Today we complete the compost pile that has been many weeks in the making. Today we topped it off with a truckload of sheep/goat manure from a nearby source. We layered the manure with cut alfalfa and wet each layer. This is the last episode of building this pile for this year. We will let it over-winter and tear it apart in the spring and then put it back together for another round of decomposition. The thermometer below shows that our pile is a little carbon rich and not achieving the higher temperatures it would if it had proportionally more nitrogen (manure). This is a good sized pile of compost, we hope to employ a front-end loader on a tractor to mix it or else we will do it with a shovel. It will likely be ready for application by our main planting time next May…
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