04-07-2010, 06:33 PM
I'm doing my best to create as much of my own soil as I can so I don't have to keep buying bags at Walmart or pay a small fortune to have a truckload brought in. We don't create enough kitchen waste for any substantial amount of compost. The one organic matter that is plentiful on our half acre is uluhe. I'm wondering how good this would work for creating compost. I have cut down tons of it to clear out some space (don't worry I left the ohia alone) and have found that after it dies there is much more woody twig than leafy fern matter. It seems to do a fine job as a mulch from the weed prevention standpoint but I don't know how well it would break down. Perhaps putting it through a chipper or shredder would help? Besides that, does anybody know if it would be good, bad, or "meh" as organic matter for compost?