The quarterly flipping of the compost

Discussion in 'The Green Patch' started by TnAndy, Feb 23, 2021.


  1. TnAndy

    TnAndy Senior Member Founding Member

    I built 3 compost bins while back, 10'x10'x4' high in the back on a concrete base and keep two of them filled with a mix of horse manure, sawdust, chicken manure, cow barn cleanout, wood chips, wood ashes, leaves, etc and flip one into an empty bin and flip the other into just emptied bin. I 'seed' it with red wigglers from my worm bed, and they multiply into thousands and do wonders for the compost.

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  2. Dunerunner

    Dunerunner Brewery Monkey Moderator

    Ha!! My compost pile is 2'X2' and maybe 18" high.... Yours makes mine look like a single cow patty in a fifteen acre pasture.
    Well done and, I wish I had fish bait living in my pile....
     
  3. TnAndy

    TnAndy Senior Member Founding Member

    The real worm bed is just outside the chicken house.....we'll clean it out that light colored door, right into the worm bed. You can stick a pitchfork in it and come up with a hundred worms easy. I'll dip some out with the tractor bucket to 'seed' the compost bins.

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  4. Thunder5Ranch

    Thunder5Ranch Monkey+++

    We loves the compost here :)
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  5. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    Industrial composting, just the thing for your massive gardens.

    I'm pretty green right now...with garden envy....
     
  6. Yard Dart

    Yard Dart Vigilant Monkey Moderator

    I have my first gen composting pile starting at the new AO... they are doing a great job adding to the mix. 20201207_074429_resized.
     
  7. TnAndy

    TnAndy Senior Member Founding Member

    Like those Highlanders ! They probably don't know what to do with that quality of hay.
     
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  8. Yard Dart

    Yard Dart Vigilant Monkey Moderator

    Yep....they are like goats....they have brush hogged the current pasture they are in.
    Makes it a heck of a lot easier to get in and thin the trees....when everything else has been eaten or trampled. :)
     
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