Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

You could do a barber shop post perforation of the barrel and underneath you want to place something to capture the moisture because this a compost tea and it is like and organic miracle grow. You can bottle it and save it for next summer. The stuff can be diluted down to a 50/50 water to tea and used to control fungus on roses and shrubs. So and easy capture system is a wheel barrel for now and later you can use your imagination and figure some thing else out.
jeff

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From: James <jmarconnet@gmail.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:35 PM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Looking for some "serious" compost tumbler operators


 
My fluffed up compost settled almost immediately My latest thinking is that as the shredded leaves in my tumbler have shrunk down to about half their original volume, the water in my tumbler has stayed about the same total amount, doubling the moisture content. Thus reducing the air circulation within the tumbler and also the water conducting any heat generated by the bacteria quickly to the tumbler exterior and then to the surrounding air, slowing the composting process and dropping the core temperature dramatically this winter.

I'm wondering how to remove the excess moisture without adding anything like shredded newspaper - which would logically start my 14 day composting clock back at zero.

Jim

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