Compost Awareness Week May 4th - May 10th
If you read this site regularly you will know that compost is one of my favourite subjects. Next week is compost awareness week running from the 4th to the 10th of May. There are events going on all over the country and it is being supported by celebrity gardener Charlie Dimmock. In my opinion you can never have too much compost so if you need to get a compost bin check out the site to where you can get cheap compost bins from. One of the added benefits of composting is that you put a lot of food waste in your wheelie bin it can end up quite smelly especially if you bin is only collected every too weeks. Composting this waste could make you bin smell a bit nicer.
It’s amazing how much stuff will fit into one compost bin. One week it will be almost full and as the composting process develops the bins seems to empty itself. I used to worry about what I would do if one got full up so I got another one. I have still never filled one to the top. Having two is good though as turning the compost i.e. moving the whole lot into another bin speeds up the whole process. I generally try and give mine a ’stir’ with a big stick. I should probably get a compost aerator to do this - although the big stick seems to be working at the moment.
If you want to go a bit further and compost all your food waste including meat you need a bokashi compost bin. As I understand all you really need to do this is a compost bin and some bokashi bran. This video explains how to make your own bran:
I have watched the video but not tried the recipe - sometimes there is not enough time in the day!
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