Evening all,
Over the years have seen some interesting talk on here about composting muck / making compost... everything from stacking dung under trees to incorporate leaf litter and additional fungi to talk of regular turning to minimise temperatures and ideal C:N ratio's??
In short I have got hold of several hundred tonnes of deep litter cattle manure from a local farm, its been in the shed at 3' deep since last winter - looks wet and anaerobic when you put a spade into it but on other hand the beasts are bedded on a nice mix of straw and woodchip and animals are by no means high input in terms of feed or medication etc - a biologically active start in principle?
What to do from here? Will be tipped on field headland under hedge / trees by necessity, worth sending a sample off to Laverstoke from the outset?
Thanks
Over the years have seen some interesting talk on here about composting muck / making compost... everything from stacking dung under trees to incorporate leaf litter and additional fungi to talk of regular turning to minimise temperatures and ideal C:N ratio's??
In short I have got hold of several hundred tonnes of deep litter cattle manure from a local farm, its been in the shed at 3' deep since last winter - looks wet and anaerobic when you put a spade into it but on other hand the beasts are bedded on a nice mix of straw and woodchip and animals are by no means high input in terms of feed or medication etc - a biologically active start in principle?
What to do from here? Will be tipped on field headland under hedge / trees by necessity, worth sending a sample off to Laverstoke from the outset?
Thanks
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