Third compost post pile is off to a great start. Recipe was equal parts by volume: grass clippings, weeds, straw, wood shavings and old failed compost, plus 2 handfuls of cottonseed meal per five 5-gallon buckets.
Piles 1 and 2 were both made from only grass clippings and old failed compost. Not enough nitrogen, and not enough pore spaces for oxygen to get into the pile.
Are the composts all the same size or are some piles larger / smaller?
Also what are using to track this so nicely? 👀
Just a spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc. I'd like to write an app for it some day.
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First pile was a little small but they usually end up between 40 and 60 5-gallon buckets. The bin is a cylinder made of half-inch hardware cloth sitting on top of a 40x48 pallet, and usually fills up to 4-5 feet high.
