If you can't get the timber to hold then make it as a cow manure compost above ground. The remedies are held much better in this form and Earth energy is collected in the manure rather than the opposite process when it is buried below ground level. What else you put with it should be to meet the needs of the environment that you are working in. Cheers, Peter. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Robison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:23 AM Subject: Barrel compost
> At 12:01 PM 8/29/2002 -0400, sharon wrote: > . last time i tried 504 there wasn't much left in the ground. > >the worms must have et it. Worm don't usually eat nettle, but other plants will send their roots to it esp. nettle and grapes. > > >as to the b.c. it is quite expensive and hard to > >find a clean , small wooden keg,as recomended. > > We make a wooden box from scrap lumber, it's not even round. Seems to work > ok. I have made a "barrel" in the past, rip a bevel on a bunch of wooden > slats and band them together into a cylinder. Using regular (Doug fir) > lumber, it's only good for about one season. So hasn't been worth the trouble. > > > > > ==================== > David Robison >
