COMPOSTING MATERIALS

  • 20 Replies
  • 5048 Views
*

sunshineband

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Location: Reading, Berkshire
  • 32056
  • Tallest Sunflower prizewinner 2014
    • A Little Bit of Sunshine
Re: COMPOSTING MATERIALS
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2017, 15:57 »
Thanks for that I've got a shredder here in my office and i'll empty it now.
Cheers
Aled


If you have  a ready source, you're made!! I get sacks of it from where I used to work, thanks to a friend
Wisdom is knowing what to ignore - be comfortable in your own skin.
My Blog
My Diary
My Diary Comments

*

Fairy Plotmother

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Location: West London
  • 2940
Re: COMPOSTING MATERIALS
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2017, 18:19 »
Chop up your toilet roll tubes too.

*

Aled

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • 1041
Re: COMPOSTING MATERIALS
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2017, 15:09 »
Will do!
Cheers
Aled

*

Aled

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • 1041
Re: COMPOSTING MATERIALS
« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2017, 09:23 »
Added a pile of horse manure and shredded cardboard yesterday!
Cheers
Aled

*

TREGRAHOW

  • Full Member
  • **
  • Location: WOLVERHAMPTON
  • 56
Re: COMPOSTING MATERIALS
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2017, 17:32 »
Best laid plans et al. Dug a trench about 15" deep and lined it with damp newspaper. Layered powdered horse manure and sawdust plus shredded vegetable trimmings and peelings and shredded newspapers. Sounds good eh? Wrong! Been informed that just prior to my taking three very large bags of sawdust away one of the operators had switched the extractor from the machine cutting plywood and chipboard to deposit in the same bags as the clean material from the other saws. So I have a mound about 30" high that has chipboard and plywood sawdust in it.

I suppose my best bet is to cover that mound and leave it for a year or so before breaking into it and mixing it with cleaner stuff. Will 12 months be long enough to start breaking down the adhesives and resins from plywood and chipboard?

I think I'll find another, cleaner source of sawdust/shavings.

*

compostqueen

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • 16597
Re: COMPOSTING MATERIALS
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2017, 15:15 »
Sawdust doesn't rot readily. Stuff that sits around for ages gets filed in a bin of its own ready to be used for topping up purposes once it's got going

I don't mix grass mowings in with my compost. I do like to put that In a builders rubble sack on its own. It rots down like mad

I just got offered my neighbour's compost bins now they have  built some timber whoppers. I fear they might ask for em back once they find that big ain't necessarily beautiful 😎

I opened one of my full bins yesters and found it reduced to dust by ants.  ✔️ I chucked in a load of overgrown courgettes as a reward for their hard work 🙂



xx
Scavenging materials?

Started by Windsong on Frugal Living

5 Replies
2565 Views
Last post April 02, 2011, 17:31
by nipper31
xx
Get composting

Started by Christine on Frugal Living

8 Replies
3742 Views
Last post August 23, 2008, 22:53
by SnooziSuzi
xx
Composting Newbee - Gluts of Somethings & Not much else

Started by duckling on Frugal Living

14 Replies
4422 Views
Last post January 31, 2009, 17:13
by mrsdirtyboots
 

Page created in 0.132 seconds with 39 queries.

Powered by SMFPacks Social Login Mod
Powered by SMFPacks SEO Pro Mod |