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Wed, Aug 10, 11 at 21:15
| I've been adding garden waste (weeds, table scraps, etc.) to the compost pile all season. In the fall, I plan to remove the top layers of the pile that are still more or less intact, take the well-rotted lower layers, and till them into the garden beds along with some aged manure and bedding. This year's top layers will form the start of next year's pile.
Does that sound like a good plan? |
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- Posted by jonhughes So.Oregon (jonehughes@hotmail.com) on Wed, Aug 10, 11 at 23:43
| Sounds great.....;-) But if it is possible, if you mix it all up real good now, the whole pile will be usable by fall ! !
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| Many of us find that, most often if we do not regularly turn our compost, we have undigested material on the top and sides that needs to be seperated from the finished stuff at the bottom and in the middle and repiled tostart a new compost pile. That is why many of us have two or three compost piles and sometimes turn one pile into another pile or bin, making sure the outside material gets into the middle of the new pile where the bacteria that digest tht are hardest at work. |
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- Posted by nygardener z6 New York (My Page) on Thu, Aug 11, 11 at 19:18
| Great. It seems to be cooking in there, and shrinks down on its own, so I hope when I finally get to looking inside I'll find some nice, earthy stuff. |
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| If a pile shrank to 1/3 of its original size, turned all black but still mostly skeleton of shredded leaves and twigs. Are they ready to be used ie roto-til into soil? or still too raw and not ready? Are they just leaf molds? |
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