A garden is only as good as the ground that it's planted in. Discussion forum for the many ways to improve the soil where we plant our gardens.
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November 6, 2006 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NY
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Composting: make no bones about it?
Tomstrees posted a thread about using a lawn mower to shred leaves for compost.
Here is what I do: I bought a common garden shredder ($175.00) which can shred leaves and small branches. It does a good job of shredding leaf and branches, but not much more. I was able to find some tungsten carbide blades which were from an electric wood planer, which I machined to replace the carbon steel blades that came with the shredder. As you may know, tungsten carbide is extremely tough and the blades can hold a keen edge for a long time. Now I not only can shred leaves and branches, I can actually pulverize large bones, clamshells and any hard stuff. We eat a lot of sparerib, ox tail and corn-on-the-cob, the leftovers all go in the soil towards making better tomatoes and veggies. dcarch
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