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  • From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wasted fertilizer
  • Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT)

Shredded junk mail works too.  Anna

Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
At 05:33 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:

>I have been using humanure for the last 8 years with good success,
>but I know what
>went into it. I wouldn't want to use other people's sewage, no
>way! Incidentally, I
>use dried leaves instead of sawdust because we have plenty of dried
>leaves from
>the wooded part of our land. The advantage of dried leaves is that
>the crumbly
>structure of the leaves lets in more air than would be the case with
>sawdust.
>After the initial composting, I mix in some clay.

Thanks for this info. I've been holding off on a sawdust toilet
because I couldn't find a nearby source of free or low-cost sawdust.
We have a large manufactured-wood industry in the local area, and the
sawmills sell their sawdust and wood chips by the truckload. But I do
have a large section of hardwoods, and had wondered whether leaf mold
might work as well as sawdust.




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