RE: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-27 Thread Peggy
I've heard it called Pees on Earth Peggy Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost Hello John An Uncle of mine used to just tell me to piss on it!!! First I thought he was just kidding...but you know what, he's right too. Late... Definitely he's right - more politely aka HCA (Household

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Keith Addison
. - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:31 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost Hi, To speed up the decomposition, you have to add some water and turn the material once a day to introduce oxygen

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Guag Meister
Hi Keith and All ; Very interesting thread. I have 225 ht small wood trees that need to be cleared and composted. Will this type of material be finished in 28 days? Wood chippers are not available here and I am building my own. What size should the wood chips be (I assume this is a tradeoff

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-26 Thread John P. Gochoco
was just kidding...but you know what, he's right too. Late... From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:31:59 +0900 Hi, To speed up the decomposition, you have to add

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Keith and All ; Very interesting thread. I have 225 ht small wood trees that need to be cleared and composted. Will this type of material be finished in 28 days? It depends how you do it. It could be. It depends what you want too. Along with many others, Jean Pain uses such material

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Guag Meister
Hi Keith and All ; Along with many others, Jean Pain uses such material in his system, but he wants it to stay hot all year, not just for a month. Yes I studied the web page cited and just wondered if it could be sped up from the 18 months he states. I want large amounts of compost from

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread fox mulder
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Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread subramanian D.V
Friends, I see so many of you are interested in composting for gardens and small farms. There is a method to expedite the decomposition called vermi-composting -- kind of outsourcing the job to qualified worms --. Here's a local newspaper article on that. In fact I 've read somewhere else

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Keith and All ; Along with many others, Jean Pain uses such material in his system, but he wants it to stay hot all year, not just for a month. Yes I studied the web page cited and just wondered if it could be sped up from the 18 months he states. Certainly it can, but that suited

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Keith Addison
Lots about vermicomposting here: http://journeytoforever.org/compost_worm.html Vermicomposting http://journeytoforever.org/compost_wormlink.html Vermicomposting resources It won't expedite the decomposition, not if that means speed it up. It's not the same as composting, though I'd see the

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

2004-11-26 Thread Keith Addison
Common-Sense Compost Making -- by the Quick Return Method by Maye E. Bruce, Faber Faber, London, 1946 In the 1930s and 40s, Maye Bruce developed a different way of composting to complement the Indore composting system developed by Sir Albert Howard and the complicated Bio-Dynamic composting

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-25 Thread Rick Littrell
Another suggestion. If you are composting woody plants or tree trimmings add some ammonium nitrate or urea fertilizer. The micro organisms that break down this material take up a lot of nitrogen so if you increase the available nitrogen you can speed up the process. Also, if you mulch

RE: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-24 Thread pan ruti
Hello TIM You can accelerate by several biological methods which are weel documented as report in TV GLOBO excellent report and we have beeen studing simple water extraction process as well as inoculam recirculation process. Full DETAIL WE CAN UPLOAD AND SENT FOR ANY ONE

RE: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-24 Thread pan ruti
Hello TIM You can accelerate by several biological methods which are weel documented as report in TV GLOBO excellent report and we have beeen studing simple water extraction process as well as inoculam recirculation process. Full DETAIL WE CAN UPLOAD AND SENT FOR ANY ONE

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-24 Thread Keith Addison
I'd just finished proofreading a book I scanned for our Small Farms Library, ready for uploading, all about, guess what, gardening and compost, downloaded my email while sorting out some loose ends, and behold, a post from you called Gardening and Compost! LOL! One of us must be doing

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-24 Thread Luishpm
Hi, To speed up the decomposition, you have to add some water and turn the material once a day to introduce oxygen. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-24 Thread Keith Addison
To speed up the decomposition, you have to add some water and turn the material once a day to introduce oxygen. Certainly no need to turn once a day, if ever. It needs water, yes, but not too much water or it will go anaerobic, very difficult to recover - that's probably the most common

RE: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-23 Thread Peggy
a cow chewing its cud. Peggy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Ferguson Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost Hello Robert, I to have the same problem but I have

RE: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-22 Thread Tim Ferguson
Hello Robert, I to have the same problem but I have more plant material than animal manure to compost. I have two springs and creeks on the property with good head flow and have been pondering constructing something of a grist mill to grind the corn stalks etc prior to composting. Something

Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost

2004-11-22 Thread Cyrus Mistry
A few pints of urine will get it going!! Saw this on a nature program once - Original Message - From: robert luis rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:30 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost Hello everyone! Last week my family