Hot composting with chicken bedding and garden waste

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Ok, you folks had me going on the golden stuff. My mind was not catching up to your lingo. Liquid nitrogen. Wonderful addition to many gardening ventures. Hay bale gardening: golden stuff required, or any similar product which is high nitrogen. Store bought ammonia, unscented. Straight out of the bag urea, or a high N fertilizer. Alfalfa pellets. Golden stuff preferred as it is free. Also reported to repel raccoons and other garden pests. Female gardeners may benefit from the use of an empty quart sized yogurt container.

Any knowledge about the N content of coffee grounds? I can get a decent supply from my church on a regular basis. Could probably collect same from many commercial places if I put the time into it. What about making manure tea out of straight chicken poo? A local chicken keeper hung a tarp under his chicken roosts and collects several buckets full of chicken poo/week which do not have any shavings mixed into them.

Thanks Vehve. Will check into your peasant cheese.
 
Ok, you all convinced me to try it so I started peeing in the compost bin yesterday. I'll not collect any in a bucket in the house since I'd prefer to remain married.


RichnSteph
 
I get very nasty looks already when I'm depositing straight into the bin, I'm afraid of even thinking what the reaction would be if I started storing the stuff inside
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Hehe! I only do so at night when I put the chickens up and in the morning while getting the chickens fed and awake so no one really sees me out there.


RichnSteph
 
Yeah, I'm not waiving at any neighbors while doing it either, but the better half seems to find it a bit inappropriate anyway. But, it's a good way to add moisture, nitrogen and heat to the pile, so I keep doing it when needed. Lately my problem has been too much nitrogen though, so I haven't been making deposits in a while. After we moved over to hemp and a kitty litter scoop, the amount of bedding has decreased dramatically.
 
Quick question. Does fruit pulp count as nitrogen or carbon? I'd guess nitrogen. I'm asking because a place near us makes fresh fruit smoothies and has posted online that they have used fruit pulp that they are willing to give away if someone will just come pick it up. I'm thinking of getting a 100lbs or so and bringing it home for the composter.


RichnSteph
 
Aaah - the yellow stuff, free for the taking! My mother referred to it as her Secret Ingredient when she emptied her potty each morning (we had an outhouse, actually a dunny, in our house in Australia).
These days I use the SI just as it comes for my new straw bales to season them in the early spring, and also occasionally pour it down the gaps to accelerate my hugelkultur mound. At the community garden I have to be a bit more circumspect so I add 1 oz liquid kelp to disguise the color (sneaky, eh?).
I use only on my own plot - I don't put it on the communal compost heaps at the community garden. I haven't been using the neat stuff on the compost at home because I don't think the heaps here need it either.
For general garden fertilization use, the (US) 1 gallon (128 fluid ounce) milk jug is great. The dilution ratio is 20:1, water to SI. Use 120 oz water, 6 oz SI, the obligatory 1 oz liquid kelp and Bob's your uncle! Easy! (I keep a measuring cup in the bathroom.)
 

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