Pacific Northwest Gardening: So hows your compost this spring?, 1 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
I use a 3 bin system and it is getting over used and I need a bigger one. I have over 3 yards in each bin. I use chipper shredder, leaf vacuum, lawn broom behind my garden tractor, and my pride and joy is the debris loader. I chip everything at least twice during the composting process. Especially the pine needles which are about 1/2 of the volume of the compost material. With the debris loader I suck up the needles, cones and blow them into my trailer. Then I vacuum out the trailer for a second time into the compost bin. It will be layered in the summer with grass clippings and the fall and spring with cow manure or Milorganite. I let it cook for at least 3 months in the summer and 6 or more months in the winter and spring. This is where my slave (DW) piles up the clean up and I chip and shred.

This message was edited Apr 15, 2008 9:23 PM