I have been offered access to a plentiful supply of fresh chicken manure. Would this make a good compost accelerant and get things hot enough in my daleks for me to compost perennial weed roots, such as bindweed and couch, successfully? I have a plentiful supply of these too ;D so would like to try and put them to good use.
I would use it as an accelerant along with mown grass which manages to get everything really hot - you will need some weeds to mix in for the mix to be right! Aren't you lucky! It is pretty potent stuff!
O B
;D
Quotesuch as bindweed and couch,
I agree to your initial question i.e. chicken manure as an accelerant but I would never put couch & bindweed in a compost heap.
Think about it; if one little bit does not decompose, and you add the resulting compost to your plot,these bits would take off, particularly; when you consider they will then be in 'fertile soil' so you have defeated your purpose of getting rid of it in the first place.
A big NO from me!
drown the roots in a large bucket, etc for a month or two the add the dead plant material to your heaps.
You shouldn't need an accelerant for grass clippings or anything else for that matter.
If I had access to large quantities of fresh chicken manure I would stack it in Moriati bags by itself and let it cook. Then you have a base ingredient to use how you fancy with many different uses.
Put the couch grass in a net before drowning in your tub. This was suggested on here by someone and I think it's a very good tip.
QuoteMoriati bags
Worked in the building trade all my working life and didn't know thats what you called that type of bag.
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Quote from: Tee Gee on May 15, 2009, 15:11:52
QuoteMoriati bags
Worked in the building trade all my working life and didn't know thats what you called that type of bag.
The proper name is FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers) they are also known as 4 loop bags, aggregate sacks, big bags, builder bags, tote bags, PP bags, polypropylene bags, tonne bags and dumpy bags amongst other things.
The tern moriati bag seems to be unique to Eristic.
OOps - Didn't see what you were going to compost - I take all my bindweed root down to the tip ( luckily I don't have couch grass!)
Eristic
I know that given ideal conditions you don't need an accelerant - but if you have a hot compost heap which is working well - there is no problem with just mixing in the chicken poo - rather than have a heap of rotted down chicken poo which will need mixing in with the other general compost!
O B
;D
Granted there is no problem mixing the chicken phew with the raw compost but you are missing a trick. The composted chicken manure is a valuable resource, it will be ready for use far quicker than composted grass and compost with added manure may not be ideal for some plants or situations.