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Re: Compost!

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I'm a composting fool these days.  Even got most of the family now trained to 
dump appropriate food scraps into the bucket instead of throwing away.   I 
posted a while back, whining about my heap not taking off very well.  Per 
suggestions to add nitrogen, I dumped some general purpose fertilizer 
15-15-15  I think it is on the piles and worked it in and watered.  
VOILA!  Two weeks later, I've got that dark loamy stuff that looks so good 
you'd want to sample it (except that you know what's really in it!)  Even 
that tough brushy stuff that was dead hill cover is now soil.
I know there's a lot of discussion about the other advantages of a slow 
cooker, e.g. microorganisms and nutrients -- any discussion on that from you 
more experienced people would be appreciated.  
I went for the fast cook because I'm on decomposed granite here and seriously 
need organics and soil.  I'm doing raised beds out of raw cut redwood and 
starting from scratch on the soil.
Cyn


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