Re: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1061
Dan Hook (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 29 May 1999 22:20:00 -0400
Dear Frank, We live on a farm and our compost is just in one big pile but I
read every word you wrote, you write in a very entertaining style. I
enjoyed it very much. Thank-you Beth
Leaves and yard wastes are generally unattractive to rats, IME, and a simple
>piece of turkey fence can be adequate for holding such materials. Your food
>waste compost, once it has mostly broken down, can be added into the center
>of the leaf pile to add nutrients and speed the decomposition, and worms
>also will hasten the movement towards humus. I have found it helpful to
>line leaf containers with geotextile and cover the pile with same, which
>slows the drying out of the outsides of the pile while allowing air in.
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>Frank Teuton---a trash can fan, for the urban Fran or Stan, who is not
>budgeted for a ComposTumbler (I'll pay $2.50/cubic foot, but not ten times
>that, thank you very much...:-)
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