compost pile construction
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compost pile construction
I know that a good pile requires both "brown" and "green" stuff to work. I have a nearly unlimited supply of mulched brown leaves from my acreage. No significant source of green stuff during the winter. Is the cow manure that you buy bagged in a garden center too processed to have any value in a compost pile? If not how much should I mix in to get the thing started?
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toss in your kitchen scraps. vegatable trimmings, eggshells, spent coffee grounds, etc. a little soil from the yard, a handfull of any fertilizer. that should get thing going.
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Dehydrated cow manure is more of a soil amendment than something you'd add to your pile. I don't add much to my pile over the winter other than kitchen scraps, coffee filters, etc. Over the summer I add grass clippings which really gets a pile heated up.