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March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 13, 12 at 21:43

I noticed some compost newbies asking questions about what can be composted. I know sometimes these threads may get old, but I think they are good for newbies, so I am starting another one. Looking back, it appears that November was the last today thread...

so today I fed my compost:

One week old pea soup
Leftover pasta
A dead mouse
shredded junk mail
a cotton rag soaked in dog urine


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Jasmine vines I spent 3 weekends cutting down from an arbor over my back gate (I'm growing hardy Kiwi now). Mostly deadwood, had to mix in a lot of alfalfa pellets to get a hot pile.


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About a gallon of urine, assorted weeds that have been loving the early spring, and this weeks shredded junk mail.


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Yesterday - A sieve full of chicken bones from making stock. Peels from bananas and oranges. Apple core. Cabbage leaves. Swede(rutabaga), onion and carrot peels. Hair from cleaning hairbrushes. Used paper handkerchiefs. Completed crossword from the newspaper. Till receipt. Coffee grounds. Tea bags. Bones from pork chops. Faded Amaryllis blossom. Phone bill.

p.s. My compost is almost never hot - but it all rots down eventually.

Quote from Bob Flowerdew. 'If it ever lived it will compost'.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Grapefruit peels
Banana peels
Wrinkly lemons found in the back of the fridge
Lettuce scraps
Papertowels
Old, flat Sprite
Some rice (cooked) that got left out overnight
Dead plants from last year that never got pulled out of the flower bed
Various shredded newspaper/cardboard

Granted, none of this actually went to the compost pile (which is still behind a snow drift), just into the kitty-littery buckets that will all be added once everything's melted :)


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  • Posted by pt03 2b Southern Manitob (My Page) on
    Wed, Mar 14, 12 at 12:18

Usual kitchen stuff and office lunchroom whatnot. The newsy thing is that I dumped it all in the medium tumbler and got to tumble it. The tumbler contents was not frozen! We've had waaayyy above normal temperatures this week and almost all the snow is gone! Forecasting 20C for the weekend which is almost 20 degrees above normal for this time of year.

Has spring sprung?

Lloyd


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About 600 lbs of shredded sunchoke stalks yesterday. Today I'm giving my back a rest.


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Yup Lloyd, the mild winter did not freeze my compost solid this year. Probably the first winter that my pile wasn't a solid block of ice. I cracked open the side and dug some finished stuff out of the bottom, mixed it up a bit and it was warm in the middle... usually the center is still frozen at this time of year.

I have some hypatica's blooming and lots of trees budding out.

I cleaned up some of the flower beds and tossed the trimmings on top the pile.


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  • Posted by mytime 3/4 Alaska (My Page) on
    Thu, Mar 15, 12 at 12:31

Like Angeline, I can't get to the compost pile, but putting the potato peelings, banana peel, coffee grounds, dried up dahlia tubers and paper towels into a plastic bag of shredded paper keeps it in the garage for a while for me.
Reading everyone else's lists makes me realize that I don't have much organic trash on a day-to-day basis.


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About 1/2 ton of horse manure, mixed with evergreen wood shavings.


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An 18 gallon tote full of veg waste the women at the store saved for me. It changes from day to day. One day It was almost all oranges. The next might be heavy on onions, watermelon rinds, cukes, peelings, often outer cabbage leaves. Will be adding some sawdust in the next day or so.


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  • Posted by pt03 2b Southern Manitob (My Page) on
    Sun, Mar 18, 12 at 10:57

Added a bag of shredded leaves from last fall to the medium tumbler. It had settled to about 1/2 full so I topped it back up. The compost temperature was up to 105F first thing this morning which is incredible considering this is only mid-March. I've never had heat in a tumbler in March. What a goofy year.

Lloyd


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Another tote of vegetables, mostly cabbage and strawberries. A contractor bag full of sawdust. A few shovelfuls of dirt and a bale of spoiled hay.


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Chunks of ice.

Yep. Today I chopped up 3 buckets worth of ice from my north-side deck... and carefully wedged those plates of ice into my hot pile. Then I insulated the whole thing with a fat layer of straw.

Was worried about the pile drying out, with the cold front that just showed up, with ungodly winds; the objective here is just to keep things hot until it can be flipped again whenever warm weather returns. So I added... a bunch of ice. lol.

Yup, I really did that.

Think it will work? Internal temperature is up 10 degrees since it started snowing a couple hours ago... but the weather might stay cold until the end of next week, so its iffy.

(Erm...I'm kind of a lurker here, but got hooked on composting 3 years ago BECAUSE of this soil fourm, and I'm greatful to you all for that. Sadly, my arms are often way too sore for typing by the end of the day, plus I broke my computer...(Thank goodness for smartphones) But I still visit, and still composting! Really, this is the best (and most fun) forum on all of Gardenweb, just thought you should know. :)

Leslie in CO @ 8,500 ft

Here is a link that might be useful: Hot pile, 6 days old...and its COLD outside!


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  • Posted by batya Israel north 8-9-10 (My Page) on
    Mon, Mar 19, 12 at 13:01

Yay! I was thinking of starting this myself.......

Let's see........ seeds and unused stuff from making kumquat marmalade, a bunch of stinging nettle (the absolute best stuff for compost) given gratefully from My MIL, regular kitchen stuff, UCGs, the rest of the dead winter plants.
I cut off the green tops of some store bought beets which had leaves. Stuck them in the ground, and they are sprouting new leaves. Fabulous. Most of my browns come from shredded office paper and carob leaves. The long term mulch pile under the tree got lots of euc leaves, thick, tough, loquat leaves, sticks and old plants, grasses. The new lasagna space for summer melons got newspaper, almost finished compost, and cut grass on top. The new full pile went into the second hole in the ground to do its thing, and the now-empty first hole is getting filled again.

We rarely frost here, but we have had more rain this winter than in the past decade, so with spring sun starting, weeds are going to town. I'll be planting seeds this weekend.
Peace


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I have added ice to my pile. But it was warmer out... I dumped dirty ice from the fish cooler onto the compost pile.

Fish slimey ice! My pile loved it. :-)


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16 bags of shredded Christmas tree boughs, pulled from my tulip and daffodil beds, where the first green shoots are poking through.


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  • Posted by batya Israel north 8-9-10 (My Page) on
    Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 11:51

And all the fuzz from de-fuzzing my 100% wool felted baskets.


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Chicken poop
Parakeet poop
My brother cleaned out his fridge: brussel sprouts, asparagus, celery, bread.
Scraps from the Indian restaurant on the corner: LOTS of onion peels, cucumbers, rice, chick peas, carrot peels, bread dough.
Coffee grounds
Hay, aspen bedding, newspaper
The slurry from the baby chicks' water: water, poop, soaked aspen shavings.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

some rotting jerusalem artichokes and chicken manure


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2 feather pillows, some shredded leaves,and kitchen scraps.


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banana peel
orange peels
cocoa puffs
potato chips
tortilla chips
drinkable yogurt
gogurt
lettuce
raisin bagels
bread
shredded paper, junk mail and TP rolls
2 wheelbarrows of grass clippings

I turned the whole pile (down to dirt in the bin) and mixed everything as evenly as I could. I'm amazed that there's dry parts in the pile after all the rain we've had. It rained really hard last night and all morning. I added enough wet grass that I didn't bother watering it. It's also raining again.


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Just added some rice too ... my wife keeps fighting me on this and throws stuff out ... I wonder how long it would take to compost a wife???

I'm JOKING

or am I


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good for a laugh

Here is a link that might be useful: Somewhat on topic...


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I am brand new to composting so I was surprised about some of the materials you all are putting into the bin. I thought no meat products (those pork chop bones) and nothing cooked (the rice) was supposed to go in, just raw stuff. I sure do have a lot to learn!


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avocado peel and pit
onion peel and some onion
hair


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Rice is great for the pile. Who invented the nothing cooked rule? I microwave stuff to cook it first. It goes faster if you precook everything. I would not add cooked foods like a casserole with a lot of sodium however, or chips that have salt.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

coffee grounds, a filter, paper plate and shredded junk mail .... mmmmmm, junk mail


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I found a guy on Craigslist that e-mails me every week or so to tell me that he saved up a full load of pulp from his juicer, along with the associated carrot peels, beet tops, banana peels and lemon rinds. I just have to go pick it up. It is great - 10-15 pounds of stuff. I usually put it in my pile, but most recently I put the bulk of it in my worm bin and I'm sure the worms are psyched right now.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Boiled shrimp shells and the water I boiled them in, and a few cans of flat soda.


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15 full paper bags of maple leaves collected in the fall. Sprinkled water over the top of the pile to start some process. I will sprinkle some garden soil over it and push in some green weed when they show up soon.
What else can I do to expedite composting or leaf mold process?


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Belshazzar's Feast is an oratorio by the English composer William Walton.[1] http://www.obbon.net It was first performed at the Leeds Festival on 8 October 1931. The work has remained one of Walton's most celebrated compositions[2] and one of the most popular works in the English choral repertoire. Osbert Sitwell selected the text from the Bible, primarily the Book of Daniel, and Psalm 137 (By the waters of Babylon). The work is dedicated to Walton's friend and benefactor, Gerald Berners.[3]

Here is a link that might be useful: Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)


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Strawberry tops
Old head of lettuce
Hulled sunflower seeds (we will see how hulled they really are)
egg carton
Cauliflower
cat fur
banana peals
tomato


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Good Grief! And I thought I was a Kook-----all I put in mine was all the blasted garlic mustard I try to pull before it goes to seed-----but I hang it on an old stretch of wire fence until it dries in the wind and sun or the stupid stuff just takes root and grows----------------------Weedy


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Fallen leaves that never decomposed over our very, very mild winter. Old mum plants that I cut off as the new stems and foliage were growing out, banana peels, and egg shells.


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Our workplace participated in the Canadian Cancer Society's annual daffodil sale fundraiser, so I'm sitting at work drooling over all the daffodils at everyone's desk, wondering how soon they will start to dry out so I can steal them all for my pile :)

Yep, I think I've turned into a full-blown whacko.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Egg shells, coffee grounds, leaves from brugmansia and sweet potatoes overwintered indoors, onion skins, hair, potato skins, carrot skins, torn bits of newspaper that I put in the bottom of the kitchen bucket to absorb excess moisture. Have not taken out the stuff for several days.


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We turned our compost by hand with pitchfork the other day and used up all the nearly finished compost, about two wheel barrels full, to add to the top of a raised garden bed
that we have been building up. Then I transplanted a couple dozen strawberry plants into this new bed. This made me so happy, I finally found a nice sunny elevated spot for the strawberries, and I have found from previous experience they they thrive with the compost!
The stuff in the compost was mostly stuff from kitchen waste such as eggshells, coffee grinds, vegetable scraps, shrimp peels, fish skin if we have some etc... and of course thus was added to stuff from the yard like leaves, pine needles, weeds, straw, chicken manure, tree bark, etc...


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

long, thick stems from the bolted arugula (after I cut off the leaves, flowers, and seed pods for delicious salad)

weeds, egg shells, tea bags, leftover oatmeal, dead stink bugs

large soggy bag of kitchen scraps my mom had saved for me in her freezer for several weeks

hair/fur (mine and the dog's -- time for spring hair cuts)

muddy water from washing last year's potatoes, plus the sprouts I had to break off of them because they feel spring coming on.

butternut squash peelings and seeds -- they're still storing great!

most of a box of store bought strawberries that shriveled strangely as if they were not even food (why do we even bother with grocery stores?)

unpopped pop corn kernels from the bottom of the bowl


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potato chips
orange
apples
tomato sauce
some sort of fruit bran bars
a packet of hot chocolate
some other stuff ... my wife cleans the fridge and cupboards every friday so the pile eats well.


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Jurassic-era cereal
Stale chocolate chips
Banana peels
Half of an out of control weigela (chipped first)
Daffodil stalks
Strained pot solids from a batch of soup stock
Leftover fried rice
Either a rabbit or a very moldy zucchini-- Hard to tell.


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Ya'll crack me up! :)

My poor compostwin...all it got were the outer parts of a pineapple and cantaloupe...poor thing!


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two wheelbarrows full of grass
a shredded pizza box
banana peel
a little onion


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coffee grinds and filters, old cereal, potato, onion and carrot peelings,


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strawberry tops, coffee grounds


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Good grief, I sure learned a lot tonight, thanks, all, I can't believe the stuff you all use, and what do you do without the room? Do you want it to heat up or do you need to keep it cool, i don't believe I could turn it over. My dad had a large pit he put the trash into, I am sitting here shaking my head, urine, newspaper, dead rats, feathers, I had no idea. Thanks


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I can't believe the stuff y'all are putting in your compost pile. I'm another one that has only put paper, veggie scrapes, grass, coffee grounds, tea bags. I will definitely start adding fur from all my animals. I have a dog who expels about a pound a day with his double coat and this woarm climate. Thanks for the education.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

leftover cabbage
lots of leaf mold
allergy season used tissues
coffee grounds and filters
garden scraps from winter garden
newspaper

Do I dare put chickweed plants in my long-term slow cooking compost pile?!?


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  • Posted by batya Israel north 8-9-10 (My Page) on
    Thu, Apr 5, 12 at 10:48

Cooking marathon for Passover Seder.........insides of a lot of red peppers, all of the peelings, etc. from 2 kinds of soup, leaves from all of the roots, onion skins, trimmings from the veggie patties, strained soup veggies, UCG's as we need coffee breaks.
Of course, cleaned out the fridge yesterday, too: beets gone bad, half a butternut squash, very old something...... stale tea, old dried fruit, nameless things in jars from way back in the cabinets, etc.
The week before this holiday should be named "Feed Your Compost Week".


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Vacuum contents
Hair from comb/brushes
Dryer lent
veggie scraps
unfinished cans of beer, soda, and juice
coffee / coffee grinds with liner


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I started composting a couple years ago, and I finally got one done successfully. So exciting! Pure black gold! I still have some questions, though. Is office paper OK to compost? I was wondering about the bleach they must use to make it white.

The other thing I'm wondering is how much do all of you shred your ingredients? For instance do you put a whole banana peel in, or do you cut it up? What about used paper towels and tissues? Do you shred weeds and stalks, etc? I shred or cut up everything, but it's very time-consuming. I have a leaf shredder, so that is fairly easy, but everything else I do by hand. Makes composting quite a task. Just wondering how you all do it.


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I think plain paper is ok, but I think junk mail is not with those glossy photos or magazines. I read that glossy photo are toxic. But, I don't compost plain paper, I don't have a paper shredder. But, I give that my ok. I compost plain white paper towels for many years, no bad effect has been seen from the bleach, but I think natural brown ones would be better, but I can't find those in the stores. I like to use Bounty. I wish it came in unbleached brown.


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you can compost glossy paper. Just don't use a lot of it and shred it.

Today I added:
bagels
piece of pizza
lettuce
sweat generated while turning the pile
cigar ashes from the cigar I smoked while turning the pile


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Mr. Compost Pile

I keep a 5 gallon bucket outside my backdoor, it hadn't been emptied in about 2 weeks. The bottom half was moldy, sticky and nasty smelling. Bucket was so full I couldn't put any more into it. It had apple cores, bannana peals, water melon rinds, other assorted veggie scraps, shredded paper, egg shells, cat hair, my hair and whatever was in the vacuum cleaner.
I turned my pile and mixed it all in... when I sprayed out the bucket I poured the water on top of the compost. Mr. Compost Pile eats it all up.


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btw - I don't chop up my veggie waste (bannana peels, watermelon rinds, etc) only thing chopped or shredded is the paper (and that is long thin strands).
I have noticed that the egg shells don't compost very well and have read that it is recommended to grind those up, but I haven't started doing that yet.


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egg shells, grass clippings, banana peels, lettuce leaves, apple cores, cucumber peelings, used paper towels, coffee ground. I'm afraid I just have boring things, nothing exciting here. Tomorrow I'm going to brodcast the alfalfa pellets everywhere. Oh, I have my first tomato's of the season on my sweet 100 plant. Very exciting.


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I finally started my second pile. Used straw as my brown and grass clippings for my green. Also added strawberries, egg shells, coffee grounds and tea leaves.

The place I get my coffee every day offered to save coffee grounds and the tea leaves (the brew big batches of iced tea) in a 5-gallon bucket. SCORE


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Two dead voles (thanks, cat!)
Big bucket of green weeds from the garden
wastebasket full of used toilet paper (we have a septic tank so it doesn't all get flushed)
Compost pail of kitchen scraps (coffee filters, orange peels, banana skins, egg shells, dead leftovers from the fridge, etc). I topped off the bucket with water so I don't have to hose it out. I empty it three times a week in the winter, once a day in the summer.
couple of pots of used potting soil from last fall
shredded junk mail
Big bucket full of dead leaves

Topped off with a few fork fulls of half-composted stuff from the other pile
Half inch of rain

It gets pretty hot!

Sandy


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Yesterday I took the bottom part of the bin - mostly finished compost - and top dressed my beds. The robins were having a field day.

I re-mixed the remaining contents and today will add:

5-gallons of kitchen waste from my neighbor
30-gallons of shredded paper waste from my brother-in-law
Fresh grass clippings (if necessary)

I don't worry about the ratios much because it is crawling with worms - mainly composting worms but earth worms as well.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

lots of flower petals that I swept off off my steps at work,shredded leaves, kitchen scraps, grass clippings,and some ripped up cardboard.


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a wheelbarrow of freshly cut grass clippings into the new pile and a pitchfork full of steaming hot compost from the month-old pile just to start things moving a little faster.

oh, and water.


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I fed my friend's compost the teabag from my travel mug. I had stopped by to drop off broccoli plants. My compost got the usual kitchen stuff.


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5-10 pounds of coffee grounds. Leftovers from Easter dinner (corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls), other kitchen scraps.


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Many buckets of wild mustard, dandelions, dock, and quack grass. (I say yes to the chickweed, as asked above. Even my slow cooking pile seems to kill weed seeds just fine.)

some leftover squirrel from the freezer, which I had kept for a LONG time so that I could say to guests, "There's some leftover squirrel in the freezer if you want some."


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Today is turning day - which might be a challenge since we got so much snow this weekend, things will be very heavy! And I'll finally get a chance to mix in some flour that is full of little buggies and grossing me out. Everyone cross your fingers that I don't end up making compost dough!


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  • Posted by pt03 2b Southern Manitob (My Page) on
    Mon, Apr 9, 12 at 16:16

Is it still March??

;-)

Lloyd


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

So meat products are OK to use in the pile? Someone had said to me that protein and meat were a no-no?


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Will a lot of garlic mustard make something useable or might it have a bad chemical effect----like black walnut???????-----------------------------------Weedy


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I think small amounts of meat are fine. I certainly wouldn't add a small steer to a 4'x4' pile :-) But a little leftover hamburger (buried deep in the pile) probably won't cause any problems.


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I have been reading some of the comments on this compost forum and there are a number of questions, hopefully I can answer.
I have a compost that is 8ft by 10ft by 4 1/2 feet deep. I have it completely filled with beautiful black compost by each may and I have a garden which is 30ft. by 90ft., which includes 5 raised beds. I use all my compost each years, with just a little left over to inoculate the next year's pile. I have never had disease nor bad bugs that I couldn't get rid of and I beleive it is because of the composting, which inoculates the veggies against these things.
suggestions;
I bring black trash bags to feed stores near where I live and ask if I can rake up any extra alfalfa or straw that is left over after customers buy bales of it. I always get the reply of "absolutely", because they just throw it away anyway. I can usually scrape up 5-6 black trash bags so full that my husband has to help carry them to the truck. Both are fantastic for the compost. Alfalfa is a nitrogen and is "hot", really heating up the compost and straw is a carbon, when mixed with water and a nitrogen, rapidly decomposes and the crushed up leaves really start to decompose when these items are added to a pile.
also, when you add fruit and veggies and starches...the more area to an item makes it break down faster. So, cut them up.
I never add weeds, just in case that part of my pile doesn't heat up enough to kill the seeds.
I turn it with a pitchfork about every two weeks...it takes a couple days and I call it my "gym membership".
When I turn the pile, I add layers of nitrogen then carbon, then compost, and water each layer as I add them. If the compost isn't damp, then it can't heat up.
The middle of a compost should get the hottest...up to 160 for a time of a few hours to a couple days, then it will start to cool somewhat. The outer part will not get that hot. This is why you turn your pile; to get the hottest part mixed with the cooler part. Worms play an integeral part of a compost pit or pile. They create worm castings, which are pure black gold. The worms live near the top and outer part of the pile. It you have many worms, you are doing great, if you have ants, you have a dry pile, which will never heat up!
We live in a cold climate in AZ and in the snow, you can see the pile steaming. When i turn it, I feel like I am in a sauna. the other day, I put a thermometer 2 ft. in from the edge (towards the center) and 6 inches down (small thermometer) and it registered 140 degrees, so I figure the core must be around 160. that was 30 hours after I turned and watered it. I waited a week and turned the pile. It started heating up again, but you need to add fuel...such as carbon and nitrogen each time and wet them down. You don't need tons, but some to get it going again.
Also, I stop at starbucks and get many, many bags of coffee grounds when I am in town. These are gold, as the worms love them, and they are high in nitrogen. I mix it together with leaves or straw.
Also, my husband mows the leaves up to shred them, or we use the sucker or chipper to get them very small. Remember; more surface area, faster decomposition. My compost is steaming now, and it should snow this week. I cant wait to get that wonderful black gold on my garden! Interestingly, each year I do this but my garden never overflows with soil!!! Because...It continues to compost year after year, and makes the soil richer and richer!


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This week I put in old broccoli, sugar snap peas, strawberries, egg shells, bad melon some old straw and about 20 worms I saved from drowning in the pond!


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Bread, lots of bread. :)

I don't put meat or animal bones in my pile, too much wildlife that likes to pilfer.

Metaxa used to talk about a digester for meat and bones. I don't know if he still reads here but if he does maybe he can tell us about it.


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Very funny about the bread. Watch you don't start a brawl.

shells1, thanks for the compost inspiration and ideas!


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A bunch of pine & spruce tree trimmings from my neighbor
Lemon grass plants and roots from last season
2 dozen dead carpenter bees
30 dozen egg shells crushed (snagged from school, Eggs Benedict demo)


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  • Posted by jolj 7b/8a-S.C.USA (My Page) on
    Fri, May 4, 12 at 18:06

Peelings from Kitchen,tea & coffee waste.
I always put egg shells in, so my compost will not get Bloom End Rot. :-)


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my soul


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Yeah I here ya

Today I left some skin and blood on the side of the bin by accident. Sharp edges

All chopped up:
Pineapple rinds
Banana peels
Urine
Coffee Grounds
Corn Cobs
Random Vegetable peels
Napkins
Wee bit a water


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one pink cotton shirt with cat urine on it
one feather pillow with cat urine on it
one cat
No, no, just kidding.


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how do you chop up urine? do you freeze it first? ;p


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Hmm MoleX that might be a good idea. I can save it for when I need it. Not like I cant make more when I want though..Lol


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Being out of the compost habit, I had to leave the thread mid-read to take things out of the trash!


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

This has always been one of my favorite threads. Don't let it die.

Today I shredded tons of paper -- by hand with not the greatest scissors. I really need a paper shredder.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

lots of fresh cut grass.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Nice and hot today ... grass clippings are awesome! Added a banana, onion, avocado peel/pit ... not much


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Hair and nail clippings
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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

mashed potatoes, corn, banana peel


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

today I added some old soy flour


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Today I added eggplant top and end scraps and two too toasted pitas. Not much but the composter appreciates every bite.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

I'm new here, but I fed mine a half watermelon that went bad, canteloupe rinds, mango peels and strawberry tops today.


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RE: March 2012 What have you fed your compost today?

Today I added some lemon slices, some funky brown lettuce, some squishy grape tomatoes, and assorted shredded junk mail. Man is is hot outside!


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