instruction manuals.

Here’s a game plan:

Compost happens

You’ll need no special skills or secrets. Given enough time, all vegetation will break down into

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