Everything tagged · hot-pile
hot-pile
4 published entries
- 01 Horse manure and straw bedding, two pallet bins A full winter's bedding from one stable box, 340 L of finished compost, and the anthelmintic question that decides whether it can go on a vegetable bed.
- 02 Summer grass clippings balanced with corrugated cardboard Nine mowings over eleven weeks, 780 g of nitrogen-rich clippings per mowing, and the two days the cage went sour because the grass went in wet and matted.
- 03 The 18-day hot method, and why the size rule is not negotiable Turn every second day, keep the pile above 55 °C, and you can have finished compost in under three weeks. The catch is that the method only works above a minimum…
- 04 Oak leaf and coffee chaff in a 190 L tumbler The first bin of the season: 22 kg of last autumn's oak leaves, 6 kg of coffee chaff from a roaster two streets away, and the moisture problem that nearly stalled week…
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