On 5/26/2014 3:47 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2014 21:03:18 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 5/26/2014 8:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> When I use coffee grounds etc in my compost, the go into a bin with all
>>>> the rest of the grass, weeds, veg leaves, peelings etc and they stay
>>>> there for a couple of years until they all break down. I don't put them
>>>> into the soil around the plants as they are!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Decomposition is a pretty amazing process. You throw stuff into a compost
>>> pile and it turns to soil. That's a hard concept to get a grasp of.
>>
>> ) It works
>
> Takes about a hundred years to produce one inch of top soil on a
> forest floor.
>

You're off by a factor of at least ten. Soil accumulates a lot faster
than most people realize.