Duck compost

[Musolff2015]

You can always do a test patch the first season and see what it looks like come spring. I don't know when you typically plant. Everyone's soil is different as well. Duck waste is not particularly harsh. It is safe to put on plants pretty much immediately, so if you put some in the ground in a small area and it doesn't break down as much as you'd like by the date you'd like you can just spread it around a bit more and it shouldn't harm anything.

Currently we have this 4' ish wide patch of overgrown brush and a few trees between my backyard and the neighbor behind my house so I have been tossing it in a pile in there. Best case scenario is it turns to dirt. Also a best case scenario is it kills all the brush we want gone anyway lol

I severely lack the green thumb gene in the family so I'm not a big "planter". I'm trying and would love to get a garden going so it's another bonus if the compost works. Biggest issue I have with just setting it in my backyard is once out of the coop (especially once i so spring cleaning after winter) it can get smelly and my surrounding neighbors are only on double lots around us. I dont want to bother them with the smell and I also have 2 small kids and a dog that I'd rather not have digging in a pile of duck waste bedding. The poop in the yard from free range at least dissipates in a couple days or with rain.

 

[PirateGirl]

Yeah. Where I’m at I think they actually require compost to be in a closed bin.