Re: Composting manure

Posted by Geo-TH,In on March 30, 2017 at 04:43:53 from (172.78.3.66):

In Reply to: Composting manure posted by JimS on March 29, 2017 at 18:44:55:

Jim,
Neighbor uses sawdust in his stalls. His horses generate about 6 cubic yards of road apples and sawdust each month which he is happy to get rid of and I'm happy to haul it away. The poo has very little fertilizer in it, but the wet sawdust, horse pee, is full of everything, N, P, K even calcium.

Google pee, you will find some are even thinking it makes a great liquid fertilizer. The wet sawdust if full of it.

My research I found it takes N to jump start composting of leaves which I add to my mulch pile in fall. Composting leafs removes N in the beginning. Grass clippings are full of fertilizer. People that bag their grass are removing nutrients from lawn. Grass decomposes very fast.

I add wood chips I get from tree trimmers. My neighbor's son started a stump grinding business. He brings me woodchips and some dirt. That's the best thing to add to compost pile. Woodchips are somewhat like leafs, takes a little nitrogen in the beginning, but long term benefits outweigh the loss.

Now to answer your question, keep it wet and PhD. Pile it higher and deeper to help trap the heat generated when composting. If my compost is dry, I will spread it out and let it get wet when it rains, then keep it PhD over the winter. It takes about a year to compost. Getting it hot will kill weed seeds. Composting is done when it no longer makes heat, steaming horse smell.

I use my terramites to pile it about 8 ft. Also by piling that high when I blend in other things, I put a scoop of each one at a time on the pile. As it rolls down, they get blended together.

I recently added 12 yards of compost to garden and neighbor used his tiller to blend it in. I do buy Ag lime and add a little. Not really sure lime improves composting as much as water and Nitrogen. Some say add 46-0-0 to compost to speed things up, but I'm too cheap. Wet sawdust works well for me.

geo.

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