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Make a SFG grid

Xtin, #10 machine screws with nuts.

How to lay out 44"x44" boxes

AtlantaMarie wrote:Grids... I know Mel preferred the lathe. But I use string. Maybe some duct tape to hold it on?

For the beds without wood grids, I use 7/8" #10 screws on the top of the sides, leaving just enough room to hook the strings around.

Cover is working nicely for me.

Professional tailor! I love the photo of dozens of little plants are secure inside. #10

Compost: Berkeley 18 day [hot] method

I know I posted this under No. Cal topic but as it is a Berkeley pile, I thought it should go here also. I had to remove finished compost before I could build the new one, aka Pile #10. It took four 33-gallon rolling garbage bins for less than half a bin!! Visually judging the volumes between conical, cylinder and cube containers is hard to do. The built-base temp last night was 50*F, This morning at 10 AM it's 80*F.

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The material spread on the tarp was not quite enough to fill the 3x3x3' cage. Judging conical volumes for a cube can be hard. Husband is standing there say, "You'll never get this all in." Then he had to mow/chop up some more!

I used the following 5-gallon quantities: 28 mowed wet leaves, 1 bale or 27 mowed alfalfa hay, 1 of Starbucks, 8.5 small crumbled horse manure and total of 3/4 cup of blood meal sprinkled on 3 layers. Gallon-wise, this totals over 27 cu ft, but as it is built and watered, everything compresses. When it's finished in 3-4 weeks, it will be down to 18-20" in height. I generally get temps as high as 160-170*F for a few days, so most of the seeds and contaminates are killed.

My neighbors have yard services, so the only things that would be spread on the lawns are fertilizer and maybe rye grass seeds for winter. I carefully, lightly rake up the leaves, being on the watch and sniff for doggy doo and twigs. I hope all of this helps.

California - What are you doing this month?

Finally ready to build Compost pile #10. Well, as soon as I find more storage room for finished #9!

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To Compost or not to Compost that is the question...

The color Purple for my husband! And I loved the math questions!

This is the calculator I used to try to get a good balance of greens and browns. http://klickitatcounty.org/SolidWaste/fileshtml/organics/compostCalc.htm

For this last pile, #10 ??, which I think is the best I've done, the manure was broken up into little poos, veggies chopped or squished, and the leaves (front pile) and alfalfa hay (rear pile) mowed. I used the amount of poo on hand (four 5-gal buckets) and chopped produce (four 5-gal buckets) with the calculator to see if Ken needed to get me more manure for this batch of compost. I ended up with a C:N ratio of 20.16!! Not bad for me.

4 buckets of little poo balls
4 buckets of chopped produce
19 buckets of shredded leaves
23 buckets of shredded alfalfa hay
6 1/2 buckets of City Compost
plus 3 beers, 1 cup of molasses, spoiled milk, box of Honey Nut Cheerios, and 1 cup of blood meal.

This showed me that I had been using way more manure than needed to achieve 160*F for a few days with frequent turning.

Someone asked about horse manure with wood shavings. I quit using wood shavings as browns after the first year. They just didn't break down and I kept getting splinters from the MM. The manure I used is from dirt pens or from straw stalls. I think that if the wood shavings are incidental to the horse manure, the manure will provide enough nitrogen to break them down. I was actually using wood shavings as a major brown.


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