[permaculture] Moldy Compost
Robert Waldrop
bwaldrop at cox.net
Fri Jul 10 12:29:21 EDT 2009
That's why I qualified my comments to my
experience, others mileage may vary. Although I
am not on a farm, I'm on a 1/7th acre lot in
central Oklahoma City.
Robert Waldrop, OKC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathew Waehner" <waehner at gmail.com>
To: "permaculture"
<permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Moldy Compost
> Robert, that is a difference between large and
> small scale composting. On a
> farm, a rat is no big problem, and the pile
> should easily get hot enough to
> render a little rat manure safe.
>
> I wouldn't assume either condition on a rooftop
> in NYC. I use grass
> clippings to heat my home scale compost pile,
> but organic grass clippings
> might not be easy to come by in NYC; herbicide
> carryover can be a real
> problem.
>
> Mold is a natural component of a cool, slow
> compost pile- good things like
> apple cores and banana peels mold in those
> conditions.
>
>
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