Poop and Compost

[SC_Hugh]

Nice, most of you have it going on already

For the newbie, check out: http://www.mrwmd.org/pdf/MRWMD-Composting-Home-Composting-Brochure.pdf

I am going outside now to build another compost pile...

 

[jrosto]

Here is my favorite composting book. Steve Solomon's "Organic Gardener's Composting" will take all the mystery out of composting for you.

 

[cluckinthecity]

Yes...Steve Solomon's book is excellent.

I hope all of you realize, those of us still without chickens pay a minimum of $3.50 a bag for chicken poop to add to our compost piles. Plus time and travel expense.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

Quote:
I realize with just 4 bantam chickens, I didn't have enough poop. September we let 4 more hens hatch. In June, one more hatched. With the addition of these 4 newbies, now I'm up to 13:


Next spring, I'm puttin in beans! I loouuurrve beans. Pole beans, romans.

 

[Honeysucklefeathers]

Here are a few of the results of my compost

 

[Honeysucklefeathers]

Oh, disregard the poison ivy

It likes poop too

 

[sharol]

Quote:

I love the peonies.

 

[typnslow]

Thanks for the great info and resources.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

dianaherrin, I love the way your peonies and iris watch themselves in the water! Some people keep some poison ivy for the birds, in a Martha Stewart magazine years ago it was part of a "wild" photo spread. It can be really pretty, with its white beady berries and maroon stems.

 

[Honeysucklefeathers]

6chickens in St. Charles :

dianaherrin, I love the way your peonies and iris watch themselves in the water! Some people keep some poison ivy for the birds, in a Martha Stewart magazine years ago it was part of a "wild" photo spread. It can be really pretty, with its white beady berries and maroon stems.

Good to know! That's gonna be my excuse for not gettin it out