Re: OT: Compost cola
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
Bill Shear wrote:
>
> I would repeat that "supplements" are uneccessary in making compost unless
> you suspect there may be too little nitrogen. The cheap, easy and
> effective solution is a handful or two of lawn fertilizer. Even so this is
> for the impatient--anything will break down enough for use in a year even
> if you just heap it up and leave it. Screen for larger fragments which are
> returned to the pile for further processing.
At the risk of inadvertantly adding to the undocumented lore of compost piles,
I was under the impression that it needs moisture to really get cooking.
John | "There be dragons here"
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| to indicate the edge of the known world.
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