Black gold...5months start to finish just chuck everything in that has grown in the ground except perennial weeds. I dont put in anything to do with potato, tomato or bellis daisy. They spring up everywhere next year!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
You might not get brilliant stuff from just food waste. Also use weeds (no pernicious roots or seeds), grass cuttings, old plants, shredded paper & cardboard, any horse, cow or chicken manure you can get hold of and wee on it. Mix it all up from time to time.
If it works perfectly it'll get hot and start steaming in a few days; turn it at three-weekly intervals and it'll be ready before the autumn is out. More likely it won't: turn it in a month or two, and again in the winter - you'll have good stuff in the spring when you need it.
You don't really need to add dirt (earth?) to a compost bin, just a 50/50 mix of greens and browns, i.e. fresh green stuff and dry stuff like paper and cardboard/ straw/hay/ animal bedding, but NOT the poo from animals like cats and dogs in a home composter.
Today, was doing a Master Composter event at the Green Centre at Swaffham in Norfolk and met some volunteers from the Thetford Arboretum who have discovered a way to compost dog poo in Bio-degradable bags in a specially adapted bin. Will do some research on this and report back
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yeh i thought that but its just food nothing else so need to add some stufff to it and convert to mini bin the transfer to big bin.
Black gold...5months start to finish just chuck everything in that has grown in the ground except perennial weeds. I dont put in anything to do with potato, tomato or bellis daisy. They spring up everywhere next year!
You might not get brilliant stuff from just food waste. Also use weeds (no pernicious roots or seeds), grass cuttings, old plants, shredded paper & cardboard, any horse, cow or chicken manure you can get hold of and wee on it. Mix it all up from time to time.
If it works perfectly it'll get hot and start steaming in a few days; turn it at three-weekly intervals and it'll be ready before the autumn is out. More likely it won't: turn it in a month or two, and again in the winter - you'll have good stuff in the spring when you need it.
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You don't really need to add dirt (earth?) to a compost bin, just a 50/50 mix of greens and browns, i.e. fresh green stuff and dry stuff like paper and cardboard/ straw/hay/ animal bedding, but NOT the poo from animals like cats and dogs in a home composter.
Today, was doing a Master Composter event at the Green Centre at Swaffham in Norfolk and met some volunteers from the Thetford Arboretum who have discovered a way to compost dog poo in Bio-degradable bags in a specially adapted bin. Will do some research on this and report back
yeh i thought that but its just food nothing else so need to add some stufff to it and convert to mini bin the transfer to big bin.
medavid, you can add plant material from your garden when you cut things back for the winter. Also Privet cuttings, grass cuttings etc.