On 09/11/2012 11:39, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Martin Brown
writes
Almost all tree leaves are very slow to decompose. I keep my green
wheelie bin for the purpose of composting one batch every year. At the
end of the first year they get tipped out into an ordinary black
plastic bin and at the end of two or three they are perfect leaf mould.

I have mostly beech and oak leaves.


Oh that's what i do!! Great minds and all that!

i have a wheelie bin i bought so i could put paper in it but the council
won't collect from anything other than the black boxes so it's spare.

I wondered if i ought to drill holes in the bottom though for the water?

I don't although the black bins have holes (well more like splits) in.
They are discarded water holding bins from various local building sites.
Junked because they got damaged and would no longer hold water.

Most of the time I have to add water to the green bin unless it is so
windy the lid comes off.

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Regards,
Martin Brown