19 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 13

That Compost Heap • Mr. Maurice Card, of Leicester, puts

me right on compost-making; but, without a structure in which to manage the process, I find it not so easy unless one uses an agent of some sort. Naturally rotted green stuff is best, and a few bits of old sacking help to confine things, but the scientific management of composting takes more time than one can afford at the busiest part of the year. Neither seeds nor insects will survive in the heat generated in decomposing vegetable matter, but in the average garden compost-heap the fringes most certainly do breed insects, and the seeds of weeds have a good chance of escaping