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Shredded Paper in Compost Pile
I understand I can put my shredded paper (bills and that type stuff) in
the compost pile, right? Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. |
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Shredded Paper in Compost Pile
Goomba38 wrote:
I understand I can put my shredded paper (bills and that type stuff) in the compost pile, right? Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Treat it like any other "brown" component of your compost. I used to compost newsprint many years ago by putting it through a big shredder and then wetting it down and adding a "starter", usually animal manure. Don't use plastic or the windows on windo envelopes. Everything shredded in my office goes to the compost heap even today. George |
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Goomba38 said:
I understand I can put my shredded paper (bills and that type stuff) in the compost pile, right? I do it all the time. Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). I'd not make paper a main ingredient, but it's easy to keep on hand to add a bit at a time. For instance, after that really rainy week when the lawn had gotten away from you and you have an abundance of grass clippings... -- Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast) Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (attributed to Don Marti) |
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Pat Kiewicz wrote:
Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). I'd not make paper a main ingredient, but it's easy to keep on hand to add a bit at a time. For instance, after that really rainy week when the lawn had gotten away from you and you have an abundance of grass clippings... Thank you that gives me an idea of how to work with this resource. I'd hate to waste it if I could use and benefit from it. Now.. about teabags...? |
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says... Thank you that gives me an idea of how to work with this resource. I'd hate to waste it if I could use and benefit from it. Now.. about teabags...? Teabags are fine - toss 'em right in. -- Get Credit Where Credit Is Due http://www.cardreport.com/ Credit Tools, Reference, and Forum |
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Goomba38 wrote:
Pat Kiewicz wrote: Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). I'd not make paper a main ingredient, but it's easy to keep on hand to add a bit at a time. For instance, after that really rainy week when the lawn had gotten away from you and you have an abundance of grass clippings... Thank you that gives me an idea of how to work with this resource. I'd hate to waste it if I could use and benefit from it. Now.. about teabags...? Milk and two sugars, cheers love. -- "Truth matters, God doesn't & life sucks." -- House, M.D. |
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On 2007-04-25, Tonto Goldstein wrote:
Milk and two sugars, cheers love. And on 2007-04-13, Matthew L. Martin wrote: Seen in a Chinese Cookbook: 1 TBS sugar, rinse well and set aside. The sugar was never referenced again. Just as well. -- Hi this is Leila. I'm not here right now. So please leave your name, number and a brief message and a time you called at the beep. And please try to be frank. |
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Shredded Paper in Compost Pile
On 2007-03-08, Pat Kiewicz wrote:
Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). And that's free of charge. -- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. [Robert R. Coveyou] |
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"Adam Funk" wrote
Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). And that's free of charge. Shave your pubes and add some hair. --oTTo-- GIF! |
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"Otto Bahn" wrote: "Adam Funk" wrote Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). And that's free of charge. Shave your pubes and add some hair. --oTTo-- GIF! It's too early in the morning for this for me, maybe after aperitifs, definitely after digestives. I would worry about salts in the urea, especially if it is beer based. If you have wolf based dogs, dogs with an undercoat, they will be dumping a lot of hair right about now that can be sown/turned into the garden. Better known as slow release nitrogen. Until it warms up, all my hair is staying right where it is, thank you very much, and if anything, getting longer. - Bill Gustibus coloribus non disputatum (mostly:-) |
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On 2007-03-09, William Rose wrote:
Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Just one caution, paper is very, very carbon intense, so you should also add an extra dose nitrogen-rich material to compensate. Lots of fresh grass, for example, or some urea (or other high-N fertilizer). And that's free of charge. Shave your pubes and add some hair. It's too early in the morning for this for me, maybe after aperitifs, definitely after digestives. I would worry about salts in the urea, especially if it is beer based. Beer-based? If beer makes up the majority of your diet, you won't be able to get any gardening done. If you have wolf based dogs, dogs with an undercoat, they will be dumping a lot of hair right about now that can be sown/turned into the garden. Better known as slow release nitrogen. And knitting sweaters (I've seen a book on this). -- Leila: "What if he's innocent?" Agent Rogersz: "No one is innocent." |
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Shredded Paper in Compost Pile
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:41:53 -0500, Goomba38 wrote:
I understand I can put my shredded paper (bills and that type stuff) in the compost pile, right? Any limitations on how much? My compost pile is newly started and I've not composted in far too many distant years past so wanted to double check. Avoid slick paper and printed colors. Slick paper has a clay seal to make it slick and also makes it harder to compost. Color inks may contain lead. Changes have been made in what goes into color inks to make them safer for us and the environment. I treat shredded paper the same as I treat oak leaves, cover them with chicken manure. Bird droppings of any kind are high nitrogen which aids in compost of things like paper, twigs, leaves. You may need to add some lime from time to time to balance the pile. For those who own chickens that spend at least part of the day in a coop, try tossing the shredded paper/ leaves/ small twigs under the perch. This will act as a mat to absorb chicken droppings and can be more easily moved to the compost pile. Yes, the birds will scatter it hunting for treats. Just rake it together when time to clean the coop. |
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:03:27 -0400, Vandy Terre
wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:41:53 -0500, Goomba38 wrote: For those who own chickens that spend at least part of the day in a coop, try tossing the shredded paper/ leaves/ small twigs under the perch. This will act as a mat to absorb chicken droppings and can be more easily moved to the compost pile. Yes, the birds will scatter it hunting for treats. Just rake it together when time to clean the coop. Not used paper but we do use sawdust and then transfer to the compost bin. Waiting to see how (if?) that composts. |
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Shredded Paper in Compost Pile
Steve Newport wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:03:27 -0400, Vandy Terre wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:41:53 -0500, Goomba38 wrote: For those who own chickens that spend at least part of the day in a coop, try tossing the shredded paper/ leaves/ small twigs under the perch. This will act as a mat to absorb chicken droppings and can be more easily moved to the compost pile. Yes, the birds will scatter it hunting for treats. Just rake it together when time to clean the coop. Not used paper but we do use sawdust and then transfer to the compost bin. Waiting to see how (if?) that composts. We used sawdust and wood shavings from a cabinet shop under our chicken roost 40 years ago with great success. Leave it lay there, the chickens scratch in it for tidbits and it self-composts in place. Once a month, or sooner, we would haul it over to the compost heap. Occasionally, if we were very busy it would go straight to the fallow part of the garden and get turned under. With chicken manure you have to make certain is is no longer hot or it will burn the crop. Rabbit manure, in my experience, can be put straight into the garden with no problems. George |
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