Homemade compost is so exciting! (MERGED)

olibearhorse

absfabs wrote: »

:beer: Rosieben,

glad to have the most faithful follower of this thread join in with compost making at last !

:j

Ditto! Here's to Rosieben!! :beer:

rosieben

Thanks girls! I'm so excited!!!

I'm home all day tomorrow so I can play with it - dont care if it IS raining!

Looking forward to trying out my water butt too - today's the first rain we've had since it was connected!

do I need to get a life, d'you think????

bones61

rosieben wrote: »

do I need to get a life, d'you think????

you've got a passion for your hobby, gardening. damn sight/site (?) more of a life than some people that I know.

olibearhorse

well if you are anything like me Rosieben, you will get just as excited about your water butt as you will your composter. When you see that little butt full to the brim with water you will be dying to use it but can't until it stops raining!

akh43

Do you have to put your composter on soil? The position I was considering using is on concrete in a part of the garden where not much grows well as its in the shade of my garden shed. Would this be ok?

Thanks

Jayar

It's here! I can see why they're nicknamed Daleks AND I can now see why they blow away so readily: they're a wee bit flimsy are they no? It's really windy here today, so I've tucked in inbetween the greenhouse and the cabin: well out of OH's sight, because he's not too keen on the whole composting thing and will take any chance he gets to knock the idea :mad:
But, Am I bovvered?
Face, Bovvered, I'm NOT bovvered :rotfl:
However, the down side is, the leaflet says I should start off with about 6" of twiggy stuff, but I don't have 6" of twiggy stuff. I did have, last week, but I gave it all away to the council :rolleyes:
Any suggestions?

p.s. This is my third attempt at posting this. I got so excited, I kept hitting the wrong buttons

beer2006

How about cardboard cut into strips

Jayar

Good idea Beer, I have plenty of that.

Kay_Peel

Jayar wrote: »

It's here!
However, the down side is, the leaflet says I should start off with about 6" of twiggy stuff, but I don't have 6" of twiggy stuff. I did have, last week, but I gave it all away to the council :rolleyes:
Any suggestions?

The idea is to create some airspaces at the bottom - otherwise it's soggy, claggy and compacted. The inside of toilet and kitchen rolls, torn up cardboard, newspaper scrunched up into big balls - that's the sort of thing you need at the bottom layer to start off with.

Good luck, Jayar. :T

K.

absfabs

akh43 wrote: »

Do you have to put your composter on soil? The position I was considering using is on concrete in a part of the garden where not much grows well as its in the shade of my garden shed. Would this be ok?

Thanks

this has been discussed quite a bit earlier in the thread, just go back a few pages...