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Turf compost bin?
Hello all, great site!
Apologies if this has been asked before, I did a number of searches here and didn't find anything directly relevant. I'm stripping the turf off an area approx. 90ft by 20ft. I was thinking of stacking my turves to make loam, when a thought occurred to me: why not build a compost bin using the stacked turves as walls? This way I'd get some use out of the turves, and would have a compost bin in situ for the next 12 months while waiting for the turves to rot down. Is this a good idea or are there pitfalls with this plan? Any input would be greatly appreciated! |
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:02:58 +0000, sherman
wrote: Hello all, great site! Apologies if this has been asked before, I did a number of searches here and didn't find anything directly relevant. I'm stripping the turf off an area approx. 90ft by 20ft. I was thinking of stacking my turves to make loam, when a thought occurred to me: why not build a compost bin using the stacked turves as walls? This way I'd get some use out of the turves, and would have a compost bin in situ for the next 12 months while waiting for the turves to rot down. Is this a good idea or are there pitfalls with this plan? Any input would be greatly appreciated! I think gardeners world were trialling exactly that as one of the methods in a comparitive compost test. So presumably there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the idea. JB |
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Is this a good idea or are there pitfalls with this plan? Any input would be greatly appreciated! -- They did it on Gardeners world the other week so why not |
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