Thread: Compost???

You can put it ( loose ) in the Council's garden recycling bin or do what I do and keep some chooks and put it in their run. They turn it into a valuable compost.


Peter.

Don,
Doing a search for "compost" would help you find this link:
knee deep in s....
The search button is near the top of the page...... I'm sure there is also some info in FAQ about searching.....

Sorry mate, couldn't help myself

PS. I've asked an agronomist about the nitrogen thing and they recon it's a very real problem. That's why it's composted before being sold in commercial compost mixtures.

I've heard Uncle Toby buys it to put in their delicious range of muselis and breakfast bars

Do butchers still put it on their floors? Been awhile since I was in a butcher shop.

Wood dust and shavings of any type can safely be used on garden beds as a mulch. You have to remember that as wood products break down they deplete the nitrogen in the soil. So it is important that this is replaced. Aged chook poo (the Poo not the chook!) or simply Dynamic Lifter will do this when applied regularly.

Dynamic Lifter has been known to contain the odd chicken carcass - no joke!

Personally, I think they should balance the formula out with some cat....

Put cat phoo into Dynamic Lifter and it will dig itself into the garden..................a labor saving measure.

Doing a search for "compost" would help you find this link: knee deep in s.... The search button is near the top of the page...... I'm sure there is also some info in FAQ about searching..... Sorry mate, couldn't help myself

Hey, Mark - plain as the nose on my face. I don't recall this thread - that's why I never bothered searching.

In the meantime - go on being a wise-ass - doesn't bother me! As it says to the left, I'm still learning.

DPB,

Try

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ight=knee+deep

- Wood Borer

I'd watch putting MDF and treated pine (and maybe other man made timbers) sawdust into the garden or compost, especially if it is going on the veggie patch. A whole bunch of chemicals in these including arsinic in some types of treated pine.

Grunt is quite right. Of course. Why would'nt he be? He is a Victorian after all.
Certainly the dust and shavings from treated pine, MDF and other like man made products should not be included in the compost/mulch.
I assumed you already knew that. Silly me! Just proves you have to think down to the lowest common denominator when answering queries such as this.

Some wood contains toxins that can effect plants but composting will get rid of them. I sell my dust bag contents.

I wouldn't worry too much about the mdf dust as far a soil toxisity but I would be very concerned about treated timbers.

Mdf contains basicly glue residues which are not real nasty.

but treated timbers contain nasty heavy metals such as Arsenic.

Yeah.

good honest wood dust & some nitrogen rich preferably biologicaly active firtiliser (like chook XXXX) & you have a reasonable soil conditioner.

been ok im my garden.

I've just found a neighbour whose kids keep mice - she will take chips from the planer or router and a bit of saw dust by the garbage bag full. Actually - I suspect she wouldn't be too worried by the odd bit of arsenic but then I'd loose my disposal point!
Cheers