Extreme Composting

Thanks for thinking of me, DEKE.


I'm also working to overcome my misanthropic and egocentric tendencies.

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I've cleaned this up again and all posts deleted either were trying to change the thread or made comments concerning quotes or replies to this. Please do not try to make it into what it is not.

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Upon reflection of my earlier attempts to convey my thoughts...

Yep, you're right in a way and I will call it a sort of hugelkultur.

Perhaps you should work harder...



I'm filling a complaint with management. There is no good composting emoticon out there.

Fortunately, I'm perfect in every way so I have nothing to work on.

Closest I can come up with: (burying a dead horse) (stirring compost)

Last nice day before lousy weather gets here. Hopefully I can get this pile finished up before the snow gets here.

C'mon Spring!

I don't mind the snow, so much.

It's gratifying to see the black piles poking out after a good ten-twelve inch dusting.

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Forerunner I'd hazard a guess that you're more familiar with snow in Illinois than I am here in Arkansas. I don't like it anytime the temperature drops low enough to snow.

But, I'll be missing this kind of weather around August when it's 100 degrees and high humidity to go along with it. Just hard to please I guess.

Well, I guess.....


Your poor wife.


ETA.......

All of my "sources" are currently frozen down, tight.....cuz of this weather, and the break has been refreshing.




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Wow, what a great read!

Here's to all who like to commune with the pile.

With all this new knowledge my worms are going to love their new home.

Thanks again for an excellent thread.

Mtncalm : )

Glad you could join us.


Watch those worms.....

They're party animals.

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I know.......they're such a bunch of rowdies!

Shoestringer: I have 5 inside cats and use a combination of pressed pine pellets and ground walnuts. It may be expensive but is entirely compostable and "the pile" has been slowly decomposing away in a forested area in our backyard for a few years. It all eventually rots and no smells ....the leaves cover it up and we have some kinda crazy green weed playing a happy dance on it....BTW...the odor in the house is quite controlled too...I don't have to scoop as often as I did with that plasti-clay stuff I used to have.....but just pine pellets by themselves did not do the odor control....go figure

Snowing again today so no pile building, But there's always a bright side. I've always heard that snow adds Nitrogen so the soil is getting some good stuff anyway.

Great, I just snorted hot chocolate on my keyboard. Thanks.

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Forerunner, on either this thread or one of your related ones you mentioned a preference for oak wood chips. Do you mind telling us why?

Density..... more material in the same space....and, having grown up around hardwood forestry and even doing a short stint working at the local sawmill in my late teens...I just love the smell of oak.

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Thanks. I kind of thought so but I didn't know if you had another factor in mind. Luckily for me, oaks are my one of my greatest resources ... that and rocks.

Teach me how to compost a rock and I'll be a happy man. Those puppies won't go away no matter how much I commune with them.

Just need lichen and 10,000 years.

Unless it's limestone, in which case acid rain should do the trick in a little less time.

I just happen to have a rock composter.

Interestingly enough, it kinda works on the principle of a barrel composter.

I'll get some pics of it tomorrow.

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