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Success!! I made my pallet compost bins (minus one pallet). The one in the middle should slide out to allow us to transfer compost from side one to side two. Made from heat-treated pallets collected for free, some pieces of wood from a disintegrating picnic table the last owners left, some buckthorn sticks, and a handful of screws from a box of 500 I bought several years ago, knowing I'd eventually find uses for them.
Here's the bin a few hours later filled with apple leaves, some failed mushroom buckets, and a little fertilizer because I don't have much green to put in it.
Waiting to go get the motherload of leaves from my friend across town.
Does anyone know how well fertilizer works to make a hot pile?
#compost #allotment #gardening
I've never had a hot pile. I've always just piled things up and hoped for the best. I think I would love to have compost that doesn't randomly sprout stuff.
@MCDuncanLab Mix in a good amout of fresh grass clippings or, if you've got a craft brewery nearby, a sack of spent grain. If we add both our heap gets up to 70°C (~160°F)
Oh, exciting!! I'd never thought about getting material from a brewery. There is a brewery just down the road. I'll give them a call and see if they give away spent grain.
Grass clippings are hard to come by this time of year.
This is the eternal problem for us, a glut of browns in the fall but few greens and a glut of greens in the spring but few browns.
Most spent grain goes to animal feed (for free) but some breweries pay to have it collected. If you can grow some hops then maybe a collaboration is in order.