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Still at 27C in the bin. We had a slightly colder night outside though, it was about 5C colder than the previous night.
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Quote: We live just a 1/4 mile from an old (shut down for years) brickyard, and have old bricks (not junk) all over the place. They keep the hens and dogs from getting too dig happy. I do feel sorry for anybody who tries to dig in some of the hen runs, let alone the dog pens!!
I do the two heap method, build one while I use/give away the old one in a round-about-way. The hens try to make the pile flat from about 5 foot in height at the start and spread it out to 20 foot across.
Scott
@RichnSteph Go work on your compost immediately!
It was 27C again this morning... darn thing doesn't want to heat up.
I'm thinking that the mites you have are mites (sorry, haven't found the official name yet), not spider mites. Spider mites don't like wet, but these mites do.I did, sort of. I went out to turn it and the way it looks just makes me want to give up. It's all clumpy and very very wet, the pine chips I stupidly put in there months ago are still there and not breaking down at all and there is a rather icky smell if I dig down to the very bottom. Once again the pile refuses to heat up but that might be due to a limited amount of green stuff in there and there are once again about a billion little black and red mites in there.
I'm trying to decide between building an open air 3-pallet bin that the chickens can get into, tossing it all out into the back of the property and starting over or keeping it like it is so that the BSF larvae will have plenty to eat on once the weather warms up and they come back.
Tell her if she doesn't save the sprout water you'll have to resort to that other 'golden' liquid......... but about 3 minutes before I was about to go pour it in the bin, Karin had tossed it. Now I have to wait a few days before I get enough of it again. It seemed like it would have worked nicely too, it was starting to build up alcohol judging by the smell.