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Post by brownrexx on Dec 4, 2019 9:08:32 GMT -5
Temperatures have dropped where most of us live. Do you continue composting or adding to the compost pile in the winter? My compost is just a pile on the ground and I dump onto it all winter. I don't have weeds or grass to add but I get just as many vegetable peelings in the winter as I do in the winter. I cleaned the chicken coop last week and dumped the debris onto the pile and hubby turned the pile using his tractor that has a bucket. Manure tends to heat up a pile so it is probably still decomposing while the air temperature is in the 40's. This picture is from last year but I get lots of beautiful compost due to hubby doing this periodic turning. I am so glad that he likes to do that. DSC01742 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by paulf on Dec 4, 2019 9:28:57 GMT -5
I continue to load up the compost pile all winter and turn it over in the spring after it thaws a little.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 4, 2019 9:43:53 GMT -5
I did what Paulf does. Last house, composters were in the back corner of the year in a very sheltered spot. They just froze solid in winter, so no chance of turning. On the farm, I only had a small compost pile that was easily turned mechanically. The rest of the scraps were composted by the livestock and of course made it to the gardens eventually.
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Post by pondgardener on Dec 4, 2019 10:24:21 GMT -5
Usually by now, the compost pile is pretty well done for the winter. But vegetable peelings, coffee grounds and eggshells are still available daily. So there is always a few available coffee containers that I add accumulated kitchen scraps to and when those are full, they are dumped into 5 gallon buckets that are sealed until I start building back up the compost pile in the Spring.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Dec 4, 2019 13:51:16 GMT -5
brownrexx, Never mind the pictures of the great looking compost, need more tractor pictures!.No doubt that loader is one of the most handy items on the place. Of course there would be no way to tell I am a machinery nut. Have two garden tractors, small Kubota, and three big John Deere's.
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Post by paquebot on Dec 4, 2019 14:23:38 GMT -5
All scraps go into the tumbler year around. Hasn't frozen enough to prevent turning now and then. It was working a week or so ago as I could smell decomposing squirrels.
Martin
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Post by brownrexx on Dec 4, 2019 16:48:24 GMT -5
farmerjack41, you would get along well with my hubby. He has another tractor which I think is a Kubota because it is orange but it has a bucket as well as a backhoe on it. It was intended to go to our cabin and replace the bulldozer but it is still at home for some reason. Yes, bulldozer! Actually it is a Mitsubishi tracked loader and you would love that one. I even drive it once in a while. He also currently has 3 UTV's that he bought for resale and is working on them. One is a Kubota, another one is a Kawasaki and the third one is a John Deere Diesel. We have plenty of equipment around here!
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Post by reubent on Dec 4, 2019 22:40:55 GMT -5
No active composting going on but do have a barn load of old horse manure I need to deal with, probably do that about march when I'm fixing up the new garden area. As for equipment I have a kubota B6200 for tilling, a ford 3000 for pulling, been using that today to pull the old case track loader down to the shop to work on it, then a new holland skid steer. Oh and a troybuilt horse which I use mostly with the chipper/grinder. Since the kubota does better tilling. Then there's the antique troybuilt rototiller I haven't used yet. It was more for personal interest than practical use anyway. a 1941 model, all cast iron, even the gas tank is cast iron. Supposed to weigh over 400 lb. I may get that going next spring for cultivating. It has spring tines on it instead of digging tines. I used to see them in pictures and thought they looked really neat with their steel lug wheels and all cast build. Finally came across one that was convenient to get.
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