New heap declared, using about a third of a 20kg bag of pelleted chicken manure dissolved in water to a liquid/slurry, to see if raising the N will help with the fade problem that affected heap 160901
We used only about 3/4 of one wheelie bin of wood chip so mental note to only prepare one next time for the black plastic composting container!
Allocated transmitter AT with fresh batteries today (for monitoring temperature).
Other materials:
The whole heap was pressed down and then insulated with two lengths of black plastic above heap, and another length wrapped round fairly loosely to allow airflow. Used mist sprayer to wet all except pre-soaked woodchip and the chicken shit slurry.
Composition Data processing for 160910
| Material | WLB loads | density | Nitrogen | Green | Woody | Norm N | Norm G | Norm W | notes |
| Sweetcorn & French beans | 4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.96 | 2.24 | 0 | estimate | |
| Nettles and Comfrey | 1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 | ||
| Grass and clover w some nettles | 1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.24 | 0.56 | 0 | ||
| shredded evergreen leaves | 1.5 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0 | ||
| woodchip | 2.25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.25 | one wheelie bin is three wheelbarrows | ||
| Chicken shit | 0.25 | 1 | 1 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | estimate, was 7kg | ||
| totals | 2.05 | 4.3 | 2.25 | checksum | |||||
| Normalised proportions | 24% | 50% | 26% | 100% |