Re: Composting > temps

Guess everyone will get a visit from that Arctic front they are expection
here.  Pfffft on hard freezes.

On 11/26/06, Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
>
> The temps here have been mid-70s, but like you they will plummet on
> Thursday
> night to mid-20s.  I'm not putting up more than a door decoration
> regardless. :o)
> zem
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Composting > temps
>
>
> > We've been dry and 55 to 60+ here and will be through Wed.  Then a big
> > drop to high of 30.  I had no excuse to not put up Cmas
> decorations.  They
> > went up yesterday but I refuse to turn them on until sometime in
> December.
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Zone 5
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "pdickson" <pdickson@sbcglobal.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Composting
> >
> >
> >>I use lots of straw and mulch in my garden but I also put down a layer
> of
> >>newspapers first.  I don't ever till my garden any more. I just dig a
> hole
> >>and put in a plant.... way easy and the soil is wonderful.  Just be sure
> >>to keep it moist so that it can break down and keep it from blowing
> away.
> >> It has been a wonderful fall here... but on Wednesday of next week we
> are
> >> suppose to drop from the 70's to the 30's.  It looks like winter is
> >> almost here.
> >> Tricia
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 9:56 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Composting
> >>
> >>
> >>> The people I've known to use straw as a mulch on their vegetables have
> >>> simply laid it around them.  I'm certainly no expert in that area.
> >>> zem
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:50 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Composting
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Related issue - I have decided to mulch my vegetable garden with
> >>>> straw next spring?. Do I put the straw into the compost pile at
> >>>> season's end, or simply dig it into the garden soil?
> >>>>
> >>>> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>>>
> >>>> On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> How great to hear from you, Marge.  On the subject of comoposting,
> >>>>> I know I have mentioned our MG compost project in the past, but for
> >>>>> anybody who wasn't here then or has forgotten... We found an
> >>>>> excellent way to compost by creating our enclosure out hay bales
> >>>>> and simply incorporating them into the mix as they break down.  We
> >>>>> make all the compost for the UT WTREC (Univ. of TN West TN Research
> >>>>> & Education Center), formerly known as the UT Experiment Station.
> >>>>> zem
> >>>>> zone 7
> >>>>> West TN
> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@clubhouse-
> >>>>> designs.com>
> >>>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 6:35 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Composting
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT
> >>>>>> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> >>>>>>> So how many of you have real compost piles? Are you diligent about
> >>>>>>> turning them or is it just a place to dump organic matter?
> >>>>>> ----------
> >>>>>> I've been making compost for something like 36 years or so.  Have a
> >>>>>> main compost area that is 2 piles...one old I use and the other
> being
> >>>>>> added to plus several smaller piles around behind things to save
> >>>>>> hauling it back to the main one and a couple major mounds in the
> >>>>>> woods - gotta go mine those soon as I'm using my 'good' pile up
> fast
> >>>>>> with potting soil and will soon run out.  Everything gets either
> >>>>>> composted or eaten by the critters who also go through the kitchen
> >>>>>> waste just to make sure I haven't put anything really tasty on the
> >>>>>> heap.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I used to turn it but have not for many years.  Find it decomposes
> >>>>>> fine in a year so the old pile works for putting on beds or making
> >>>>>> potting soil.  Weeds sprout from it but mostly in the potting soil
> >>>>>> mix and they're easy to pull out of the pots - my beds are so full
> >>>>>> they don't get much chance to grow and I mulch as well.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Also have a couple three leaf piles - the resulting leaf mold is
> >>>>>> black gold.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> O'course, I also have regular rain.  You're right, Cyndi - water is
> >>>>>> the key to compost rotting.  I've had dry years and no time to
> water
> >>>>>> leaf piles and dug into them a year or so later to find wads of dry
> >>>>>> leaves same as went into them.  Think you might give that black
> >>>>>> plastic idea a try...good thought.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> >>>>>> who is waaaaay behind with email yet again....
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> mtalt@hort.net
> >>>>>> Shadyside Garden Designs
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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