Thanks Crowan,
Very helpful reply! Thank you - and for the link too.
What attracted me is that you can put weeds in as well, as the heat kills the seeds, plus food other than just vegetable and fruit cuttings as I do now. My husband has to keep going to the dump with all the weeds and the thicker-stalked plants, so it sounds perfect. I might wait till the spring though as I'm a fair-weather gardener and don't fancy emptying out the old soggy one in this weather!
Weeds (and cooked food and small bones) are all fine in it - so long as you wait until it is hot before you put them in.
In the meantime, many so-called "pernicious weeds" are edible and all can be used as plant fertilizer - just put them in a container and cover with water for a few weeks. An added bonus of this is that, once you've drained off the liquid and used it on your plants, the weeds are usually drowned enough to be able to go onto an ordinary cool compost heap. (Can be smelly, though.:eek:)
Thanks - more helpful advice. I just love the thought that none of this is going into land fill!
I know this is not the topic, but it sort of goes with it. Heard it on the news last night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-30115137 and oh dear, the announcer said something like, "It is the A9 to the airport, but people will probably call it the Number 2! " 😀
Thanks - more helpful advice. I just love the thought that none of this is going into land fill!
I know this is not the topic, but it sort of goes with it. Heard it on the news last night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-30115137 and oh dear, the announcer said something like, "It is the A9 to the airport, but people will probably call it the Number 2! " 😀
I think it's a great idea. We have a compost toilet and use the proceeds on the garden.
Further to this discussion, Alys Fowler wrote about the Hot Bin in last Saturday's guardian - here - .
She calls it "hot, sleek and sexy", which isn't generally the kind of language I think of when describing compost bins, but there you go, we're all different. Maybe I'm just too serious. I'm sure Boson Higgs will tell me if I am.;)