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    Compost pile vs. compost bin.

    Don't laugh too hard but I finally put up a compost bin yesterday. Previously I just piled stuff on the ground and let it rot.

    Yep, it's something so simple yet it was very satisfying to finally have it. Now I have to go around collect stuff to put into it that has blown around this winter. That's going to be a lot of work but worth it.

    Another "Life is Good!" moment.
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    You might as well go the whole hog and make another one next to it. That way you've got one to fill and one to use.
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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    • #3
      I know that you're right. I can picture in my mind that what I have to put into it will fill it to overflowing but if I fill it slowly maybe things will settle enough.
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      • #4
        Pile or bin? It depends how much you have. If you don't have a lot you need to keep the heat in so bin might be best. If you have a lot then a pile will heat up just fine.
        Nerdy bit: x3 grows quicker than x2 Heat is generated in the volume (cubed) and lost through the surface (squared)
        I live in a part of the UK with very mild winters. Please take this into account before thinking "if he is sowing those now...."
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        • #5
          I built three compost bins. two are 1x1x1meter and the other 1x0.75 x1..

          I fill with grass cuttings, dead veg and flower matter and leaves. LOTS of leaves.. Unpacked about 2 cu meters- less when shredded..

          And leave 2 years or so..
          Just dug them all out this spring and muclhed everything I can.

          About 50 wheelbarrow full loads spread over several days..Not a job to rush at.

          I have just lost 2kg....somewhere...round my waist..
          Last edited by Madasafish; 07-04-2020, 09:31 AM.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Madasafish View Post

            I have just lost 2kg....somewhere...round my waist..
            I think I've found it...
            Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
            By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
            While better men than we go out and start their working lives
            At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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            • #7
              Originally posted by quanglewangle View Post
              Pile or bin? It depends how much you have. If you don't have a lot you need to keep the heat in so bin might be best. If you have a lot then a pile will heat up just fine.
              Nerdy bit: x3 grows quicker than x2 Heat is generated in the volume (cubed) and lost through the surface (squared)
              Which is of course why elephants have large, floppy ears.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Madasafish View Post
                I fill with grass cuttings, dead veg and flower matter and leaves. LOTS of leaves.. Unpacked about 2 cu meters- less when shredded.
                I love this TED Talk video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9OhxKlrWwc
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by mrbadexample View Post
                  You might as well go the whole hog and make another one next to it. That way you've got one to fill and one to use.
                  And another one - filling, composting, using!
                  Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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                  • #10
                    Yep I've got 3. One filling, one working one to be used/bagged up for future use then starting to fill when other is full.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jimny14 View Post
                      Yep I've got 3. One filling, one working one to be used/bagged up for future use then starting to fill when other is full.
                      Only 3 Jimny? I’ve got 7!!!
                      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                      • #12
                        7? I thought I was doing well with 4!

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                        • #13
                          Fair point, I should edit it to say "...go the half hog and make another one..."
                          Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                          By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                          While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                          At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                          • #14
                            Does the temporary use of my truck bed count as a compost bin? My son and I filled it up completely at the rabbitry yesterday with rabbit 'raisins' and today I have to unload it and spread it around the vegetable bed. It should help.

                            If that counts them at least temporarily I have a second compost bin.
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