Composting good or bad?

[doublesaint]

Is having a compost bin a good environmentally friendly idea, or a minging breeding ground for maggots and flies? This is part of my 'Good Life' project which will also halt interminably boring trips to supermarkets where you undoubtedly end up buying stuff you did not even know you needed. Such as plug in 'air fresheners', when your house already resembles Kew Gardens.

[Baj]

We've got one and think it's great, just means the bin is less full and i dont have to cart my grass cuttings off to the tip

[doublesaint]

We've got one and think it's great, just means the bin is less full and i dont have to cart my grass cuttings off to the tip

 

Maybe too serious a question for here, but do you have to sort of lay alternate levels of food and paper/garden waste?

[Scudamore]

There's a science to it all...an exact science...

[Baj]

Maybe too serious a question for here, but do you have to sort of lay alternate levels of food and paper/garden waste?

yeah, you're supposed to mix it up a bit, chuck some newspaper in there every now and then.

[Scudamore]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/compost-Gardening-Home-Garden-Books/s/qid=1217957447/ref=sr_nr_n_0?ie=UTF8&rs=64&keywords=compost&bbn=271745&rnid=64&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3Acompost%2Cn%3A64%2Cn%3A271745

 

112 results for compost on Amazon gardening section...some people take there composting pretty seriously...

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

Personally I think composting is a load of old rubbish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ill get my coat

[Ponty]

The closest I get to composting is forgetting to wheel the bin down to the road on a Monday night.

[PompeyLass]

We've got a compost bin. I hate the worms that collect around the top of the lid. Yuck.

[Cosham Scientist]

There's a science to it all...an exact science...

 

There certainly is. Raw vegetable matter (peel etc) goes in the compost bin, together with grass cuttings etc...

 

Cooked food and meat and fish waste and stale sarnies etc go in the digester.

 

No flies in either of them really... worms however...?!?!?

[Jillyanne]

We've got a compost bin. I hate the worms that collect around the top of the lid. Yuck.

 

Oh lovely, in that case it is a NO then.

[PompeyLass]

Oh lovely, in that case it is a NO then.

 

T'is ok though. We've also got a small bin in the kitchen that we use so we're not constantly traipsing in & out, lined with biodegradable bin liners.

 

If you shred paper then that can go in as well.

[Jillyanne]

T'is ok though. We've also got a small bin in the kitchen that we use so we're not constantly traipsing in & out, lined with biodegradable bin liners.

 

If you shred paper then that can go in as well.

 

My other half is a pyromaniac therefore paper is gone quite quickly.

[PompeyLass]

My other half is a pyromaniac therefore paper is gone quite quickly.

 

Cool. We had our fence panels replaced a few weeks ago & had a bonfire not long after. Still got about 3 panels waiting for the fire.

[OldNick]

I compost Pompey fans. They are so full of sh## they compost quickly and are soon spread on the rhubarb

[Saint In Exile]

We've got a compost bin. I hate the worms that collect around the top of the lid. Yuck.

 

You wouldn't like a wormery then!!! Great for the old veg waste though.. The little blighters eat it up sooooo quickly!!

[Iowsaintsfan]

Yeah we've got 1 but mainly use it for grass cuttings and a few veg peelings

[saint boggy]

We've got a compost bin. I hate the worms that collect around the top of the lid. Yuck.

yeh, that happens with mine too!!!!....makes me feel ill when i lift off the lid .......surely the little buggers should be IN the rubbish, munching away,not OVER it!!:confused:

 

still, i feel good about "doing my bit", and all my neighbours put their scraps and garden waste in there too, so it's well used!!