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Originally Posted by jewelbaby1224
I'll be cutting them back soon and I will have a ton of of material. Where do you start in cutting this stuff up for compost? ie: I actually cut all the trunks back to the ground after the first freeze and the trunks are huge!
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I have a 10 horsepower chipper that I use to chip up branches and palm fronds, and other etc. hard stuff. That goes in a pile to be used as browns for the composter. Softer things, like dry banana leaves, pseudostems, assorted fruit byproducts and other organic kitchen waste, I cut up with scissors or a machete and put them right in the compost barrel. The pseudostems are really good because they're extremely moist, so they'll also go right in, but chopped into managable sizes. It's amazing how fast the compost barrel I recently got eats through material.
May I recommend this manual -
It's chock-full-of great info about composting and will surely get you more the wiser when it comes to it.
You can find it on Amazon.com for a penny + shipping.
I'm thinking about getting an under the sink kich'n komposter to hook up to my disposal, too.
...not to deviate too far from the topic, though
