Bree Schembri

The rhizomes are too deep for chickens to dig up. I guess they'd need our help to fork over an area for them at a time.

I'm in South Australia where we have Kikuyu grass. It's a real pain.
I guess it's our equivalent of 'quack' grass?
I'm lucky though, in that my soil is very sandy so pulling the rhizomes is very easy.
That said, I'm not young and clearing an area of it is still hard work for me.

After a couple of weeks of filling up the municipal green waste bin I thought maybe I could hot compost it instead? I'll make a separate pile away from everything else and also let it cure properly. Maybe turn it into a resource?
Has anybody done this? 🤔

No one responded so I will.
A couple of  weeks after posting I found that it did break down and made an excellent soil for a raised veggie bed. Happy ending. Peace! 😊

My solution is to insert a commode bucket (with lid) into the toilet bowl.
It takes about a day for two of us to fill and we empty on the compost pile.
No mess. No drama. No awkwardness.

Hey peoples. We live in a coastal region of Southern Australia where we can help ourselves to an abundance of Posidonia australis (seagrass) for free. We've so far found that it makes a wonderful mulch as it seems to be breaking down only very slowly. That's good in a mulch, right?
But is that good in a compost?
When tried it in a Berkley hot pile, substituting it for the usual straw, the pile got extremely hot and stayed hot for most of the 18 days. Which, again is good, right? But it didn't break down even a bit (that our eyes could see).
Nor did the sheep pellets decompose.

We're interested to hear about anyone's experiences of using seagrasses in compost as we'd love to crack the code on this one.
It's such an awesome free abundant resource. We want to use it as cover material for our humanure piles, but we need to know how well it's likely to work?
So yeah, we hope to get some clues here before we give it a go.

Make a food-scraps heap with straw or other high carbon material and put the scraps out there gradually/daily, covering them with straw. Turn occasionally to keep it aerobic. I find this works well. Whenever I go to turn it I find that most of the scraps have decomposed. If you find that you have too much straw Vs nitrogen you could try peeing on it or, if modesty is an issue, adding some manure/blood&bone.

I'm new to the Permies forums. So hi!

The very first topic I came across was this one and I just had to laugh.
My personal solution puts me in neither category 'A' nor 'B'......or maybe both?
(Either way, I'm on the 'edge', lol).

My rented place has a septic tank which I do my best to avoid using.
In my laundry room (so, ok, it's technically indoors, but it's right next to the back door) I've placed a commode chair - the type that many elderly and disabled people use -
which is where I pee.
It has a conventional toilet seat, so it's comfortable and there's no issue of splashies, and a removable plastic bucket with a lid, so also no smellies.

When it gets half full I dilute it with some laundry water (which I collect in a bucket from each wash) and add it with the paper to the compost/kitchen-scraps-disposal-system.

I bought the commode chair for a few dollars from a charity shop. They are in plentiful supply (at least where I live) so, yeah, no new materials are needed.