I had a rotting alfalfa bale that we had carried here on our truck for my horse. ( it was good when we left and we got a ton of rain). It's still really warm in the middle of the flakes, although I broke it apart to help air and threw the flakes on top of the horse trailer shavings to seed my new compost pile. I let bigger things and slower stuff go into this big pile and have a tumbler which I started from the horse trailer shavings mixed with manure, too. I add kitchen scraps and coffee grounds to the tumbler along with some leaf litter and pine straw. The big pile gets poultry bedding,etc.
Tania-I started some very small trees, along with a couple of dwarf peach trees on berms that I built and covered with stall cleanings. ( shavings and manure. They were slightly warm when I planted but I don't know for how long. Those trees, though, did fantastic!
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