[Homestead] compost
Bill Jones
billj at harborside.com
Mon Mar 10 18:20:46 EDT 2008
keith bellinger wrote:
>It has been twenty-nine months since we sold the two milk cows and
>butchered the last calf. They will never be forgotten but springtime
>always refreshes the memories of what they gave us when I back the truck
>up to the big pile of compost between barn and coop to replenish the
>garden. Four half-ton truckloads or more each year give the garden beds
>two or three inches of topping after I fork and rake. I estimate thirty
>tons are left and so should last until I turn sixty-six. What will I do
>for the following forty years?
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If you sprinkle on some soaked alfalfa pellets before you put the
topping on, I'm sure you could stretch that manure a lot further. That
seems like a lot of manure to apply every year. There's even a problem
you can get by overmanuring, small bugs known as symphylans.
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