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Jun 15, 2020 5:33 AM CST
Name: Thomas Mitchell
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@JBarstool gave solid advice. I'm trying to think outside of the box for you. This is gonna sound crazy, but I hate mosquitoes. I'm crazy... what I would do is get some plastic, hopefully something repurposed?, and I'd cover the entire bed with the plastic, like one sheet. One of those cheap painter tarps would be perfect. Cover that bed and roast the skeeters. The plastic should also increase the temperature of the pile and could make it decompose faster. After a week or two, if the pile hasn't really decomposed much, I'd likely then use it as a brown material in a conventional compost pile like JBarstool suggested, hoping that the heat treatment at least controlled the skeeters. I have two large cubic foot size bags of leaves that I let sit since last fall. Haven't had time to shred them, and they are now half leaf mulch. Very wet. Not sure if they are infested with skeeters, but have now added it to my list of priorities to finish just in case.
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