Sheep's wool compost

Has anybody heard of this?

Apparently its made with sheep's wool and bracken.

I've been wondering what to do with the fleeces of our sheep when they are sheared this summer.

We've got loads of bracken on the hill behind the house.

Does anybody have any experience if this composting mix?

Susanna

 

I've never heard of sheeps wool going into the mix, but I don't see why it couldn't, it is organic after all.

Bracken on the other, it's awful stuff, and I reckon the only good thing I can find to say about it is that it never fails to produce plenty of material for the compost heap. My main heap is, I'd guess, at least 75% bracken. I have heard that compost based on bracken comes out very mildy acidic.

 

Not heard of that mix.

Google "wool shoddy" (10:0:0 NPK according to the first of my books I looked at).

 

Not experienced it Susanna, but I do know of onion growers collecting human hair to bury in their onion beds due to its high nitrogen content.
From what I've read sheep's wool creates high N compost and bracken high K so all you'd need is a bit of added P.
If I was in your position I'd gather the wool, layer it with young bracken shoots and sheep's droppings and leave it to rot under cover for a couple of years.

 

I think there's a very subtle joke in there

 

Yes, but leave it to the sheep! ;-)