On Sep 4, 12:48*pm, K wrote:
Des Higgins writes

I gave up with my wormery (I live in Monkstown) after 6 months as the
worms never looked very happy and it just never got going. *Most food
waste seemed to just accumulate and or/go rotten and it was hard to
keep not too hot or cold or too wet or too dry. *Now we have one of
those green cone things that you used to be able to get from somwhere
in Dublin for free or subsidised but we bought it in the eco shop in
Greystones. *It is hard work (my wife dug the hole). *You have to dig a
big hole and bury half of it but we now put all cooked food waste in
it. *We also have a whopping big normal compost heap but now put all
veg. peelings in the cone.

Why have you decided not to put veg peelings and cooked food on the
compost heap?


We always used to put veg peelings on the compost heap but that was to
get rid of them rather than to make compost. We mainly make compost
from grass clippings and shreddings. Just to get the green cone
going, I decided to put peelings as well as cooked food in, to help it
get going.

It smells at this stage but only if you lift the lid and put your face
close to it. *I am hoping the smell will stabilise when it gets going
but even if not, it is still worth it. *Now, nothing smelly ever goes
in the domestic refuse.

Does that mean you put fish heads and meat scraps in the cone?

Everything that comes off plates after dinner, anything that has gone
off, bones (not much as most of the family are vegetarian), and yes,
fish heads. We only started it a few weeks ago for the first few
weeks it was smelly, I am hoping it will calm down. We did put some
stuff in that would stink to high heaven anyway (meaty bones). It is
a big cone shaped thing. It has a basket underneath that gets buried
about 1.5Mdeep. Initially it has no worms or wildlife. I guess they
will take time to find it.


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Kay