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former commercial composter wrote on Oct 30, 2008 9:07 AM:

" when compost is cured it has the odor of soil, as it is then a soil amendment.to place arobic piles of curing compost a mixture of grass and manure near any business is plain wrong. the piles need to be turned weekly to add air to the mixor else the piles go anarobic and the heat created by composting will die and then you have a pile of stench that will freeze until next spring and stink even worse. evergreen should know better. "




composter wrote on Oct 30, 2008 9:03 AM:

" had it been spread out it would not have composted and would take a cpl years to do so before it added any nutrients to the soil, in fact if it is a mix of green grasss and manure it will kill the growth where it is spread because of the amount of amonia and nitrogen.it will be an anarobic pile of stench spread out in a field.and serve no purpose at all but to make room in the composting plant for more material. "




Unhappy wrote on Oct 29, 2008 7:49 AM:

" Why have you made your print for public comments so much smaller recently as compared to the rest of your content?Please remember our comments are as important as anything else in your paper.Please return to normal size print and show some respect to the readers who support your newspaper. "




Oh JP wrote on Oct 28, 2008 11:06 PM:

" First off I do not drive a heap. I drive a new type of truck called an f45000. You know the kind where you have to haul a gas tanker because I get 100 yard per gallon. Secondly the green house is not growing stuff there it is just a site to sell their plants they appear to grow in Anchorage. You know what I think? It was either Ben Stevens or Obama supporter dumping on us Valley Trash folks living in Palinville. Something stinks here. "




jp wrote on Oct 28, 2008 9:44 PM:

" Alaskan, do you understand how composting works? perhaps not, as democrats have all but abolished horticulture, and 4H in schools.
composting happens in "piles" no, not like the car you drive, but heaping mounds, where the chemical reaction can occur, if you spread it out too early, it does not work!!!
this is the base of the Obama campaign, let it fester, then spread it! see it works!!!

same smell though. "




Alaskan wrote on Oct 28, 2008 6:02 PM:

" Where the piles were dumped was not used as farm land this year. It was used only for the commercial use of the green house. I do not have a problem with the dumping but if the purpose was to fertilize the soil why was it not spread out instead of dumped in piles. The field is big and if it had been spread it would not nearly have smelled as bad and would have served it's purpose. The nursery is a commercial business and should act responsibly. "




NotThatDumb wrote on Oct 28, 2008 2:09 PM:

" The farmland was here first. It makes sense to me to deposit the compost on these fields to help build up the soil. The nursery should not have had to apologize. We all need to eat and farmland in the Valley is disappearing at an alarming rate. "




jp to alaskan wrote on Oct 28, 2008 1:03 PM:

" yeah, i think you are correct.
or perhaps it smells worse. "




4 Corner Neighbor wrote on Oct 28, 2008 12:50 PM:

" Glad to see that followers of both parties get equal time in the comment section. Proof that "Valley trash" crosses party lines. "




Alaskan wrote on Oct 28, 2008 10:45 AM:

" No jp the corner that you are thinking of that stinks is the one at Lucille and the Parks. You know the one near the Palin home. "




jp wrote on Oct 28, 2008 8:04 AM:

" oh, i thought that was the corner that the Obama supporters were at.
same smell. "