my name is joey and i have 3 compost bins and one wooden one made of pallets i made two out of sand bags by taken the botom out of them and puting four post in each corner and then just fill them up and cover the top up they are allso good for leaf mold more the merryer joey
I have a black plastic compost bin that I purchased from the local council I find that the black bin allows the heat to penertrate and I add a square of carpet to the top under the lid, the woodlice do live in the heap but they are helping it to break down along with the worms, when their work is done they seem to leave, and I have a lovely pile of compost.
I feed my vegetables with my menstrul blood, which I save from my mooncup. It provides my plants with lots of nutrition - who needs fish, blood and bone when you can make your own?!
I am getting composting quite nicely established with a dalek im the garden next to my bungalow and three compost heaps established on the allotment. The results made quite a big difference to the heavy clay soil in this area and after the third season of cultivation I finally think that I am making some prgress in getting some workable soil and some decent crops.
As far a leaves go, there is a plentiful supply of these at this time of year but I feel I really cannot be bothered with waiting for these to rot down for over a year. I decided to abolish the conventional grass lawn in my front garden and probably will in the back area too, so I am using a leaf mulch as an easy way of doing this and letting the worms do the donkey work for me.
I intend to have an area of camomile lawn with plants growing through this and hopefully this will include an assortment of bulbs which I have bought. I shall need to have a decent layer of sand in the planting area for bulbs as the clay soil seems to suit the snails and slugs very well as a habitat. I hope that the leaf mulch will not provide them with too convenient a hibernation area for the Winter; hopefully the ground beetles and other predators will colonise the garden and this will help redress the balance. At least I shall have an area where there is something growing during the Winter this year and have a change from the rather straggly expanse of green I had last year! David.
St. George's School Gardening Club (11-16) We compost all the kitchen leftovers (uncooked), the shredded paper from the office and the weeds we pull out of our garden. Our teacher gets the boys to do the heavy work turning over the pile, but they like it! I don't think anyone is alowed to wee on it! We used our rotted leaves from last year to make-over a flower bed next to our chapel. It worked really well, and it was full of worms so that improved the soil aswell! We do see a rat, and hte squirrels like to raid the pile, but that's OK because our teacher told us to respect nature and live alongside it. Even hte slugs go onto the compost heap!
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As far a leaves go, there is a plentiful supply of these at this time of year but I feel I really cannot be bothered with waiting for these to rot down for over a year. I decided to abolish the conventional grass lawn in my front garden and probably will in the back area too, so I am using a leaf mulch as an easy way of doing this and letting the worms do the donkey work for me.
I intend to have an area of camomile lawn with plants growing through this and hopefully this will include an assortment of bulbs which I have bought. I shall need to have a decent layer of sand in the planting area for bulbs as the clay soil seems to suit the snails and slugs very well as a habitat. I hope that the leaf mulch will not provide them with too convenient a hibernation area for the Winter; hopefully the ground beetles and other predators will colonise the garden and this will help redress the balance. At least I shall have an area where there is something growing during the Winter this year and have a change from the rather straggly expanse of green I had last year!
David.