[RKDinOKC]

At least you don't have to get your compost where I did growing up. Had to shovel the poop out of horse and sheep barns then spread THAT all over the garden shoveling it out of the back of a pickup. At least Dad had a guy with a regular tractor plow and disc the garden to turn it over and mix it in. Would have been even less fun trying to turn it all over with a rototiller. Nobody has ever said anything so think the smell does wash off.

We did have the garden sectioned in sevenths rotating crops. Every year a different section was left unplanted. That's where we put clippings, kitchen compost waste, leaves, dead crops stalks, etc. and I had to keep it tilled in with the rototiller.

For several years we also plowed in cotton seed hulls. Don't know where we got those. A guy showed up with a pickup full at a time.