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Hot and cold composting
On 20/11/2020 07:15, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:29:03 +0000, Derek wrote: Was informed a few years ago, that Garotta was a waste of money, as there is enough (of what Garotta supplied) in any spade full of soil, I am not sure that is entirely true at least on small garden heaps it does seem to help them to go hot at more a modest size. I don't have shares in Garotta, but I do think it can be useful in small gardens to help a heap along at the start of a season. This thread made me look up the ingredients in Garotta, seems that its "Active ingredients - Nitrogen with ground limestone." now being a follower of Gardeners Question time, seem to remember they were belivers of "Urine has been long-established as a free compost "activator" (aka "liquid gold"), because it's full of nitrogen. Take your choice of acitvator :-) Peeing on your compost heap was recommended here several times a few years ago. I do wonder, being male, of a certain age, and with the compost heap being some distance from the house, whether such an activity will become physiologically "de rigueur" in the future. :-) On a more scientific point, I found a soil thermometer I had forgotten about and pushed it in the top of my compost heap a few days ago. Yesterday, about 22 cm down, it recorded 20 deg C. Is that high, low, or average for this time of year? -- Jeff |
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Jeff Layman wrote: On 20/11/2020 07:15, Chris Hogg wrote: Peeing on your compost heap was recommended here several times a few years ago. Given that it has been SOP for millennia, and I remember it being recommended here within a year or two of this newsgroup being started, that's playing it down! I do wonder, being male, of a certain age, and with the compost heap being some distance from the house, whether such an activity will become physiologically "de rigueur" in the future. :-) Mine is c. 4' high and I am no longer, er, up to it :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 20/11/2020 15:06, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , Jeff Layman wrote: On 20/11/2020 07:15, Chris Hogg wrote: Peeing on your compost heap was recommended here several times a few years ago. Given that it has been SOP for millennia, and I remember it being recommended here within a year or two of this newsgroup being started, that's playing it down! I do wonder, being male, of a certain age, and with the compost heap being some distance from the house, whether such an activity will become physiologically "de rigueur" in the future. :-) Mine is c. 4' high and I am no longer, er, up to it :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. Mine is the size of a container. Shipping container, and I am only halfway through cutting back 20 year old yews, and hornbeams and another bloody great tree has fallen over...and the new woodshed is full already... ....But I have been impressed with the bedroom wood-burning stove's ability to chew through very small branches and generate tropical conditions. -- "Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold." ― Confucius |
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 03:11:49 The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 20/11/2020 15:06, Nick Maclaren wrote: In article , Jeff Layman wrote: On 20/11/2020 07:15, Chris Hogg wrote: Peeing on your compost heap was recommended here several times a few years ago. Given that it has been SOP for millennia, and I remember it being recommended here within a year or two of this newsgroup being started, that's playing it down! I do wonder, being male, of a certain age, and with the compost heap being some distance from the house, whether such an activity will become physiologically "de rigueur" in the future. :-) Mine is c. 4' high and I am no longer, er, up to it :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. Mine is the size of a container. Shipping container, and I am only halfway through cutting back 20 year old yews, and hornbeams and another bloody great tree has fallen over...and the new woodshed is full already... For the last two years I have been lowering my hornbeam hedge in France to about three feet as I no longer want to totter on a stepladder to keep it in order. I haven't been able to visit France at all this year and my son-in-law, who visited recently to check on the house, sent a photo back which showed that it has grown as high as ever! I wouldn't have planted hornbeam but when there was a remembrement some thirty years ago, I was given the hornbeam free by the local authority. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK |
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On 21/11/2020 09:33, David Rance wrote:
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 03:11:49 The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 20/11/2020 15:06, Nick Maclaren wrote: In article , Jeff LaymanÂ* wrote: On 20/11/2020 07:15, Chris Hogg wrote: Peeing on your compost heap was recommended here several times a few years ago. Â*Given that it has been SOP for millennia, and I remember it being recommended here within a year or two of this newsgroup being started, that's playing it down! I do wonder, being male, of a certain age, and with the compost heap being some distance from the house, whether such an activity will become physiologically "de rigueur" in the future. :-) Â*Mine is c. 4' high and I am no longer, er, up to it :-( Â* Regards, Nick Maclaren. Mine is the size of a container. Shipping container, and I am only halfway through cutting back 20 year old yews, and hornbeams and another bloody great tree has fallen over...and the new woodshed is full already... For the last two years I have been lowering my hornbeam hedge in France to about three feet as I no longer want to totter on a stepladder to keep it in order. I haven't been able to visit France at all this year and my son-in-law, who visited recently to check on the house, sent a photo back which showed that it has grown as high as ever! I wouldn't have planted hornbeam but when there was a remembrement some thirty years ago, I was given the hornbeam free by the local authority. David I love it - only thing on super wet clay - but it has to be kept in its place. -- Renewable energy: Expensive solutions that don't work to a problem that doesn't exist instituted by self legalising protection rackets that don't protect, masquerading as public servants who don't serve the public. |
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