What types of compost work best for you?

[Squishee]

What kind of compost do you guys like and use?

Cattle
Sheep
Shrimp
Worm castings
Kelp?
Or just adding dead leaves and grass cuttings onto your pile of soil

I'd appreciate if you could even post up your "home made" recipes.

[Wills]

I don't use compost. I use a combination of tree company trimmings piled on thickly with fresh rabbit manure and their urine soaked hay. When I plant a new boo I surround it with the wood chips in a circle larger than a childs wading pool and as the boo works it's way out I enlarge the circle. Works for me and the bamboo seem to love it.

[CadyG]

I use soiled bedding from my poultry barn and run/yard (wood shavings, chicken- and waterfowl poop) along with compost from kitchen scraps, garden prunings and leaves. When I had goats and a rabbit, their poop was the creme de la creme of ingredients too.

Some of it is completely composted (kitchen scraps, leaves) while the barn waste is only partially composted and is used as topdressing. I put down a thick layer in the late fall, and again in late winter. By April the top inch still looks like bedding, but below it is rich compost. Topdressing during cool weather keeps the compost from getting hot and burning the roots (microbes work much more slowly, so the composting process is more gradual).

[bigone5500]

I've not had much experience with this stuff but what I have been using has been keeping my bamboo alive. I buy 40lb bags of organic humus and manure. I'll surround the roots/rhizomes with it and maybe put some on top of the dirt.

[Squishee]

Thanks all, I added a bunch of Worm castings, cattle manure, and some kelp as organic fertilizer.

[BAMBOO73]

I would recommend using equal parts organic mushroom compost and cow manure once combined they release microorganisms that are very beneficial to fertile soil. Fertile soil equals happy bamboo!