Is my compost ok to use for my plant?

BlueRidgeGrower

BlueRidgeGrower

Well-Known Member
I live in the mountains and am pretty secluded. So naturally I burn my burnables and compost all excess food. I have a compost barrel I throw all my food in there. I have an active population of black soldier fly larvae in the barrel that breaks down and processes all the compost. I feed the black soldier flys to my Bearded Dragon. But they only seem to stay at the top so would the soil below the layer of worms be a good choice for my plant.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

Well-Known Member
BlueRidgeGrower said:
I live in the mountains and am pretty secluded. So naturally I burn my burnables and compost all excess food. I have a compost barrel I throw all my food in there. I have an active population of black soldier fly larvae in the barrel that breaks down and processes all the compost. I feed the black soldier flys to my Bearded Dragon. But they only seem to stay at the top so would the soil below the layer of worms be a good choice for my plant.
Click to expand...
simple rule for compost is this, if you cannot decipher what the compost was originally?, then its good to use
if it smells like dirt, it's good to use.
also don't sweat filtering it too much.
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

Well-Known Member
If I have compost that has had all kinda nutes in it that have been composted or broken down...hell I even put some ff fruit and flower and jump start in my pile...along with every veggie...kind if dirt...poo....fish...every damn thing....i did mix some ff moonsine mix in with it just because it needed soil atm...but the one pile is done.....would it be a food idea to bag it like compost you would but at the store....I was gonna kinda screen ...not really screen but pick through anything that hasnt been broken down and add it to my new pile and get all the sticks that have fell into it.....i kinda wanna try to use it as a soil mix instead of compost.....honestly I could prob make a nute tea outa it....i would like to get it tested ...so I guess ill just try planing directly into it or buying peat moss and cut it with it and see what happens.....toss me and idea or a bone ir ask me a q so I can help you to answer my q please
 
Joomby

Joomby

Well-Known Member
GoRealUhGro said:
If I have compost that has had all kinda nutes in it that have been composted or broken down...hell I even put some ff fruit and flower and jump start in my pile...along with every veggie...kind if dirt...poo....fish...every damn thing....i did mix some ff moonsine mix in with it just because it needed soil atm...but the one pile is done.....would it be a food idea to bag it like compost you would but at the store....I was gonna kinda screen ...not really screen but pick through anything that hasnt been broken down and add it to my new pile and get all the sticks that have fell into it.....i kinda wanna try to use it as a soil mix instead of compost.....honestly I could prob make a nute tea outa it....i would like to get it tested ...so I guess ill just try planing directly into it or buying peat moss and cut it with it and see what happens.....toss me and idea or a bone ir ask me a q so I can help you to answer my q please
Click to expand...
I use a coarse aviary mesh and sift through my pile and add the fine shit into a different container and do exactly wha5 you said add all the leftovers back I'm to the compost bin so I'm not starting the whole compost cycle again and a bonus is you end up with nice fine Compost and no chunks of half decomposed stiff left in it. And as for black soldier fly larvae they are fucking awesome. You can load the bin up with scraps that worms won't normal break down .i added a whole watermelon to my bin one day and by the after noon they were finishing off the skin
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top