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| My first composting project was sucessful. Very little of it was used as I didnt do much gardening this year. Some facts:
- The pile is 3' high x 8 feet wide
What are my choices? I am interested in how people over-winter their finished compost. Garbage Bags, sealed containers or bags, food grade plastic barrels? I am very interested in your responses.
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- Posted by lazygardens PhxAZ%3A Sunset 13 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 4, 12 at 16:51
| Spread it where the garden will be in the spring. If that area is covered with lawn or seeds, put down a layer of cardboard or several pages of newspapers overlapped, and then spread the compost. It will suppress weeds. In the spring, just plant veggies in the compost. |
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- Posted by Phephito none (phephito@gmail.com) on Thu, Oct 4, 12 at 23:01
| Im confused. No seepage of the good stuff? Id like to have nutritious compost come spring. |
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| The nutrients in compost are not very soluble, they will not be washed out, leached from, during the winter so plunking that material onto the garden now will not result in a major loss of nutrients. What putting that compost on your garden now will do is allow the Soil Food Web to begin working on the compost, working it into the soil where it will help your plants sooner next spring then if you wait until spring to plunk the stuff there. |
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- Posted by Phephito none (phephito@gmail.com) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 8:17
| Interesting. It seems I have a reason to start spreading the compost now. kimmsr, how do you know this? I would imagine that over time (and rains) the soil would be eroded of all its .... As I write this I realize how wrong that statement is. Soil Food Web and worms would then take over wouldnt it? The area would become even more nutritious for plants, insects, worms, and the like. thanks for that. Ill put down cardboard and newspaper first then compost to attract worms. Thanks guys. |
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- Posted by toxcrusadr (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 12:34
| Even 'finished' looking compost will continue to decompose somewhat. It is at its most nutritious at that point, so whenever someone is thinking about storing it for a long period, they usually get advice to put it into the soil now and let the critters do their thing with it, rather than let it sit. I've been known to keep a bag or a bucket of compost around for a couple months when I was anticipating a need for it, and it's not fatal to do that, but in your case I think putting it into the garden is the right thing. |
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