i have a beehive cold composter double sealed with polytunnel plastic. This acts as a wormery at the bottom but composts above as it's regularly turned. There are also 6 filled recycling bins in the greenhouse, about 600 litres total. There's still enough space for 40 tomato plants and other veg in there so space isn't a problem.
OK, to save confusion the bin thermometers read 18 degrees centigrade at night.
As it's a hobby I don't just throw things in but pulp things first in a food processor which gives it a head start (veg and fruit, bladderwrack and gutweed, weekly chicken poo). For 'browns' the fluffy duff is found under rotting leaves in the forest, sieving removes anything immature - worms, millipedes etc are reintroduced. Adding during the summer counteracts over wetness.
I hand crumble after a few months then add 3mm horticultural grit at the end for drainage/aeriation..
I know it's a lot of effort and I do note your comments... but this year using this method produced an average of 39 per cent more fruit than the John Innes compost. Identical seedlings were planted alongside each other in 10 inch pots for the tests.
Hosta ... I'm sure it's a much better hobby than some ... don't suppose Oldcompost has any time to get up to mischief or go on holiday or stuff like that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What a performance to make compost if youre ever in Devon you could call in and find the easy way to do it, then I’ll take you to Hostafans and find an ever easier way ?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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My hot composter is currently 70 centigrade (after a final end of season grass cutting mixed in with the wood shavings from the kids gerbils cage) !!
Beautiful compost normally in 3 months from the hot composter
I don’t think many of us would make compost in our greenhouses.
i currently have 5 large farm containers, a giant builders bag 7 compost sacks and two wooden bins full, all made and ready for spreading this autumn.
Turnover of two months. No way that could go in the GH.
I think I'm at 53 builders' dumpy sacks and more to fill once the leaves drop.
i have a beehive cold composter double sealed with polytunnel plastic. This acts as a wormery at the bottom but composts above as it's regularly turned. There are also 6 filled recycling bins in the greenhouse, about 600 litres total. There's still enough space for 40 tomato plants and other veg in there so space isn't a problem.
OK, to save confusion the bin thermometers read 18 degrees centigrade at night.
As it's a hobby I don't just throw things in but pulp things first in a food processor which gives it a head start (veg and fruit, bladderwrack and gutweed, weekly chicken poo). For 'browns' the fluffy duff is found under rotting leaves in the forest, sieving removes anything immature - worms, millipedes etc are reintroduced. Adding during the summer counteracts over wetness.
I hand crumble after a few months then add 3mm horticultural grit at the end for drainage/aeriation..
I know it's a lot of effort and I do note your comments... but this year using this method produced an average of 39 per cent more fruit than the John Innes compost. Identical seedlings were planted alongside each other in 10 inch pots for the tests.
I think you need another hobby.
Hosta ... I'm sure it's a much better hobby than some ... don't suppose Oldcompost has any time to get up to mischief or go on holiday or stuff like that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think someone needs to get out more. ?
What a performance to make compost if youre ever in Devon you could call in and find the easy way to do it, then I’ll take you to Hostafans and find an ever easier way ?
Dove, for some of us " getting up to mischief" is what keeps us sane.
You've grasped my point Hosta
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And talking of getting up to mischief !!??