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Originally Posted by peteremsley
is the compost any good? do you mix the leaves with anything else?
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It's fantastic. I would guess it is about 90% Oak, maple, and hickory leaves and 10% grass clippings, kitchen waste, and the straw and chicken poop from the chicken coop.
The soil in our garden area was heavy clay 10 years ago. If the clay was wet it stuck together like glue, and if it was dry it was like cement. After about a decade of adding a little compost to the clay every year, the soil now looks like this. I can dig down 6" with my hands, wet or dry.
The 2016 compost pile is in the foreground, it has shrunk by well over 90% as it decomposed. The beginning of the 2017 pile is on the left. What is left of 2014 and 2015 is in the background. It will get distributed this week to make room for the rest of the 2017 leaves.
