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Help with carbon options please
Help please! We have a compost tumbler that we have recently purchased to share with our landlords. We are each adding food scraps (4 adults+1 toddler worth) and it's getting stinky. Despite my best efforts (breaking and cutting up dry twigs to add etc) it is showing all signs of being too high in nitrogen. I don't have any dry leaves stored as it's our first gardening year. What do you add to your compost as carbon (other than Autumn leaves)? Many thanks Miriam
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Help please!
We have a compost tumbler that we have recently purchased to share with our landlords. We are each adding food scraps (4 adults+1 toddler worth) and it's getting stinky.
Despite my best efforts (breaking and cutting up dry twigs to add etc) it is showing all signs of being too high in nitrogen. I don't have any dry leaves stored as it's our first gardening year.
What do you add to your compost as carbon (other than Autumn leaves)?
Many thanks
Miriam
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Does anyone know what makes compost worms move into the vermiliquid part of the worm farm? I've noticed that sometimes a few seem to migrate there and other times there are none. Curious. : )
Hi Peter,
Viruses are mostly spread from a living, infected plant to another plant by either insect vectors (aphids, thrips etc.) or when we or other animals brush past an infected plant or trim it with secateurs and transfer the sap onto another plant. Usually if you compost a plant with a virus it is thought to be unlikely that you will spread a virus in that way. However diseases can survive the composting process sometimes, especially if the compost pile is not that hot or the compost is put back onto the garden before it is fully broken down. I recommend that you use the compost from the tomato plants on another part of your garden where tomatoes are not going to be grown, just to be safe. Good luck! Ingrid
Is it ok to put branches of tomato plants that have wilted through possible disease, into my compost , or will this simply spread any virus problem as I use the compost?
thanks Matt, will do
Hi Nicolas check out the industrial areas wharehouses often have stacks of unuseable or broken pallets that are only good for firewood or compost bins if they havnt put their old pallits on the verge for people to take then stop in and ask if they have any
anyone knows where can I get used pallets for low price or free? I want to get my compost corner in better shape, but I would like to do it on a budget. thanks