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This guy has a great gardening channel and I recommend subscribing.
We used to keep a “compost” pile in the chicken coop. Hard wire cloth surrounding a dirt pile, we threw in any table scraps (chicken safe) and they picked out what they wanted, the rest, just sat there, and got covered with leaves and dirt. It wasn’t really a compost pile, more of just a scrap pile, filled with mainly rejects
wow! thats a lot of compostSounds like my evolution, too. Eventually, I just turned the whole chicken run into a compost in place pile. The advantage is that it takes little effort on my part and the chickens love it. After the chickens ate all the grass in the chicken run and scratched everything down to the bare dirt, I had to find a solution to a muddy mess. So I started dumping in wood chips, then grass clippings, then leaves, ..... Now my chicken run litter is about 18 inches deep. I just started harvesting some of the chicken run compost after 1 year and the bottom layers are like black gold. Maybe 1 year seems like a long time to wait to make compost, but it was minimal effort for me with no turning piles.
My only problem now is that I have so much chicken run compost, that I am trying to decided how to use it all and/or store some for next year. I have already filled my raised beds with 18 cubic feet of compost (18 bags equivalent) from the chicken run and have barely used the compost in the chicken run still sitting there.
I should have added that I have plenty of greens in there too. I use straight leaves in areas that are non-plant areas, like walkways and borders. The squash plants run all the way out to the fence, over the leaves. Nice clean plants, nice clean squash.When you have just browns, like leaves, you need some greens to start the decaying. Greens are the part that starts the breakdown. In fall, if you have just leaves, hit some Starbucks for free coffee grounds (which look brown, but are "greens" in compost).
I bought a shredder this summer. I will probably try shredding leaves if they are dry enough.
When you have just browns, like leaves, you need some greens to start the decaying. Greens are the part that starts the breakdown. In fall, if you have just leaves, hit some Starbucks for free coffee grounds (which look brown, but are "greens" in compost).
It's a DR from TCS. I've used the chipper part twice and been VERY happy. I haven't tried it for shredding yet. I wanted the chipper enough to buy it for that ($1000, gulp), so if the shredder is only ok, that's fine by me. I can use all the wood chips I can make, and I have and endless supply of stuff to chip up.I would be interested in hearing what kind of shredder you bought and how well you like it.