I sympathise about the heavy lorries and smoke, artjack. But, I suspect, a properly designed and modern incinerator, with all the right filters and caefully thought out (ha!) access routes, providing heat for electricity generation and local heating for houses would be an excellent idea. I believe they do this in Scandiwegian countries, where they know about energy conservation.
And indoor composting for farmers seems fine to me as long as we amateurs can still get the stuff from somewhere - like the bottom of the garden
Hi, I have mixed, watered and added grass and other green stuff today. Edd, cardboard is now shredded ready to mix in tomorrow. There are turfs of grass which are taking their time to break up from last year. Its piled in a corner of my large compost bin and covered with some tarpaulin. Have I missed anything or is it now a case of hoping it heats up and waiting??
I've emptied it. It looks nice and smells nice! It's a little dry but when it's all in a pile outside the bin now, it looks like a pile of dark soil with random, less composted bits of teabags, eggshells and egg boxes. Can I use that to mix with my flower and veg beds or should I leave it to turn into compost completely?
Maybe I could use some of the better mixture from the bottom of the compost bin in veg beds and put the uncomposted back in the bin with grass cuttings etc as advised above.
If it looks like compost and smells like compost, it's compost! Well done
Fish out the tea bags: if they haven't rotted by now they're made of plastic and they won't. Crush the eggshells and leave them in - ideally crush them before you add them in future. They'll help netralise the inevitable acidity in the compost. Or crush them coarsely and use them to discourage slugs.
Definitely use the best stuff and put the worst through again. Anything semi-rotted can go under your runner beans to hold the water.
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I sympathise about the heavy lorries and smoke, artjack. But, I suspect, a properly designed and modern incinerator, with all the right filters and caefully thought out (ha!) access routes, providing heat for electricity generation and local heating for houses would be an excellent idea. I believe they do this in Scandiwegian countries, where they know about energy conservation.
And indoor composting for farmers seems fine to me as long as we amateurs can still get the stuff from somewhere - like the bottom of the garden
Maybe I could use some of the better mixture from the bottom of the compost bin in veg beds and put the uncomposted back in the bin with grass cuttings etc as advised above.
If it looks like compost and smells like compost, it's compost! Well done
Fish out the tea bags: if they haven't rotted by now they're made of plastic and they won't. Crush the eggshells and leave them in - ideally crush them before you add them in future. They'll help netralise the inevitable acidity in the compost. Or crush them coarsely and use them to discourage slugs.
Definitely use the best stuff and put the worst through again. Anything semi-rotted can go under your runner beans to hold the water.