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Thu, Aug 2, 12 at 22:52
| Hey Everybody
There is a video on YouTube called how to compost manure in thirty days. It basically shows you how to speed up the composition of fresh manure using only water and black plastic. I would like to know if this could actually work. The reason is because Urban Paradise is starting a nursery at Amelia Earhart Park and because there is a petting zoo at the park I suggested using the cow, goat, pig, chicken and horse manure as a source of fertilizer for our plants. It would be great if this could be ready for our garden in only thirty days but I could really use someone who has more experience in this area. P.S. When they deliver the manure to us its mixed with bedding and all the different animal manures mixed together. Is that a problem? Also is pig manure O.K. |
Follow-Up Postings:
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- Posted by blazeaglory 10 SZ22 OC Ca (My Page) on Fri, Aug 3, 12 at 0:02
| http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/organic/2003082510028156.html Doesn't say anything about pig manure but then again who knows. |
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| If the ratio of animal maure to vegetative waste is about the optimal 3 parts vegetative waste to 1 part animal manure, and the amount of air and water in that mix are adequate the bacteria that digest that material will get to work fast. Compost can be made in 14 days. Water excludes air so too much water in the mix can cause the digestion process to become anerobic, in the abscence of air, which is the process used by digesters that capture the methane released by that process. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Compost in 14 days
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- Posted by toxcrusadr (My Page) on Fri, Aug 3, 12 at 10:50
| Fast compost from animal manures could be risky on vegetables, but otherwise, if it's turned, watered and supervised, it would probably work. Note, however, it will probably take more work to get it done fast than just piling it up and letting it do its thing for a few months, so you trade labor for time. |
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| The temperatures of that 14 day compost can reach into the 140 to 160 degree F range which is sufficient to kill any disease pathogens that might be in the mix, providing the instructions are followed. Studies I have seen on manure piles, even with bedding which is generally an insufficent amount of vegetative matter, indicates that disease pathogens are still viable after several months of that manure just sitting around. |
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