vermiculture and guinea pig bedding
redchrysanthemum
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redchrysanthemum
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Comments (6)I have an idea with the pine boughs...the area I plan on planting the blueberries is in a corner, there is a drain that runs through the back yards in the neighborhood that goes under this area along the back of my fence, the area needs fill badly...I was thinking of putting in a few concrete blocks against the neighbors fences in the corner and backfilling this area. What if I first filled the area with the pine boughs (cut into roughly 1' lengths) then filled with compost? The area would be higher towards the corner making a mound. Hope this makes sense. Kim...See MoreLasagna bedding, straw or hay and where to get it?
Comments (5)The most bestest thing you can use to build your Lasagna bed is those tree leaves that fall off the trees around your every year. They are free, abundant, and full of nutrients plants need to grow. Maybe, if tree leaves are not very readily available, hay could be used but that would be expensive if you have to buy it. Hay, since it is used as an animal food, is a relatively good nutrient source although not complete so other materials need to be added along with the hay. Straw would be a good, although fairly expensive, source of carbon, but since straw is the residue from harvesting grains there is very little of the nutrients in these plant stems because most all have been used for the seed heads, the grain. Since hay should be cut in the blossom stage, for the most nutrition, there should be very few "weed" seeds in hay, while straw not only will have some of the seeds left after threshing there is a good potential that "weeds" also have grown up and produced seeds, although I have seen very little of that when I did use straw. Since Oat straw is the most readily available around here all I have seen germinate and grow was some of the Oats, which would provide more of what I put down....See MoreAnyone use rabbit or guinea pig manure with success?
Comments (21)i started using rabbit poo several yrs ago.. now i have contacts that save it bagged up for me i pick up every couple weeks.. i use in in my composting,and just spading in the vegy garden in fall with shredded leaves..it breaks down by spring i find in my compost to make a slurry (fill buckets 1/2 full with poo and top off with water) let stand for couple days.. softens up the poo..then mix into my compost.. i do add some rock phosphate.. rabbit poo is a semi hot manure..so i find less ammonia given off ..the phosphate helps stabilize the nitrogen.. its a super manure for gardening.. i also make a rabbit manure tea.. fill 40 gal plastic garbage can with 5 gal of poo..fill up the container.. let sit for a couple weeks.. then use 1/2 strength on everything in my gardens.. veggies,tropicals..even my lawn...See MoreWill Carefresh bedding compost?
Comments (3)It probably will compost, the main question is how long it will take and if there are any bad chemicals used to treat that bedding that might make you not want to use the compost to grow food crops. My vote, compost it. Far better than putting it in the garbage. If you are worried about chemicals and food crops, then use the compost on ornamentals or your lawn. Chances are that any chemicals on the bedding safe enough not to hurt your pets probably wouldn't survive the composting process in a form that would be of much consequence but some people are quite strict about what is used on their veggie gardens. Here is a link that might be useful: My Bins...See Morebillr12
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