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RE: compost/bloodmeal

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Not to step on Frank's story, but this reminds me of my old "Cubic Foot
Composting Method". As I finished harvesting a square I would dig it out
completely, saving the soil in a bucket. Then over the next few days I would
blend up all food scraps and waste in a blender I had set aside for this
purpose. And each day I would put down a thin layer of leaves (about an
inch), a thin layer of Grass clippings, then pour on the slurried kitchen
waste. Then I took enough of the saved aside soil to cover it completely. By
the end of the week or so I had more than filled the hole, and when I went
back to it in a few weeks (or next season) to till it, everything was
decomposed and fully mixed with earthworms.
	Very handy and took about 5 min a day with no heavy turning.

	And, almost everything would blend up just fine, including egg shells,
spaghetti squash hulls and other really hard stuff. Now admittedly, that
blender started making a loud noise and a scary smell before I retired it,
but for $29.95 it lasted about three years of regular duty and three of
compost duty.
	I'm waiting now for the kitchen Garbage Disposer to start getting loud so
that I can replace it with a new one and attach the old one to a workbench
basin leading to a bucket. I figure weeds and stems can go in that for a
couple years maybe.

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>
>  Also please
> tell me more about your blender method.  Weren't there things
> (broccoli stems
> and canteloupe rinds come to mind) that just wouldn't blend?
>


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