General Chat

lol lorraine just told specky where the new toilet is xx

Lots of good advice, dont forget to stir the contents of bin every once in a while. Dont really like not having open base, can see the heap getting very wet and smelly. We have a compost bin and a separate wormery which takes kitchen rubbish, not cooked. Bin gets grass cuttings, shrub and plant remnants, some paper. You can compost shredded paper. It will all seem to disappear in a very short time when it gets warm. Jean PS Dont worry about the small white insects you will get, they are harmless.

You are doing great with all this Puss,


Caz xxx

thanks jean and caz specky will be opening it lol. xx

Male urine only. They have the equipment to make weeing in a compost bin possible and their urine doesn't contain oestrogens which apparently isn't good for compost.

thanks for that janet i couldnt quite see my self sat over the bin some how xx

I have open bottom ones(3) and turn it out twice a year to turn it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,its get full of garden worms,,try and layer what you put in,,dont pack it down tight or the air wont circulate.inside and get warm which helps break it all down,,,,,,,,,I leave mine for 2 years,,but have one ready each year to use,

Forgot to mention the worms ,well done Errol for mentioning them.
Never thought of it myself because being a tight arsed scottie ,i use open bottomed composters and let nature take it's course,he he,all those tiny brandling worms dug in with the compost does the garden a lot of good.
My two older compost bins are now used to grow potato's,they come in just right for Christmas.Fred.

Compost MUST be watered!
xxxx mick

You could put your bin out on the street on a Sat night and put a sign up....Gents toilet ;))

Marion

Hi Badger

A good way to grow spuds is inside a pile of
old tyres filled with compost.
Just keep adding a tyre as the spud stems grow.

xxx mick

My Dad had an allotment when I was young, for years, and all he did was to make a compost heap in the corner and it was watered by the rain......we used to have lovely veg from him........he was always a good gardener....

Hi Sally

That probably works in your wet and dreary climate- lol, but down here if we dont water it , it just sits there and looks at you !

lol Mick!!

I have 5 composting areas, lol.... always got something on the go, me!!

I have a turny round plastic thing that is supposed to compost in 6 weeks (it is ok, but it does take longer, lol) I have an open based plastic one... I leave that 18 months, and it grows fabulous spuds, lol!

I have a wormery... I love that, it is from wriggly wrigglers and has been the best money spent!

I am surrounded by Horse chestnut (2 now) oak (3) Ash (3 large and numerous saplings) beech, rowan, alder plus hawthorn, hazel, elderberry hedgerow... loads of leaves in autumn, so I have one almost ready, one that will be ready next year... and I will start another patch this year where I noticed there is a natural *drift* of the leaves from the prevailing winds (we have been here just over two years)

Fortunately, I have quite a large garden that requires a lot of feeding, lol!

Love

Daff xxxx

lol Mick.......thanks a bunch mate for reminding me about our climate......I am looking out of the window at the moment and it is grey cool and drizzly........thinking back to the times I spent in lovely Oz on holiday.....

......Oh but when the sun shines, home is the best place.......lol....

Good stuff Daff

I love compost _ I have 5 separate compost/worm bins and luckily have a lot of European trees around my house so lots of lovely autumn leaves too!
My compost bins digest everything from dead cats to old socks - lol

xxx mick

Dont know if you have council garbage wheelie bins over there.? They make the best compost bins!

Yes Mick, the green ones are for cardboard and veg peelings and twigs, but lately they have been asking for all food waste to be put in them too.....

Huh,trust that pusser to start a thread and then bog off and leave us to it he he,wonder what she is up to today?
Has she swanned off camping again?.come out ,come out ,wherever you are puss ,your garden is waiting lol.Fred.xxxx

hello fred ive been pulling worms up and putting them in me bbin, and ive put some tatty peelings for tatties and pond juice lol so been im mud all day xx