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Jaeger
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: agar]
#5341995 - 02/26/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I agree with her!!!
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342035 - 02/26/06 05:48 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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anarchist0999 said: thanks for this, seems easy enough.
one thing id like to know is: where do you guys go for poop? random stables & ranches? feed stores? that would prolly be the hardest to acquire for me.
I feel like the most difficult item to get would be the 55 gallon drum. I don't even know where to start looking for something like that. Agar says the surplus supply stores.. but I'm not exactly sure what that is or how to find any in my area.
The horse poo you just get from people with horses. Ask them if you can get some poop from their field for your garden or something.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: Jaeger]
#5342047 - 02/26/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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From the sun heating it, would using a black barrel help speed up the process? Or would it have any kind of negative effect?
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agar
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#5342113 - 02/26/06 06:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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For plastic drums.
FIRST, use your local PHONE BOOK. Call around & check. Some places may not have them. But, may know WHO DOES.
Also, check your local http://www.craigslist.org/
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#5342231 - 02/26/06 06:42 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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tiny_rabid_birds said: The horse poo you just get from people with horses. Ask them if you can get some poop from their field for your garden or something.
yeah um, i dont exactly know anyone with horses.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342246 - 02/26/06 06:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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anarchist0999 said:
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tiny_rabid_birds said: The horse poo you just get from people with horses. Ask them if you can get some poop from their field for your garden or something.
yeah um, i dont exactly know anyone with horses.
I bet your phone book does.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342263 - 02/26/06 06:49 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Look in your local phone book for horse stables, or horse riding / boarding. They (most often) give h/poo away FREE, by the pick up truck load full.
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A0999
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342284 - 02/26/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Snaggletooth
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: agar]
#5342287 - 02/26/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I found my lifetime supply of FREE hpoo on craigslist 
Just have not took advantage of it yet.
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agar
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342305 - 02/26/06 06:55 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Used plastic drums run about $20 each. Most often found at surplus type stores.
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A0999
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: agar]
#5342312 - 02/26/06 06:57 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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agar said: Look in your local phone book for horse stables, or horse riding / boarding. They (most often) give h/poo away FREE, by the pick up truck load full.
thankyou thats more helpfull. allthough i dont think i need a truckload, and il prolly have to drive atleast an hour for anyplace like that.
so now, can you give some info on drying/leeching ect...
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342334 - 02/26/06 07:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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To get properly aged/leached poop, either select nuggets that are dried, light in color, or odorless, or spread fresh poo on a tarp and let it sit outside through a couple of rainfalls, then dry in the sun.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: A0999]
#5342349 - 02/26/06 07:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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>>>so now, can you give some info on drying/leeching ect...<<<
I dump a truckload out on a concrete pad, spray it with a water hose, then let the sun do the drying.
Others scale & methods of leeching & drying will vary.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5344326 - 02/27/06 06:58 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Snaggletooth said: I found my lifetime supply of FREE hpoo on craigslist 
Just have not took advantage of it yet.
i looked on craigslist last night and actually found a place giving away horse poopie by the large sack load! thanks for the idea.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: agar]
#5346329 - 02/27/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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agar said:
I dump a truckload out on a concrete pad, spray it with a water hose, then let the sun do the drying.
Others scale & methods of leeching & drying will vary.
So the poo should be leaching before composting???
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: FGL]
#5346366 - 02/27/06 05:45 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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FGL said:
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agar said:
I dump a truckload out on a concrete pad, spray it with a water hose, then let the sun do the drying.
Others scale & methods of leeching & drying will vary.
So the poo should be leaching before composting???
You can use well weathered & dryed h/poo as substrate. Without composting it.
This thread is a way to make compost, using horse or cow manure. You can compost fresh manure that smells of shit & urine. you cannot use fresh h/poo or C/poo as substrate. Unless it is well leached, then dried first.
Straight up, weather aged h/poo, works.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: agar]
#5346391 - 02/27/06 05:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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So the composting tek you are explaining here,as any composting process, can use both as an ingredient(leached and fresh), isnt it?
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: FGL]
#5346427 - 02/27/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The composting process can use either fresh, or aged manure. (fiber & nitrogen source)
Fresh, smelly manure is actualy better to start composting with. It's alive with microbes.
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: agar]
#5346487 - 02/27/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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would be a good idea to add some verm to the process?
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Re: Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates [Re: FGL]
#5346510 - 02/27/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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If you have a good healthy fiber mixture, there is no need for Verm.
As it composts, keep an eye on it - towards the end of the process.
Don't let it compost into DIRT like substance.
The longer you let it compost, the more FIBER is broken down.
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