plastic compost bins

How good are they and how easy are they to use. I have been googling and it seems like there is an art to getting good compost i.e. layering and turning etc with conventional bins.

 

Hi Nut I have two, and they are pretty naff to be honest. Okay for a bit if all you are chucking in there are lawn clippings, teabags and lemon peel, but I have loads to get rid of and they are packed just with the spring prunings. I signed up for freecycle and after reading a post somewhere on here I am putting up a wanted for pallets and I`ll make my own.

 

Thanks Lollipop. I am not sure if I will need anything big as I no longer have a lawn so it would just be the salads that I buy from Asda but never eat and the bits and bobs from my containers. I have access to some pallets but I wouldnt know where to begin making them.
Freecycle is great by the way I have offered and aquired from my area. I got loads of containers off one bloke and a water butt off a lady

 

I have a large garden and use one open bin and three plastic enclosed containers. I have to turn ,throughout the year, the open bin and empty it in the Autumn,but the plastic ones are continually filled allowing me to remove friable material from the access door all year round.
All of my bins take woody prunings because I shread anything slightly tough and the end product from either process is always good.

 

Hi folks. I have 3 `tumblers` and they seem fine to me. Around 3 - 6 weeks and it`s done ! Cheers...freddy.

 

you put compost in a tumbler? I put Bacardi and coke in mine. Now come on novice here whats a tumber plz?

 

Sorry Nut. There you go http://www.evengreener.com/Shop/Composters_-_Specialised/TUMBLERX_Compost_Tumbler.html Cheers...freddy.

 

I reckon Nut was having a lark there freddy...If I know Nut this is the kind of tumbler in question...:D

 

Blimey Freddy they are 70 quid a pop you must be loaded

 

Not any more :(

 

I've got a couple of plastic "Dalek" bins. One by the greenhouse & veg patch, so I can just chuck things in as I am removing side shoots from Toms, or pulling up weeds as I walk through the Veg patch.

The other one is for the kitchen waste, and being at the other end of the plot takes weeds from the flower beds etc.

I also need bigger compost piles for the bigger clear outs we have, and grass clippings etc., but I think the two Dalex are right-sized for the small volume odds-and-sods that used to just get piled alongside the big heaps waiting to be mixed in with something else - by which time the vermin had staked their claim on the material anyway!

Mine were 20 quid each from the Council's recycling scheme.

Pop your postcode in this link and see if you are eligible:

http://www.recyclenow.com/home_composting/in_your_area/in_your_area.html

 

Thanks Kristen.
I am they have two one is 17 quid and the other is 20 quid. I think for that money its worth trying.

 

We have a council "Dalek", cheap and delivered 2years+ now.
Seems to be working well and is always full of worms munching away.

 

"one is 17 quid and the other is 20 quid."

Me too, I went for the bigger one.

 

I use builders pallets. Everything from the kitchen and garden goes in except weeds. (They go to the brown garden waste wheelie bin) I have two heaps. I also lift cow pats and layer the compost up with them. You will have compost in a few weeks using fresh manure. I turn it every couple of months and always have lovely crumbly compost at the bottom to use when I turn. :D:D:D