For anyone who is unaware of how this forum operates - debate and differing methods and viewpoints etc are always welcome in any thread, and no one 'owns' a thread just because they start it. Rude, offensive, cherry picked comments, and unfounded accusations aren't, which is why posts get reported and then removed.
To get back to compost - there are many methods, but they all have the same basics. A mix of suitable material, the means and space to store it, and somewhere to use it when it's ready. How it's used depends on the quality and condition. Simples.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It becomes clear he's not talking about home made, but commercially produced bagged compost which is heated (cooked even) to high temperatures to sterilize it. He also says that once it's been thrown on the soil to be used it's actually really good. My own hot compost is brown. He obviously positively encourages home composting.
It's all about context and not picking out certain bits from a conversation to use.
Enough folks, enough. Let's not spoil this good and informative thread. It doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong. Let us all have our own way of doing things and learn from those who know more than some of us.
Woodgreen posted a good reply up thread, please can we take note and agree to disagree in a good natured way.
The best compost we ever produced here was made 'hot' and it cooked weed roots and weed seeds but was rich in life when it was ready for use. Presumably life survived and more moved in during cooling and maturing. I'm not saying that 'hot' is a must, it's hard work! Just wanted to add to the info. But some gardens do produce lots of waste so it needs processing faster, otherwise too much land is taken up by slow heaps and bins. I miss the fact that we rarely needed a council bin, we used everything the site produced. But there were two of us, we were younger, so now I settle for a different method and some goes to very hot council composting. Readers of the forum will be of all ages, some starting out on their gardening path, others getting on a bit, so it's good that they can read all these different methods and choose to suit their circumstances and above all, to learn that there is no 'one way'. I suppose that the analogy between compost and forums is the mixture. But some things harm a compost, and some things harm a forum, leading to the loss of sources of useful info and new ideas when people are put down for telling how they like to garden, and what works for them. Naive I know, but....oh never mind.
I don’t disagree, but the threads author, has been very abusive to a number of posters, on this and other threads, and has had a number of posts removed. This is not acceptable and if it continues he will, I am sure be banned.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I was thinking of this last night Woodgreen after I'd read a post yesterday and wondered how, for instance worms, get into the heap after the heat that kills the weed seeds. I daresay that bacteria regenerates (or does it?) but how do the insects find their way back in?
Do you know, @Uff I have no idea how they do it, I just marvel at nature's ability to get on with it. 😊 Wriggle, slither, morph, squeeze, crawl, fly, hop, hatch, emerge, drop in, blow in, rain in or "I was here all along, guv!" who knows. Garden compost is open to all, open all hours, not sealed in plastic bags, and they just seem to move in. Red worms, then later big fat earthworms, centipedes, all sorts.🙂
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Rude, offensive, cherry picked comments, and unfounded accusations aren't, which is why posts get reported and then removed.
To get back to compost - there are many methods, but they all have the same basics. A mix of suitable material, the means and space to store it, and somewhere to use it when it's ready. How it's used depends on the quality and condition.
Simples.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some people on here take a more subtle approach to rudeness, then run and hide behind their huge posts tally.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I take it you think I'm cherry picking? Fair enough. Believe what you want
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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It becomes clear he's not talking about home made, but commercially produced bagged compost which is heated (cooked even) to high temperatures to sterilize it.
He also says that once it's been thrown on the soil to be used it's actually really good.
My own hot compost is brown.
He obviously positively encourages home composting.
It's all about context and not picking out certain bits from a conversation to use.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Woodgreen posted a good reply up thread, please can we take note and agree to disagree in a good natured way.
Presumably life survived and more moved in during cooling and maturing.
I'm not saying that 'hot' is a must, it's hard work! Just wanted to add to the info.
But some gardens do produce lots of waste so it needs processing faster, otherwise too much land is taken up by slow heaps and bins.
I miss the fact that we rarely needed a council bin, we used everything the site produced. But there were two of us, we were younger, so now I settle for a different method and some goes to very hot council composting.
Readers of the forum will be of all ages, some starting out on their gardening path, others getting on a bit, so it's good that they can read all these different methods and choose to suit their circumstances and above all, to learn that there is no 'one way'.
I suppose that the analogy between compost and forums is the mixture.
But some things harm a compost, and some things harm a forum, leading to the loss of sources of useful info and new ideas when people are put down for telling how they like to garden, and what works for them.
Naive I know, but....oh never mind.
This is not acceptable and if it continues he will, I am sure be banned.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
😊
Wriggle, slither, morph, squeeze, crawl, fly, hop, hatch, emerge, drop in, blow in, rain in or "I was here all along, guv!" who knows.
Garden compost is open to all, open all hours, not sealed in plastic bags, and they just seem to move in. Red worms, then later big fat earthworms, centipedes, all sorts.🙂