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Reviving a failed compost heap

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  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    We fill the plastic dalek bin first, with kitchen scraps etc. then empty it into an open, made from pallets, space.  
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited August 2018
    Hi @robdunford I have 2 Daleks and a two bin bay. Fill one dalek to about half way and take half out from the bottom and put it in a wooden bay - stir remaining with my 'special' stick (old metal drain spike) and carry on filling. 2nd wooden bay has grass clippings for topping up dalek, although they have been like hen's teeth this summer! Use the 2nd dalek as a back up when it all goes ballistic in summer/autumn, pea haulms, runner bean remnants, carrot tops, onion tops...... you get the picture.

    By this time I have a wooden bin full of lovely stuff to spread in autumn  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    @Mary370 snap  :D
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530

    my home made boxes are high so easier to fill a bottle in the garage door shut away from the window, do not wish to frighten the nieghbours do we.

    Frank

    I keep an old plastic jug beside the toilet.  My neighbour over the back just had new windows put in, overlooking my garden.  It never occurred to me before that her family has a grandstand view of me trotting up the garden of a morning with my jug of liquid gold.  They are not gardeners, so goodness knows what they are thinking.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We start ours off in a two bay wooden container, Wood is warmer than plastic, then when it’s been turned into the second wood container for a while,  it then goes into the darlek just for storage. We also have some of those big blue farm containers, but there again only for storage. They’re not easy to try to mix and turn it about. Some in builders bags as well but only for storage. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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