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Posted by chuckie on October 13, 2008, 8:17 am
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> > Your compost pile should work in sun or shade. =A0 =A0A compost pile (a=
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> > least 1 cubic yard) should stay moist inside for days, although the
> > edges will dry out. =A0I'd think your pile may be too small if you need
> > to water it daily, else you are in an arid region. =A0Guidelines sugges=
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> > locating your compost pile near the garden, convenient location, and
> > out-of-sight. =A0Your bin is working fine if it is warm 12" inside it. =
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> > use rabbit fencing shaped into a 4' rings. =A0I planted rose-of-sharon
> > around the cylinders to keep the bins somewhat hidden. =A0 They get
> > mostly shade, but good ventilation. =A0 If you have more than one bin,
> > you can experiment to see which location works best. =A0Any plants
> > growing near a compost bin usually grow like weeds!
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> Yes, indeed the weeds that grow near the compost pile grow like monsters.
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> But I have the problem of the open compost piles - drying out.
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> Placing it in big plastic compost bins (they look like post office
> letterboxes with the bottom cut out) ... that should speed up the compost
> process? The problem is that they will be exposed to full sun. It gets ve=
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> hot here in Summer - 42C+ or 130F? And the compost worms don't survive. B=
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> it should all still work?
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> I relocated the compost worm section to another shady but smaller part of
> the garden.
My Compost has always been open although I have a rather large setup,
It decomposes rather quickly, and I do not turn it often because of
the large size makes it rather backbreaking and I try to turn it with
a loader when I have one available.
My thought on compost is to just let it go mostly and it will break
down, I add nitrogen and lime from time to time but other than that I
let the natural thing happen and I end up with a pretty balanced
compost.
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