Garden Composter...

[Moli]

Originally Posted by Tom Cat

You get good enough weather to garden in scotland Moli?!!

Tom x

We do get a summer Tom, just not as hot as you get, I even get a sun tan up here...

[EmmaG]

Happy to help Moli, I know it sounds very strange but I quite like composting!!! lol

[Moli]

Originally Posted by Donna

I think MOli has a Water Garden, Tom!!!

Good thing about it is, we don't get hosepipe bans here...

[Kazz]

Moli.

Did you ever decided what to plant down your driveway?

And Tom don't push your luck the SCots are renown for tossing the caber no saying how far it will travel.

[Moli]

Originally Posted by Kazz

Moli.

Did you ever decided what to plant down your driveway?

And Tom don't push your luck the SCots are renown for tossing the caber no saying how far it will travel.

Still not decided about the drive yet Kazz, we have to get it edged first..The front garden is very wet, hubby thinks we may have aq burst pipe, so getting someone to have a look at it...

I am not a Scot, but know a lot of big muscley Scotsmen who could toss a caber quite a long way

[dinahsmum]

Agree with everything Emma said. You will just have a shorter 'active' season Moli, but the stuff will compost away.
Don't load too much grass clippings at once, or they will go slimey!
Just try and get a good mix of softer and harder, dryer and wetter. Shredded paper is fine, and crushed washed eggshells, tea bags and coffee grounds, vacuum bag contents, potato peelings, outside cabbage leaves, orange peel etc etc. If it ever lived, it will compost. I work on the basis of trying to get a bit of everything in.....everything must add its special something to the mix!
Don't put cooked food - it encourages vermin - but you knew that.

[EmmaG]

and it you really want to get it composting well get the OH to wee in it!!! lol

[Moli]

Originally Posted by dinahsmum

Agree with everything Emma said. You will just have a shorter 'active' season Moli, but the stuff will compost away.
Don't load too much grass clippings at once, or they will go slimey!
Just try and get a good mix of softer and harder, dryer and wetter. Shredded paper is fine, and crushed washed eggshells, tea bags and coffee grounds, vacuum bag contents, potato peelings, outside cabbage leaves, orange peel etc etc. If it ever lived, it will compost. I work on the basis of trying to get a bit of everything in.....everything must add its special something to the mix!
Don't put cooked food - it encourages vermin - but you knew that.

Whats the compost makers you can buy, will I need that???
I will never need my wheeley bin emptied again if I put all that in it...

[dinahsmum]

Originally Posted by EmmaG

and it you really want to get it composting well get the OH to wee in it!!! lol

"If it ever lived, it will compost"!
It might be worth thinking about buying some of the accelerator granules from a garden centre Moli - just to help if the weather isn't good.
But you'd be amazed - sometimes on cold days I stand with my legs pressed against the composter and the warmth coming off is lovely!

[EmmaG]

Originally Posted by dinahsmum

"If it ever lived, it will compost"!
It might be worth thinking about buying some of the accelerator granules from a garden centre Moli - just to help if the weather isn't good.
But you'd be amazed - sometimes on cold days I stand with my legs pressed against the composter and the warmth coming off is lovely!

lol seriously I have heard from many a source that mens urine is one of the best activators you can get