I agree with you Berghill, I have 8 "dalek" bins that occupy an area of the garden which is very shady and I fill them in rotation with soft garden waste with layers of grass cuttings and vegetable waste from the kitchen,cardboard, shredded newspaper and add sulphate of ammonia. I never turn them over (I'm too old) and after a year I have lovely compost and it is better than the bought one. No bother at all, I leave nature to get on with it.
You live and learn. After bagging a great heap of black stinking mess that had accumulated over the years you do not wish to do it again so the green waste get most of my grass, some does get mixed in the heap no trouble although I make sure never more than an inch at a time and like Dove I use my large crow bar to give it a tickle.
Talking to SWIAR, she pointed out that to put our grass mowings in the Green bin would fill both of them, 3 times over with no room for any of the other non-compostable material our garden generates.
Our old neighbours used to just throw their grass cuttings over the hedge into the field behind us. I was looking along the boundary not so long ago (missing cat!) and realised that there was a lovely mound of really good material. I told the new neighbours about it and I noticed the other day that they were collecting it and digging it into their Veg patch. Cat turned up 5 days later by the way.
If you ever want to start an argument in gardening circles then ask about Compost making and watch the stamens fly!
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I agree with you Berghill, I have 8 "dalek" bins that occupy an area of the garden which is very shady and I fill them in rotation with soft garden waste with layers of grass cuttings and vegetable waste from the kitchen,cardboard, shredded newspaper and add sulphate of ammonia. I never turn them over (I'm too old) and after a year I have lovely compost and it is better than the bought one. No bother at all, I leave nature to get on with it.
You live and learn.
After bagging a great heap of black stinking mess that had accumulated over the years you do not wish to do it again so the green waste get most of my grass, some does get mixed in the heap no trouble although I make sure never more than an inch at a time and like Dove I use my large crow bar to give it a tickle.
Merry Christmas all and good composting.
Frank.
Talking to SWIAR, she pointed out that to put our grass mowings in the Green bin would fill both of them, 3 times over with no room for any of the other non-compostable material our garden generates.
Our old neighbours used to just throw their grass cuttings over the hedge into the field behind us. I was looking along the boundary not so long ago (missing cat!) and realised that there was a lovely mound of really good material. I told the new neighbours about it and I noticed the other day that they were collecting it and digging it into their Veg patch. Cat turned up 5 days later by the way.
If you ever want to start an argument in gardening circles then ask about Compost making and watch the stamens fly!