I am working on more Special Mix for this and next year. I will be selling it by the Full Tractor Scoop. Thanks!!
Been working on it for a while be really nice by spring Garden Time! http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/fundamentals/needs_temperature.htm
Date(s): July 29, 2022. Album by Mark H.. 1 - 63 of 63 Total. 720 Visits.
1 Now cooking at 110 Degrees which is prefect. Added 250 Gals of water to it and flipped it again. Breaking down nice.
2 This is what goes into the Compost. $350.00 a ton this year! Lot of Tons in there so far!
3 Took the 2 piles and made one out of them.
4 These both are 8 ft Tall and 16+ ft across. Breaking down nice in 2 piles now. Mixed 25 gals of Bunny Manure Tea plus 50 lbs. of Bunny manure and mixed it all up. Helps with the Microbes.
5 Decided to stack it 8 ft tall and around 17 ft across the bottom. Did it in 2 piles so I could still mix it up good over and over.
6 2nd big pile. Just need more Rain to Compost it faster!!
7 Before adding the Runway Manure and Compost/Topsoil Mix.
8 Cleaned out the Hay Barn side for the first time in about 15 years. Slowly adding Old broke down Barn Runway Manure to the pile.
9 Added about 15 yards of compost Topsoil on top to mix in.
10 Mixed it up into a row so I could flip it over and over every 5 or so days.
11 This is the 15 yards of Compost Topsoil I added to the Hay stuff from the Barn Floor.
12 After a few turnings it is looking good. Stays a 140/160 degrees good for killing weed seeds and other stuff that makes the smell till composted.
13 Looks a lot better than when I started. Just before putting it in 2 big piles.
14 Took th2 Big Piles and turned them into 4 moved and mixed.
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17 4 new piles to get hot and break down more.
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20 Our Strawberries just getting ready again.
21 Raspberries grown in the Compost I make plus Top-Dressing Bunny Poop every year.
22 One of our 8 ft long of 3 Strawberry Raised Beds of Compost only. Been growing out of them for several years now. Added Bunny Poop Tea this year and it helped bigtime.
23 Squash popping up outside the fence.
24 Can't get thru the Gate now the Squash Garden exploded. I made this one this year with my Compost I sell. I Wanted a test and it passed!
25 Been growing in this Garden for 25 Years only using Cow Compost and Bunny Poop nothing else.
26 Checked the Temps in the High part of the Composting Pile. Nice!
27 Temps Low in the Composting Pile before turning it again.
28 The 2 New Big Piles with Dents on the top to hold a bunch of Soaking Water. Still holding 15 Yards per Pile times two 30 yds.
29 Cows love to play "King of the Mountain" and help break it down more!
30 Now in one Pile till Sold or Spring. Still works out to about 30 yards 8 ft high 20 ft wide in a cone shape.
31 Nice 30+ Yard pile of future Compost!
32 Added another 59 Yards in 2 new long flat piles.
33 The Long Piles are to have 25% more Compost Material added.
34 My 4044M John Deere sure works good for doing this kind of stuff.
35 I had added 5 Tractor Scoops of Chicken Manure Bedding Mix to the pile. Then mixed it all in. I will add 2-1,000+lbs hay bales on top.
36 Nice Topsoil from the Feed Pasture to make the Soil Compost Mix.
37 Some of our Cows in the background!
38 Added 5 Tractor Scoops (1+ Yrd) of Chicken Poop/Bedding Mix to the 30 yards.
39 Boy Mother Nature and a Cow sure can mix it up good!
40 Got 4 3x5x6 ft Big Bales of Sweet Grass Ground Cover.
41 Put 2 Bales per 30 yards of soil to mix in.
42 Busted up the Bales so I could put Soil over them.
43 First Mix need to add a bunch of water to the piles. Let it rain/snow some on them then start the turning.
44 Finished adding 4 Yards of Composted Soil over the top. Ready to cook put 1,000 gallons of water in the middle with a trench on top first.
45 Pile is 5 ft tall now and 12 x 30 ft around the bottom.
46 No sooner was I finished it snowed on the piles.
47 Lots of Cow Poop and walked on Hay to put into a new pile to compost.
48 Pasture on 2/22/23 starting the thaw nice and the piles warming up.
49 Spring Thaw letting start turning it again.
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51 New pile bladed off the Pasture from feeding over the winter. It will break down fast. I have around 16 yards of it so far.
52 22 Yards of Compost being turned for this year.
53 Fresh Pile of this winter's Cow Poop and Hay Mix.
54 Put the piles into a 5 ft high row to compost faster. Easier to turn with the tractor too.
55 One Long Row of Composting Soil.
56 2 Rows I am turning ready for Gardens. Making a 20 x 30 foot out of some for us too.
57 Lot of tractor work to get it looking like this.
58 Now in 10-35 Soop Piles to keep better track of what is left.
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61 Finished Product should all be gone quick. Been about a year working up this year's Compost/Soil Mix.
62 Sold and waiting to be picked up.
63 Just about all I have left about 90 tractor scoops.
