Compost bins?
Question:Hi, I'm thinking of getting a compost bin but I'm not sure what to do to make compost! What sort of stuff can I recycle?
Answers:
Get on to your local council. They are subsidising compost bins at £6 delivered. They provide a very simple and efficient leaflet on what to do and not do.
Roughly it's 50% green and 50% brown waste. Just don't overload with grass cuttings only! We have a paper shredder (to prevent identity theft) and we put this in as well, also some shredded newspaper, this helps bulk up the "brown" waste
Keep moist and "turn over" every couple of weeks for quickest results.
We have had great fun with ours! Got last year and have harvested our first "crop" now to use around our runner beans.
Just get one, you won't be disappointed!
Vegetable peelings, grass cuttings, dead flowers tea bags, egg shells, shredded paper and garden cuttings ( not the woody stuff).
Anything organic can be composted. Depending on if you are going to use the compost for anything, you may consider not putting animal bones into it since they don't really decompose. I would also recommend that you place the compost bin far enough away from your house so that you don't smell it and so the bugs aren't an annoyance. Rotting plants, veggies and meat tend to send off a few odors!
anything that is or was plant material. this includes paper, tea bags, fruit and veg peelings. contact you local council as they often offer cheap bins and can provide you with useful leaflets.
cooked food scraps, meat, fish, bones, animal waste etc not recommended for composting as you will attract rodents
Tea bags, egg shells, veg / potato peelings, toilet rolls/ kitchen rolls, cardboard egg boxes. grass dead flowers,
loads of things. get a crock pot from lakeland.com and then put all waste in it - uncooked veg/fruit, peelings,teabags, loo roll, cardboard, newspapers then transfer to your garden. go on amazon.com and get a book called "worms eat my garbage" loads of handy hints in there.
I have a compost bin and put all my grass cuttings , potato peelings weeds and other veg from peeling and trimming etc.You will get an advice leaflet with your bin telling you what to put in it and you can buy an accelerator to speed up the composting process ,so you wont be waiting around for ages !I have just created a new flower bed with last years compost and its the best stuff in the garden(I didn't use an accelerator as I prefer it to be natural!)
You should layer the fruit n veg peelings etc. with some soil or old compost or else you will just get a soggy mess. You should also stir the contents to help it decompose quicker. You can put in things like chopped up egg boxes (the paper kind) and paper trays that things like tomatoes come in too.
veg peelings,grass cuttings but not too much of them,if you order one off your local council,you will not only get it cheaper,but you will get an up-to-date do,and don't list explaining everything you can compost? and if you have a problem with ants,these will gladly set up home in your new com-poster?
What goes in the compost and what stays out?
"Put in woody waste, tea bags, egg shells, uncooked vegetables, leaves, grass cuttings, fruit and fruit peelings. But leave out cooked meats and cooked vegetables, fish and meat bones, perennial weeds such as dandelions and thistles or weeds with seed heads, cat litter and dairy products."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/a...
oh its great fun turning your household rubbish into compost. ring your local council, get them to send you info and leaflets. theres alot of conflicting advice on here so im not going to add to the confusion for you. its really easy though, my bin cost a fiver a year ago and i have recently started using my very own wonderful compost. go for it.
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