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Post by perkins17 on Jul 12, 2021 19:33:34 GMT -5
I have been have a bit of trouble with disposing slurry. Does anyone have a good system that is cheap and effective? Thanks!
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Post by manofglass on Jul 12, 2021 19:48:01 GMT -5
I just dump it outside You could just let it set in a bucket tell it separates Dump the water off let the mud dry then put it in the trash
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Post by rmf on Jul 12, 2021 20:29:00 GMT -5
It goes nicely on the lawn.
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Post by As I in does tries! on Jul 12, 2021 21:01:06 GMT -5
Unless it contains Borax then you have a dead patch in your lawn!
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Post by manofglass on Jul 12, 2021 21:14:55 GMT -5
Unless it contains Borax then you have a dead patch in your lawn! Borax dose not kill any plants in my yard If it did I would use it for weed killer
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Post by perkins17 on Jul 12, 2021 21:24:20 GMT -5
I don't use borax in my tumbling but I do use Ivory soap between 3-4 and possibly as a 5th stage. Is that bad for plants?
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 12, 2021 21:44:16 GMT -5
I do what Walt (manofglass) mentioned. I leave it in a five gallon bucket and let it settle. Once it settles, I'll dump off the top water. I'll keep repeating that every so often until there's no more water - or very little. Then I let that evaporate off and I've got "slurry cakes". I break them up and put them in another container. I'll add those cakes back to the initial rough stage as it thickens the slurry pretty well and pretty quickly...or you can just pitch those in the garbage...but I like to reuse them.
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Post by perkins17 on Jul 12, 2021 22:34:57 GMT -5
Thanks!
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Post by greig on Jul 12, 2021 23:50:05 GMT -5
Ivory soap won't hurt your plants. Ants might not like it, but I don't like ants.
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Post by manofglass on Jul 13, 2021 9:00:52 GMT -5
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Post by scaboorocks on Jul 13, 2021 12:38:15 GMT -5
I tried dumping it in the yard and it created brown spots. The slurry covered the grass leaves and blocked any sunlight to the chlorophyll.
I have now started dumping in my burn pile. Once that pile gets burned I have always taken the ash to the compost. I figured the slurry would be fine to add. Soil is just eroded rocks with organic debris anyway.
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Post by JR8675309 on Jul 21, 2021 8:18:39 GMT -5
I have a tall black plastic composting "tower" in the corner (flag lot) of my yard behind a large blue spruce where I pour out my buckets. I should be saving the cakes as the water dries out so quickly here it would be easy.
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