-
Sage Hermit
- Green Thumb
- Posts: 532
- Joined: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:20 pm
- Location: Finlaysen, MN Coniferous Forest
Sage Hermit wrote:The mounds are alive!! cooked yoour potatoes? How is that possible? Did you ad butter or something?
I think what HG meant was that he planted the potatoes into the bales and as the bales sat out in the elements, they broke down and, in turn, got seriously hot inside (compost can get up to 130 degrees F.
).-
The Helpful Gardener
- Mod
- Posts: 7491
- Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:17 pm
- Location: Colchester, CT
-
gixxerific
- Super Green Thumb
- Posts: 5889
- Joined: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:42 pm
- Location: Wentzville, MO (Just West oF St. Louis) Zone 5B
True dat! 
Hay, especially wet hay/straw can get very hot. Why do you think farmers bale those round bales and leave them n the field forever. So they will dry out. They must be just right fro storing under roof or they are a fire hazard. Every year I hear of at least one spontaneously combusting.
Living in the country as I do, I can tell you they will catch on fire pretty easy with a lighter and possibly some gas. Not that I have done this myself quite a few times. Being as I have never done this myself I wouldn't be able to tell you they make one hell of a fire on a chilly night.
Hay, especially wet hay/straw can get very hot. Why do you think farmers bale those round bales and leave them n the field forever. So they will dry out. They must be just right fro storing under roof or they are a fire hazard. Every year I hear of at least one spontaneously combusting.
Living in the country as I do, I can tell you they will catch on fire pretty easy with a lighter and possibly some gas. Not that I have done this myself quite a few times. Being as I have never done this myself I wouldn't be able to tell you they make one hell of a fire on a chilly night.
-
LindsayArthurRTR
- Green Thumb
- Posts: 527
- Joined: Wed May 26, 2010 10:41 pm
- Location: South Carolina, Upstate
Hahahahahahahahaha! I haven't done it quite a few times myself either 
. Who knew? Since I just happened to have a bag marshmallows on hand and an apple branch, I figured I'd roast some. Me? Oh no, Sir, I'd never set one on fire."