Comments on: Discount composter – savings all round!

By: mishmash

mishmash — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:31:20 +0000

I have three compost bins and find them very easy to maintain. egg shells, uncooked veg and fruit, grass cuttings from my neighbours (I dont have any lawns), leaves in the autumn, weeds (not ground elder or bind weed like you say) faded flowers and any trimmings go in my bins. I dont use any excelorator (compost food) I ask my old man to save his erhum…. urine and dilute this with water and pour over. I do this approximately 6-8 weeks in the warm weather. Every now and again I chop up with a spade and about 8 months later, I have fantastic compost for my garden. Hope this helps.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:27:15 +0000

No, because the fermented bran starts off the good bacteria, it’s only the baddies that smell.

By: missthrifty

missthrifty — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:33:13 +0000

Ah, thanks for the tip! They are cheaper than I thought AND the bran is too. Seriously considering it now. Two questions: you keep this inside, right? If so, does the Bokashi bin make the kitchen smell?

By: Maddy

Maddy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:22:10 +0000

http://www.evengreener.com/Search.html a leeds firm, supply the bins

By: missthrifty

missthrifty — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:37 +0000

@Maddy I have looked at the Bokashi composters. Haven’t invested in one yet, but thinking about it. As we’re only filling one dustbin bag a month (as per my New Year’s Resolutions), I get stuck re. what to do with fish & meat waste, as it can’t go in the composter and if it goes in the bin, we’ll end up with a very pongy kitchen!

By: Maddy

Maddy — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:22:21 +0000

I am not a gardener but I hate waste, I can’t ‘thoil’ it. I’d frugally used all the leftovers in the fridge but what the family find inedible gets slung. So I invested in a Bokashi kitchen composter (2 bins) from Japan which has a fermented bran you put on top of the waste to speed up the decomposition, and it really does work. After the first few weeks I peeped inside the first bin but the food looked whole still, so I couldn’t put it on the soil as I didn’t want rats. So I bought a garden compost bin to layer green waste and the kitchen waste and as I was emptying the kitchen bin I could see the food had changed lower down and was like a thick custard but sweet smelling. Something you wouldn’t mind handling. The drained liquid is too plentiful to use on my indoor plants so i use it for warfare and pour it down the drains to counteract all the bad bacteria that is there. I’m healing the sewers! So after sprinkling a little more bran on the green bin and covering with grass clippings I should have some nice compost soon. Better start gardening.

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By: gitasan

gitasan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:33:48 +0000

I have a similar composter and a family of 4 only has 1 bag to 1/2 a bag of trash a WEEK! We are very happy with that! lots of recycling and composting going on! Hope my garden loves it next Spring!
Gitasan