LOW BUDGET COMPOSTING

I'm one of those kids that grew up playing in dirt. Tis how i learned to avoid certain sandy areas cats loved to shit in lmao. Later in life after being surrounded by family members who have righteously green thumbs i got really into trying to create super nice "smelling soils" i was enthralled with that rich fermented soil smell. So i used to get super jealous of these "trust fund kids" up this way that have everything provided for them etc etc. Took me awhile to realize its ok to be poor. Lifes what ya make it and so aint our gardens. Ive been trying to keep soils cooking, amendments stockpiled etc but the community i live in is undergoing gentrification from outofstate influences that make longterm stable housing tougher and tougher to find unless you are a refugee. Then they buy you a new vehicle and pay your rent for you......low income preexisting residents here get shit......period. So i have been trying to keep my stocks going well but have struggled. Upwards and onwards.....im gonna share everything i learn this semester as i take a vermicompost master course here in this thread.....please feel free to post yours here..all i ask is it be from an eco friendly or economical source. Heres my first share....

Mussel shell contains calcium carbonate (from 95 per cent to 99 per cent of the shell weight) and small amounts of nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium, all of which are beneficial to the soil and plant life.


Im trying to utlilize my tablescraps.....neighbors kids urine and local worm vermicompost to get things rolling.

all ya need is room man, the leaves are free, the grass is free.
past that it's barely anything.
in fact you could very very easily grow in JUST that and aeration.
assembled correctly of course.
but yea, any shell fish is gonna have that calcium in it, crab shell meal, oyster shell, shrimp meal, even insect meal, anything with a carapace or a hard exoskeleton
I don't like urine as a compost accelerator unless done so only once or twice, it does have a good amount of sodium in it, not to mention the ratio is more important than anything, done right and just an application of water and the pile is steaming in hours.
grass clippings is great for that, as well as cannabis leaves

VTMi'kmaq said:

.neighbors kids urine .

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side note... ummm...
how you go about getting the neighbor's kid's urine...??

Lmao my wife asked the himalyan family nextdoor if theyd mind collecting alil(they got 5 kids) for a jug or two in the soil.....they kindly obliged......soil dump




mindy says look theres something at the bottom.....lets dig it up.

Thx greaseman.....i love your knowledgebase.

VTMi'kmaq said:

Thx greaseman.....i love your knowledgebase.

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anytime my friend, anytime at all
cute pooch by the way
I LOVE dogs

VTMi'kmaq said:

Thx greaseman.....i love your knowledgebase.

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Hey, grease got me working with rabbit manure and I found it on craigslist for free!
On the left is my 2x leaf compost piles. The one under the blue tarp is almost ready, so I have the black composter as a starter bin. After the stuff under the tarp is done, I will transfer the black bin over.
On the right is my worm bin. The very left stall is spent soil and coco coir and the 3bins to the right of it are filled with rabbit manure and I am starting to get a nice worm population in there now also, finally! I had the bins set up since april and I have been patiently waiting for the worms to migrate.

You should consider growing dynamic accumulator's like comfrey, borage, yarrow, nettles, etc. to add to your compost. These will mine nutrients out of your soil and release them when composted.

You can forage for some of these plants but it is nice to have some closeby that you can chop occasionally and make a new layer on your compost.