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Betsy
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Posted: May 18 2007 at 7:13am \| IP Logged

What advice can anyone provide?

Has anyone purchased those fancy types of containers that you need to spin? What about the three bin approach? How much work is involved with each? I am not particularly interested in using the compost but more concerned about not putting all my fresh vegetable peels in the garbage! Any other advice?

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Posted: May 18 2007 at 10:33am \| IP Logged

Loads of info here.

I don't know about any of the fancy ones. We've just got a basic compost bin. Two in fact, because one wasn't enough

The main thing is to make sure that you mix green stuff (grass cuttings, peelings etc) with woody stuff (twigs etc) so that the chemical mixture is right.

No big effort required -- just chuck it all in and wait for a few months for some lovely rich compost for your garden!

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Posted: May 18 2007 at 12:04pm \| IP Logged

doris wrote:

No big effort required -- just chuck it all in and wait for a few months for some lovely rich compost

So, do you need to stop at some point adding material and let it finish composting? Is this why you have two bins?

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Posted: May 18 2007 at 3:45pm \| IP Logged

Funny you should ask that now--I was just inspired yesterday to put this into action! Several book titles and some web sites included. We just started gardening, and I'm tired, too, of throwing food into the trash.

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Posted: May 18 2007 at 5:45pm \| IP Logged

Betsy wrote:

So, do you need to stop at some point adding material and let it finish composting? Is this why you have two bins?

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Betsy

We've got two bins simply because one is full. Otherwise if you just keep on filling it up it means that half the bin might have compost that is ready and half might be still on the way.

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Posted: May 18 2007 at 10:01pm \| IP Logged

I don't have a fancy one, just a homemadejob beside the garden, keep turning it over and viola.....beautiful dirt!!!

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