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What kind of worms?
On Sep 4, 1:38*pm, K wrote:
Des Higgins writes On Sep 4, 12:48*pm, K wrote: Des Higgins writes 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. I put cardboard and paper on mine as well. In winter, it gets a high proportion of card and paper, so veg peelings are a welcome addition. Our compost is not great but it is functional (gets rid of peelings and garden waste and makes stuff that can be dug in). In winter, ours tends to sit there in a soggy clammy mess. It still works. 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. When I lived in a house with no indoor loo, I had a hole just outside the back door which took a large amount of urine (on a wet windy night it's far nicer to use a bucket and tip it outside the back door rather than head off down the garden and sit in a draughty hut), tea leaves and veg peelings - it was as sweet as anything and produced wonderful compost. -- Kay I don't suppose you have thought of bottling the urine as K's patented compost accelerator? |
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