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Re: Compost

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----- Original Message -----
From: Katherine Wendt <katherine@datawizsolutions.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 5:06 AM
Subject: Compost


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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> I was reading old messages about compost and the number of piles you keep
> going. Are any of you smack in the middle of suburbia? I've got a third of
> an acre (including the house) and all the back yards are just a sea of
> lawn, separated by the occasional chain-link fence. No hiding places for
> unsitely piles. Even building the raised beds caused a lot of comment.
>
> So I haven't started composting yet but have been collecting some
> materials. But in this pristine environment I was thinking about buying
one
> of those $80 black plastic bins. Is this just a waste of money? Is it
silly
> to do it at all if I can't do three piles? (And 3 x $80 is far too much
> money.)
>
   First tell the stuffed shirts where to go.  Grass isn't the ONLY thing to
grow.  Next you could probably do very nicely with a simple barrel tumbler.
Find a plastic barrel with lid and fill it 3/4 with grass/leaves/kitchen veg
scraps.  Roll it from one side of the yard to the other each day and remove
the lid so it gets air till the next day.  It may only take weeks to be
useable.  There are also simple tumblers made from barrels mounted between
sawhorse legs which you rotate frequently. They are no larger than 30gal
garbage can.  Look in Home and garden center stores for either.  Soda plant
bottlers use many for there syrups and may be glad to have you take one
away.


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