Compost advice needed

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2018

  I don’t know what mud container is. We start ours off in wooden bays, then turn it into another then in plastic farm bins and Daleks for the finally storing. If they are full we put it in builders bags. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Singing Gardener Posts: 1,237

  June 2018

  That's interesting, Lyn - I do it the other way around and start mine in daleks before digging it into wooden bins. Perhaps I should reverse my system!

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2018

  Wood is warmer, that’s the reason we do it that way. Covered with a carpet, nice horse poo and some grass and it gets going in no time.

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Iamweedy Posts: 1,364

  June 2018

  How big is your garden is the first question. I have enough room for two side by side wooden bins which are mtr squared.  We tend to fill one while the other from the previous year matures. (We were lucky to get a plot at a time when developers still left space around houses.) It  does give us quite a lot to put on the garden and our garden "dust" (sorry soil) needs every bit of fibre it can get.  It has improved in 30 yrs.

  
  
  
  'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
  
  

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• Vegplotmummy Posts: 96

  June 2018

  Use anything that has good airflow! I use a wooden bay, you could get some old pallets for a cheaper alternative x 

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• quarteracrefarmhelp Posts: 16

  June 2018

  I like the daleks because the sides get smaller towards the top , which makes them easy to take off when you want to turn the compost. I have chickens and boy do they run when they see a compost bin being taken apart! they love it and break it all up very methodically , mixing as they go . . . 

  Grow it yourself, it's worth it in the end. . . 

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