Re: COMPOST 101

**sanderson** 12/1/2022, 8:57 pm

I bought this book used on eBay. It's glossy with photos and drawings, sort of reminds me of our ANSFG book.

OhioGardener 12/2/2022, 10:05 am

I have both the "Complete Compost Gardening Guide", and "Let It Rot: The Gardener's Guide to Composting", in PDF format. Both have good, useful information.

Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
Walt Whitman, "This Compost"

OhioGardener 4/21/2023, 5:55 pm

While reading the Grow Your Soil book, I came upon this simple on-line guide titled "How to Build a Compost Pile", which provides simple, straight-forward guidance on composting.

https://www.storey.com/article/how-to-build-a-compost-pile/

markqz 4/21/2023, 6:45 pm

OhioGardener wrote:While reading the Grow Your Soil book, I came upon this simple on-line guide titled "How to Build a Compost Pile", which provides simple, straight-forward guidance on composting.

Do you think we need to worry about Grazon (sp?) in straw?

OhioGardener 4/21/2023, 7:22 pm

markqz wrote:
OhioGardener wrote:While reading the Grow Your Soil book, I came upon this simple on-line guide titled "How to Build a Compost Pile", which provides simple, straight-forward guidance on composting.
Do you think we need to worry about Grazon (sp?) in straw?

Here in the farm belt Grazon is used pirmarily for pasture land to kill broadleaf plants out of grass. I have talked with a number of local farmers, and none of them use Grazon on wheat fields during their rotations. Almost all of them, use glyphosate on the corn and beans during their rotation since they plant Roundup-ready seeds. They can spray glyphosate on wheat that is ready for harvest since the wheat plants are already dead and the glyphosate will only be absorbed by the weeds that are still growing. If that were done I don't know what effect that glyphosate would have on the straw, but it probably would not be good for mulching or composting. Fortunately for me, the farmer I get the straw from does not use any herbicides.

**sanderson** 4/22/2023, 2:31 pm

OhioGardener wrote:While reading the Grow Your Soil book, I came upon this simple on-line guide titled "How to Build a Compost Pile", which provides simple, straight-forward guidance on composting.

https://www.storey.com/article/how-to-build-a-compost-pile/

Simple little link. I like it.

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