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| My first pile sits around back, 10'x4'. Exciting barely describes my frame of mind. Along with approximately 10k EF worms in an inside bin, my summer has started beautifully. Mind you, my voyage seems to be my destination as I have yet to set uop any Earthboxes or Global buckets. This will be a year for the ages.
So here's my question: I have 20 bottles of expired and rotted juices, milks, and the like ready to be thrown onto my pile. Should I combine with "de-chlorinated" water (essentially aerated for a few hours) in a 55 gallon barrel? What would you do? Hopefully, a kind, knowledgeable soul will grant a response this afternoon as I have a few hours off this week to work in the yard. Have a great summer! |
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| I just dump them directly on the pile. Use them when the pile is dry to add moisture. |
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- Posted by toxcrusadr (My Page) on Tue, Jun 19, 12 at 16:05
| Ditto. And the 1 ppm or so of available chlorine in drinking water will disappear in an instant as soon as any kind of organic matter is added, so there's no real reason (in my mind) to worry about chlorine. But it certainly doesn't hurt anything to air it out either, if it makes you feel better. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 9:28
| Nice pile! Maybe if you add these things as they come up, you wouldn't have such a quantity of something that it concerns you. Sounds kind of icky & should be rotting in the pile, not somewhere else, IMO. Juice is just the moisture from fruit with all of those "good for you" things in it. Why wouldn't it be great for compost? I don't compost dairy, but that's a personal preference in regard to our dog, not because I think it would harm the compost. The past few years I've read a lot of sources that say this "let your water sit for the chlorine to evaporate" thing is an old wives' tale at this point in time because hardly any municipalites still use the old system of water chlorination, which did evaporate. The methods currently in use by almost all tap water producers does not evaporate. Just outdated info that is still distributed out of habit. |
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- Posted by Phephito none (phephito@gmail.com) on Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 10:36
| Thanks guys! Believe it or not crates of the expired stuff were sitting on the sidewalk recently altho it is my personality to let things pile up. Didnt I read somewhere that a tea can be made from things like this? Andre |
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