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Old 04-08-2008, 08:17 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Earthmaker compost bin good or gimmick?


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Janet Tweedy writes:
| | You buy 8-10 metres of pig netting, cut it in half and tie it
| together with 1.5 mm galvanised iron wire, forming two loops.
| You then hammer four 2 metre lengths of gas pipe, old swing tube
| or whatever into the ground, holding the loops in a square.
| When you come to remove it, you work the pipe out and lift the
| netting off (it can be a bit of a pain, but it's not too bad).
|
| Not sure if I understand why you cut it in half and then tie it
| together? (Absolutely hopeless at thinking in 3d)

You tie the two ends of each section to each other, not the
two sections together!

A square with a circumference of 10 metres has sides of 2.5
metres - that is too large for a heap, as it becomes anaerobic
in the centre. Halving it makes two squares with 1.25 metre
sides.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.