Bucket Compost

I had a broken bucket, i have removed the bottom, turned it upside down and intend to use it to do a little bit of composting. I have a lid and brick to keep it contained

Is this feasible?

Started it with balled newspaper, toilet roll tubes, the peelings of a winter vegetable soup and some weeds pulled out of the garden.

I would like:
to create less rubbish (but collection will be available soon in area)

create some nutrients in a bed that drains onto concrete and is made up of rubbshy sand and soil from garden tidy up

encourage some insect life into garden... it will be a wilder area. Planted wildseed above it and will plants some other things as we get them.

smiles
adam

 

sounds great

 

Sounds interesting Adam. I think a bucket will soon be filled and maybe not big enough to be really useful. Here's another idea that might meet your requirements and be more practical.
In a discreet corner of the garden that gets some sun
Dig out a hole, or trench. Stack the dug out soil beside it.
Put the stuff you want to compost in the hole and scatter on some soil.
Keep adding your vegetable peelings , weeds and stuff and sprinkling soil.
At the end of May erect a wigwam over the area with some canes and plant some runner beans. The beans will love it, you'll get pretty flowers the insects will love, you'll get beans to eat and when the beans are over the soil will be very nitrogen rich to feed that other bed. If you don't want beans plant a courgette on top of the space. Same thing goes.
Good luck with the project.