Compost bin

What's the best compost bin to buy


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The largest you can fit into the space allocated, or what your pocket money stretches to!

Cheers, Tony.

 

Two things:-
1. You need 3 compost bins for optimum returns.
2: You need to "organise" and rotate them as follows ...

Bin1: fill the first year. Don't forget to "turn" it regularly (you can buy twizzle sticks for the job or use a garden fork)
Bin2: fill the 2nd year and leave bin 1 alone to continue to rot down. But, do keep turning both.
Bin3: fill the 3rd year (leaving bin 2 to rot down - plus still turning the contents of both) and use the contents of Bin 1.
Following year: use Bin 2 and begin filling Bin 1 once more.
Repeat ad infinitum

You can make a compost bin out of old pallets that you can find laying around - or on Freecycle - or from a small building company/independent garden centre. Just get some long cable ties to attach three of them together to form a U shape and then use a fourth and only cable tie one side of it to act as a "gate" that you can swing back and forth. Then, you can make multiples - ideally three side by side for the above formula. You can cover the tops with old carpet to stop the bin getting too sodden from rain and to keep the bin at a higher temperature.

If you want to buy them, you can get discounted plastic ones via your local council website.

The real *key* to good compost isn't so much which receptacle you use to put it in but the right mix of green/brown content/layers. Plus, leaving it long enough to get hot enough to kill off stuff and rot down thoroughly.

My "compost bins" consist of tile pallets (these have four sides ) and the council plastic ones.

Oh and don't forget to urinate over it once in a while (you can do that in a bucket rather than in full view of the neighbourhood and then pour it over the bin contents ) . I don't bother with that because I have chickens and their droppings/bedding does a better job

 

Check out if your Council offer subsidised compost bins?

You might find that info here:
http://www.getcomposting.com/

 

I got a palram greenhouse what's the best to get shade in it


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I just been give some nettle roots how should I plant them


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