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Re: Compost!

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I would love to read some discussions about composting.  That is my next
hurdle in gardening.  I am forever spending money on Amend.  I hate the
thought of throwing all of that potential soil away.

Cyn, If you don't mind, would you review the fast cook method.
I am very interested.  Where do you keep your compost pile?
How big is it?  What "container" do you keep it in?  How do you start from
scratch.  Hmmm I know, I should read the book, I remember seeing a section
on composting.

Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: CynMob@aol.com <CynMob@aol.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 7:02 PM
Subject: 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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