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- From: <permed@nor.com.au>
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: home made fertilizer
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 01 12:03:38 +1100
Re: urine in sawdust
>Toby Hemenway, wrote: I prefer
>using fine shavings unless I can get coarse sawdust, because the sawdust
>from all but the big mill saws is too fine, and often packs down into a
>gooey, anaerobic lump that gets really foul in the center and is hard to
>spread out evenly in a compost pile.
We have a sawdust-composting urinal here at Djanbung Gardens - actually
got Council approval to set it up for the Australasian PC Convergence
held here 4 years ago & has been in operation since. The approval was
given mainly on the basis of the dedicated composting system I designed
for it.
Key problem with composting buckets of urine saturated sawdust is the
excess liquid, compacting potential and resulting anaerobic conditions.
Compost bay has a 30-40 cm dry straw base to absorb liquid and the urinal
sawdust is alternated with thin layers of dry straw for aeration - works
well.
Robyn
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Re: home made fertilizer
, (continued)
- Re: home made fertilizer, mbgrey, 03/19/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Toby Hemenway, 03/19/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Evan Davies, 03/20/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Xavier Dequaire, 03/20/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Australia Felix Permaculture, 03/20/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Toby Hemenway, 03/20/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Scott Pittman, 03/20/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Australia Felix Permaculture, 03/20/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, igg, 03/21/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Toby Hemenway, 03/22/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, permed, 03/22/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, Xavier Dequaire, 03/26/2001
- Re: home made fertilizer, permed, 03/28/2001
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