r/composting

The gap between the bin and the mixture is this time large enough to stick your hand in. Normally it's mutch smaller.

Love this. Their "gentle process" takes 30 days, though. I can't imagine those wildflowers are still around at the end of it!

When I go, just throw me in the pile.

Well, someone else's pile. Mine is suburban appropriate and I'd offend the olfactories.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/human-composting-facility-maryland-first-on-east-coast/71364484

Is there a better use for this before I tear it and chuck it in the compost? Feels like it could be good for something..

I operate a 3 bin compost system. Tumbler until full > dalek 1 > invert into dalek 2 > sieve and use, return chunks to tumbler. I put everything I can get my hands on into the system. Tumbler and dalek 1 are usually pretty hot. Dalek 2 stays cool.

I just went out to put some food waste into the tumbler and thought I would check on the other bins. The photos are of dalek 2.

I’m guessing that this is all beneficial, but why are there so many all of a sudden? I’ve always had worms in the daleks but I’ve never seen this many.

I noticed lots of light brown egg looking things (shown in the last picture). Are these anything to do with the worms?

Some worms are really big and lots of medium and smaller size. I keep going between nightcrawlers and Asian jumping worms.
Clay is very dark but these are their excrements, are these the coffee grounds that people talk about with jumping worms?

Thanks for the advice, I took this after throwing some scraps down so it took it back down a few degrees but we are cooking w piss!

Built a simple tower and made a lasagna with the chicken coop clean out and several buckets of dead headed roses from my aunt.

Hello !

Would you say the compost on pics 1 and 2 is finished ? ( ready for usage ?)

Also, would you recommend getting a wood chipper ?

Untill now the main plan for getting rid of branches and wood after prunning was burning it, but i am personaly not a fan of it. Even tho it is done in the barrell and the end result is a bunch of biochar which is good and can be usefull. Ash might be good for flowers and i know i can charge the biochar, but considering the amounts we have , chopping it up and using it as browns sounds better...

3rd and 4th pics, the whole compost area, which is split in half. It was heavy rain few days ago , thats why there is water ( i should add drainage hole ).

It takes a very long time, 1-1.5 days since ive had scattered clouds, but i can make biochar using an off the shelf solar oven. This batch isnt done yet but it should be in a few hours. My next project is to build a larger oven with bugger mirrors to get hotter temps and make more biochar faster

How am I doing so far?

#1-- leftover corn stalks and pine needles

#2-- Grass clippings

#3-- newspaper and kitchen scraps

#4-- horse manure

Doodles are always fast and easy!

Urban development service workers using dead dog bodies as fertilizer.

Tens of thousands of these drop in my yard every year and I have a vacuum mulcher. After sucking them up and peeing on them compost always gets to cooking and they will break down in a matter of 4-5 days. Did a round of mulching them 3 days ago and they are already almost fully broken down and a healthy level of mycelium form my wine caps is consuming them as well