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We use a compost pile, with tubes running through it, to collect heat and we pump it through our propagation beds in our greenhouse.
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For a brief period, the sun came out so Stu got out the lawn mower and hooked up the hauler and brought some compost to the back garden in the backyard. That hauler has been so great. He was using a wheelbarrow before and that was heavy.
The composter came from Staten Island, and I think it was just $20. It took about 20 minutes to put it together.
This will be our first time composting without worms.
Bwahahaa...I didn't realize until just now, that when I took this pic of my work area, my old lab was back there working on a little compost pile of his own.
The three bin composting system provides a space to store browns (carbon rich materials) and greens (nitrogen rich materials) - as well as a place to mix them (compost). This composting system is located at the Lincoln County Master Gardener demonstration garden, on the Lincoln City Campus of Oregon Coast Community College.
Tubs (15x22x11 inches) have one drain hole and are tilted to drip into the lower pans.
Each tub contains a couple inches of shredded paper and cardboard on the bottom, compost-able materials (vegetable and other plant scraps, coffee grounds, crushed egg shells, dead tree leaves, aged horse manure, a little dirt, more shredded paper and a bit of saw dust) in the middle with about 1/2 pound of composting red worms and another layer of shredded paper for the top layer. Covering with sheets of newspaper seems to cut down on the flying insects.
Each tub weighs 45-70 pounds and will sit untouched for about 4 months. Tops are left open for easy humidity and airflow control. Clear tubs allow for enjoyable viewing :)
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152 degrees in the new orchard compost pile. This is the pile with pine needles and oak leaves added for more acidity. It's layered with wood chips, horse manure and several gallons of rain water lightly sprinkled on each layer. This will become mulch for the blueberries in the Spring. Learn more at Half Hill Farm.
These plastic composters, sometimes called 'Darth Vaders' due to their resemblance to helmet of the infamous 'Star Wars' character, are a low cost way to compost garden and kitchen waste. Their dark color helps to heat the compost. The covered lid keeps the compost from getting rain-soaked. However, some compost aficionados don't care for these bins, claiming that they don't allow for adequate intake of oxygen.
Sunday afternoon's outside project was setting up this new, third compost bin. I picked up two palettes form THAT Brewery and repaired a third one that was half buried in junk.
The barrel is from a local hospital (don't worry - no biohazard materials) and the frame is the roll bar from a Jeep CJ7. The steel bar going through the center is from our closets. When we moved in the previous owners had used steel pipe for the hang bars in all the closets. We saved them all when we updated the closets... 9 years later we pulled one out for a compost bin. Who would have thought?!
The pee toilet goes into a container and poop only in the pit. A man designed this toilet. A two story toilet does not seem to appeal to women. And there is not seated pee toilet.
Aeration tubes in a compost bin that uses the Johnson-Su method. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
The box that Don Fitzgerald helped me build a few years ago. A few boards are cracking, but it has held up well. I was "turning" the compost when this picture was taken which involves moving most of it from one side to the other.
In our West Coast environment, composting needs plenty of air circulation so that the kitchen scraps and garden waste actually compost - an aerobic process that produces little odour. The widely used black plastic bins are not so great - poor air circulation, very hard to turn or empty, and SMELLY! Our solution is this two-lidded box made of Western Red Cedar and wire mesh (sometimes we even have wire mesh panels on the sides, too). The front boards are removable, right down to the ground, so turning and emptying are easy.