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Composting Dung??
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<blockquote data-quote="martian" data-source="post: 6875736" data-attributes="member: 801"><p>It might depend on where you are, rainfall-wise, but in this part of the country the ingredients that you're describing would make perfect compost without watering or covering...but you'll need to mix them thoroughly and regularly. We found a lovely mixer last year, or rather it found us and it has really transformed the job. Turning with a 360 didn't really do the job and was painfully slow. </p><p></p><p>It's a bit of trial and error, working out the right proportions to add...chicken litter is rocket fuel obviously , so you'd want to mix that with plenty of high carbon stuff, straw or horse bedding, then plonk the rest in as it comes. A good mixer will chew it all up and aerate and mix it, the bugs will get the temperature right up (you don't want to get it above 70 degrees or you'll wipe out all the best bugs) and you'll end up with a tiny heap of compost...it's amazing how much disappears, but what is left is like gold-dust. Where we spread it last year our crops are way ahead of everywhere else and healthier. Go for it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martian, post: 6875736, member: 801"] It might depend on where you are, rainfall-wise, but in this part of the country the ingredients that you're describing would make perfect compost without watering or covering...but you'll need to mix them thoroughly and regularly. We found a lovely mixer last year, or rather it found us and it has really transformed the job. Turning with a 360 didn't really do the job and was painfully slow. It's a bit of trial and error, working out the right proportions to add...chicken litter is rocket fuel obviously , so you'd want to mix that with plenty of high carbon stuff, straw or horse bedding, then plonk the rest in as it comes. A good mixer will chew it all up and aerate and mix it, the bugs will get the temperature right up (you don't want to get it above 70 degrees or you'll wipe out all the best bugs) and you'll end up with a tiny heap of compost...it's amazing how much disappears, but what is left is like gold-dust. Where we spread it last year our crops are way ahead of everywhere else and healthier. Go for it! [/QUOTE]
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