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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Moldy Compost
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:29:21 -0500

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@gmail.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@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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