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Originally Posted by Raven
a nite crawler dragging a piece of dry dog food with its suction cup mouth over to it's burrow and thought about this for a long time.
Charles Darwin discovered that they actually can decide which end of a leaf to grab.... the pointed end of say a birch leaf thats [in the shape of an arrow head] and drag that into the ground into their tunnel or burrow and line the walls with it making the leaf curl into a tube.
so i always grind up the leaves for them to add organic matter to the soil. I think of leaves as free dollars not as a pain in the ass trash.
Swimmer:
you need to add some soil to your compost and a little
nitrogenous matter... some form of manure and the soil is to distribute the micro organisms found in the soil ...through out the pile, also you can buy a can of activator and sprinkle it into your pile .
A properly made compost pile should reach 180 degrees in the center in just one week.... then you turn it by pitchfork ,the outsides to the middle and wait another week till it reaches 180 degrees again . By then it should have decreased in size by 1/2 or your not doing it right.
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My brother in law used to make a compost heated green house at his school. He'd start in February, getting a huge jump on planting season. When planting time came he had tons of great compost. You could work in that green house in the coldest weather in shirt sleeves.
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