[CH] Composting

Nels Peterson family (npkp4jp@polarcomm.com)
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:58:32 -0600

Composting news:

I talked with our extension horticulturist today.

He indicated that Byrons idea would work ok -- about  a 3:1 ration of
sawdust to manure. You have to get the composting process to be past the
peak temperature and  start cooling  before you plant/transplant.     You
still might need to add some fertility during the growing season as compost
is mostly organic matter after the heating/decomposition is done.

There are some pretty good web sites up -- Chiwon and I did a Google search
as we were visiting on the phone.

Nels (the county agent) in ND