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compost compost comPOST COMPOST COMPOST I don't have any good pictures and right now everything has snow on top of it but I have a pretty chonky compost setup going. I moved into the country this fall and I started a big compost for no-dig gardening. The basis of my compost is yard/kitchen waste, wood chips/sawdust, and coffee grounds from a local cafe. My neighbours give me their leaves and rotten apples and stuff in addition to what I have from my own yard, and I've done some additional scavenging of horse bedding and grass clippings (by the small truckload). My approach is to create temporary boxes out of pallets and blocks - I lay pallets on their sides, wedge boards/blocks/bricks against them to keep them upright, and fill them up. This gives air flow and lets me open things up for turning when appropriate. The coffee grounds cause the mix to heat up pretty quickly, which I like because it kills weed seeds. Right now I have four of these on the go.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 16:50 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:03 |
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Earth posted:Apparently they can chase away bugs you want to hang around to eat the scraps and poop. Keep in mind this is what I do because I live with a small yard in a higher density living environment. Not a day goes by even in the dead of winter that someone isn't walking by my house. I don't want animals getting into my compost and making a mess, I don't want to make it too stinky and annoy the neighbors. You get the idea. Oh right that reminds me - I have a heap of beef bones that I dried out in the bbq and smashed up a bit with a sledgehammer sitting around in a pail somewhere. I should bury those in the compost next time I turn it over.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 20:54 |
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Everything has thawed enough that I was able to go break apart, stir, and aerate my compost heaps for the first time since freezeover. I'm hoping that the hundreds of pounds of spent coffee grounds kickstart some hot composting and keep everything moving from here on out.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 21:51 |
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I turbocharged my compost heaps by adding miniature donkey poops to them. I don't have any kind of fancy setup - just pallet walls holding heaps together which I occasionally turn.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 14:57 |
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:Does anyone have any experience using chicken droppings/bedding as the basis for their compost? Yes. It's really good. I just throw it on the pile with the rest. Shitloads of nitrogen. What are you wondering?
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2023 03:06 |
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:I guess I was kind of wondering... everything. I only started composting when I also built a chicken coop. The compost was basically entirely made up of the used chicken bedding/manure. So my compost is a mix of large amounts of coffee grounds, household food scraps, yard waste, and chicken bedding. I occasionally get other animal bedding too, such as donkey. I find that to really get it fired up that water is usually the missing factor. Sometimes the straw is too intact as-is, and too dry, and it needs a bit of something finer and damper mixed in around it really to get going. Get some moisture down in the middle of it and compress it some maybe? E. Just looked at your link. I also am working with a heap that's probably 10x as big as those bins. It could just be volume that's the problem. I don't have much experience with smaller composter bins: big piles are where the magic happens ime. CommonShore fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Aug 15, 2023 |
# ¿ Aug 15, 2023 23:24 |
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red19fire posted:Hello, I have a 30 gallon vermicompost air pot in my living room. it’s super easy, they shred through all my vegetable scraps. I alternate mushroom and lobster compost mixed with shredded brown cardboard for bedding. I also feed neem seed meal, kelp, rock dust, and ground eggshells as supplements for feeding my potted plants. What temperature range can they survive
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 04:26 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:03 |
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red19fire posted:~50F-90F, for red wrigglers. You can keep them in a garage in the winter (they just slow down and go dormant so don’t overfeed) and outside in the shade in summer. If I had a red wiggler setup would they go dormant and survive a Proper Hard Winter outside if I say... covered it with a foot of straw and a tarp?
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 14:12 |