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RE: [compost_tea] ComposTumbler



Dear Dr. E.:

You comment that, "even if you pile OM 40 feet high, it will, eventually, 
turn into compost as the organisms finally form structure and let oxygen 
move into the middle of the pile."

You've given me hope for home composting.  So even if folks don't turn 
their piles and the piles go anaerobic, IF they are allowed to sit long 
enough, they will become aerobic again and good compost can be harvested.

Paulette

-----Original Message-----
From:	soilfoodweb@aol.com [SMTP:soilfoodweb@aol.com]
Sent:	Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:04 AM
To:	compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Re: [compost_tea] ComposTumbler

Time versus money.  If you have patience, and make sure the organic matter
returns to aerobic conditions as soon as possible, you can make good 
compost out
of almost anything.  Even if you pile OM 40 feet high, it will, eventually, 
turn into compost as the organisms finally form structure and let oxygen 
move
into the middle of the pile.

It's when we try to speed things along, and make compost in 6 weeks that we 
get into all the craziness of turning, and starting mix, and pile height.

Thank you for the observations on your old tumbler!

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out 
well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things 
turn out."   --  Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic

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