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Re: Getting dirt

by nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Birchall) Jul 24, 2004 at 06:18 AM

lockhart@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Zach) wrote:
>  nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dan Birchall) wrote in message
news:<slrncg10ai.sli.nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...
> > Okay... you find where Leilani Street crosses Kanoelehua (Highway 11)
in
> > Hilo.  There's an Arts & Glass supply store on the corner.  Go away
from
> > town on Leilani, follow it around the curves, etc.
> > 
> > A little road will go up on the left to the transfer station where 
> > people throw trash down chutes into compactor trailers.  Don't go
> > that way - stay on the low road that goes past to the right of the
> > trailers.
> > 
> > A little further along and there'll be some big piles of trees and
stuff
> > on the right, and maybe a trailer with a machine on it that looks like

> > could shove a tree through it (if you really, REALLY disliked the
tree).
> > That's the green-waste area.
> > 
> > If you get to the actual landfill, or the racetrack, you went too far.
>  
>  Thanks for the directions.  One question though, what does the
>  composted material that I want to get look like?  I'm guessing (could
>  be guessing wrong) that there're gonna be a bunch of big piles of
>  organic stuff in different states of decomposition.  I've never seen
>  composted material before, so in terms of figuring out which stuff to
>  get what's it look like?

The "good stuff" looks like, well... dirt.  Rich brown-black dirt with
little bits of decomposing vegetation and...well, if you see earthworms,
that's a good sign. :)

-- 
Dan Birchall, Hilo HI - http://dan.birchalls.net/
- images, words,
technology
 




 8 Posts in Topic:
Getting dirt
lockhart@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2004-07-20 19:32:06 
Re: Getting dirt
FiSH <jzsm26aEATYOURSP  2004-07-21 03:38:17 
Re: Getting dirt
Maren Purves <m.purves  2004-07-21 12:50:55 
Re: Getting dirt
lockhart@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2004-07-22 17:35:35 
Re: Getting dirt
nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2004-07-23 03:09:07 
Re: Getting dirt
lockhart@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2004-07-23 11:00:27 
Re: Getting dirt
nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2004-07-24 06:18:45 
Re: Getting dirt
Maren Purves <m.purves  2004-07-23 10:43:01 

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