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dpack
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sgt.colon
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Mistress Rose
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sgt.colon
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sgt.colon
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dpack
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sgt.colon
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dpack
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sun is good, as is a bit of earth, compost heap or fresh dung ,
what do you do with a dead rat? ditto a pigs head that was lurking in the freezer for a couple of years. etc
you don't need a lot of fresh meat and bone but a bit really helps for full on activity
adding fresh greens needs a wait of a week or so in a very active summer tub
if you top up with a lot of blood fish bone wait a month at the least, for a handful a week is enough and it will get the microbes going
adding chook muck wait at least a month unless you also add lime but it is better to put chook muck in over winter.
full sun but not where you or the neighbours sit and relax
a loose fitting lid helps with the smell and lets air in
if you are getting it right it will stink when active and it will need diluting.
overfeeding plants with too strong a feed can suck water from roots by reverse osmosis
for most things dilute until it looks like carling lager as guiness will killem
even pumpkins need it diluting to yorkshire tea colour no milk
with my mixture , which is pretty intense even if fermented out and matured, i tend to go for one to ten dilution and apply it sparingly after watering or lots of rain.
variety is good in mixture, owt from dock roots to dead rats will add something useful
by weight 10 times plant material to one unit if animal origin is a fair bet, herbivore dung counts as plant, chook dung counts as animal
plant needs less fermenting time than animal so time animal additions for when there is enough time before you need feed.
a strong feed on dry soil is as good as agent orange, used well it is awesome.
i have considered trying a solar pond air pump but chances are that might not favour the right microflora
ps if it stinks you are probably getting it right, wait until you can get near it without gagging, dilute sensibly and all will be well
mixture is ace and it gets rid of many weeds etc that cant be composted , couch grass springs to mind but so do docks, crab shells and bones
pps it is polite to feed the comfrey patch, i usually put it downhill of the compost heap so it gets run off which seems a fair deal. beware the hairy stems some folk come up in quite a rash |
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dpack
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sgt.colon
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dpack
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sgt.colon
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