Taking out the trash.

[ChrisDuke]

Just curious. How do most people get rid of their plant's waste after harvest? In the past I've chopped it all and snuck it in a garbage bag to a public dumpster, but it scares the shit out of me driving with it. During the winter I've slowly added it to the fireplace late at night and simply let it go through the chimney. I just cleaned out my last harvest branches from four months ago, and it's so dry I thought about loading it into my smoker and torching it off. Do I did. I figured it would burn off really quick, but the smoke started hugging the ground and I freaked out and closed the vents off to put it out! Now I have a half burnt root ball mainlined stem structure! Lol. I'm thinking about just cutting it up and hiding it in the money grass at this point. So, question stands, best practice for getting rid of this shit?

 

[UncleBuck]

got room for a compost pile?

got a place where you can dig a hole and bury it?

 

[Budzbuddha]

I dump with regular food waste and trash. I crush the riot ball and stalks. With stinky puppy pads and shit, nobody knows shit. Just don't dump soil and plant matter alone. The trash guys never " accidentally " rip open a loaded soil bag. If there is some good leftover soil in container bottom. I top dress my garden plants or pots.

Or look for an open grave

 

[ChrisDuke]

Actually Buck I've been thinking about composting for a few years now. Thanks for reminding me of that! Burying it has crossed my mind, but my yard is pretty visible on all sides. Budz, open grave shit was pretty funny. As far as the trash goes, with the amount I'd have to stretch it over a couple of days to get rid of it all at once without stressing over it all being in one bag, maybe mail me some used puppy pads?

 

[Budzbuddha]

LOL , the little mutt of my takes some huge shits

 

[ChrisDuke]

House training a pup?

 

[xSwimToTheMoon]

My puppy goes every few months. No big Deal

 

[anzohaze]

got room for a compost pile?

got a place where you can dig a hole and bury it?

Wow actually helping instead of trolling... I agree with buck compost it

 

[ricky1lung]

I bury mine in the grass clipping pile or toss it in the fire
and burn it. I prefer burning it and having a nice camp fire
on the patio.

 

[chuck estevez]

I toss mine into YOUR dumpster

 

[greasemonkeymann]

I bury mine in the grass clipping pile or toss it in the fire
and burn it. I prefer burning it and having a nice camp fire
on the patio.

I hope you are using that grass pile my brother.. that shit is GOLDEN for your plants...
topdress with that and some comfrey or EWC?
yup..
Use that stuff and never will your plants go yellow or even light green..

 

[greasemonkeymann]

Actually Buck I've been thinking about composting for a few years now. Thanks for reminding me of that! Burying it has crossed my mind, but my yard is pretty visible on all sides. Budz, open grave shit was pretty funny. As far as the trash goes, with the amount I'd have to stretch it over a couple of days to get rid of it all at once without stressing over it all being in one bag, maybe mail me some used puppy pads?

I highly recommend a compost pile!
wish I would have done that decades ago, probably my #1 best thing to add to the soil.
An amended compost pile and theres no need to add ingredients to your grow, just assemble it all with layers of whatever your fav amendments are, and then give it about 4-6 months, and I promise you, you will wish you did this all sooner.
Seriously.
Easiest way to grow, hardest part is sifting it, but even that isn't needed.
if ya got room and wanna be a pimp, start a pure leafmold pile, and you'll never need peat or coco again.
not to mention the CEC of leafmold is some good stuff, pure humus..

 

[ISK]

I toss mine in a doggie park poop-bin....even the bums looking for pop bottles stay away from those stinking bins

 

[ricky1lung]

I hope you are using that grass pile my brother.. that shit is GOLDEN for your plants...
topdress with that and some comfrey or EWC?
yup..
Use that stuff and never will your plants go yellow or even light green..

I use it in the garden for now, I've got a big yard and bag all of the clippings so I've collected a few big piles over the last few years.

So far its just straight grass from years of cutting grass and leaves from fall. Not in a compost bin or covered just left out in the air.

Should I be adding soil to it and mixing or just let it keep breaking down on its own? Or cover it with a tarp or something?

 

[MoMoGrows]

You can add you used soil to the grass clipping pile. Stir it up every week or so. Compost piles can catch themselves on fire if not stirred.

 

[greasemonkeymann]

I use it in the garden for now, I've got a big yard and bag all of the clippings so I've collected a few big piles over the last few years.

So far its just straight grass from years of cutting grass and leaves from fall. Not in a compost bin or covered just left out in the air.

Should I be adding soil to it and mixing or just let it keep breaking down on its own? Or cover it with a tarp or something?

shit, i'd amend the bejesus out of that pile with fish bone meal, fish meal, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, crab or shrimp meal, oyster flour, some rock dusts...
toss and turn that bitch every week or so, after you assemble it "lasagna" style, meaning layer it grass, then leaves, then sprinkle water, then amendments, repeat.
OR if it's already a pile (sounds like it is) then sprinkle the amendments on top, mix it, repeat, mix, repeat. sprinkling water before mixing each time, preferably NOT on top of the amendments.
then after that, sprinkle some water on top of the finished pile, pretend you are mother nature and it's raining, DONT squirt it all down, the amendments can wash out, you want it all there.
Then tarp it if it's hot and dry out, or leave it open if it's humid or cool out.
By tarp I only mean LOOSELY cover it, that's only to help slow the transpiration of the water and accelerate the thermophilic process of the composting.
After that, months later you can use that compost and I guaran-fuckin-tee you'll NEVER go back..
Talk about a water only recipe... hah... you could teach a blind monkey to grow after that.
Sounds like a lot of work, but it really isn't.
OH and word to the wise... DO NOT make an amended compost pile like this at the base of a tree.....
I made my compost pile about four feet high at the base of a redwood tree... the tree's roots grew UP into the pile and it was such a painful cunt-whore to rip up those roots to get to my compost... that and the roots literally consumed the compost.. like it was 85% gone....
I fixed that though. Had an old carpet that got some rain damage, so I put that sucker down and then piled the compost on TOP... course i'm almost out now... gonna HOARD the leaves this fall, like a madman..
Those grass clippings are awesome though, a damn good slow release nitrogen source