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My daughter is moving into a house, and we are trying to encourage
her to use a compost bin. That will be for kitchen waste for
1-2 people, possibly plus grass cuttings from 50 square yards of
grass. I have no experience of such things, so any comments would
be welcomed.

A metre -cube (four old palletts plus an improvised lid) works fine.
If she isn't into DIY, plastic daleks work (much slower) and many
councils give them away free. Whichever she uses, should stand direct on
earth; and I suggest she mixes paper waste (like shreddings) into the
grass cuttings.


Janet

Add to janets remarks, have two bins one filling, and one settling and
then being emptied. On earth is good but I would recommend a layer of
close mesh wire netting under and bent up the sides as the rats love to
tunnel up into mine and eat the worms
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea