Insitu composting

I had a few empty beds so decided to experiment. Ripped up some cardboard then added kitchen peelings chopped weeds, minus roots and flowers and old veg leaves topped with a thin layer of manure and watered. Some of the beds may have ow onions or wizzard beans and some may be left till the spring.

Hoping this will save me carting all the stuff to the bottom of the plot to compost and then return.

The weed seeds and roots went in to a dustbin of water.

Google sheet composting - that's what you're doing 

Oh - that is what I do - did not realise it had a name. I also spread the fresh muck from the hen runs over some of the veggie patches in the Autumn and in the greenhouse bed and just let nature do its thing. I have had good results from those beds this year and from the greenhouse tomatoes.

I do something similar with woody prunings all the way up to small branches.  I shred the lot and put in bags with a shovel of compost.  I tie it up or fold it down and then leave it for a long time.  Invariably I forget about it until I happen across the bag years later and find it full of nice stuff

I use several methods, some of which roughly mimic the old permaculture way. Where and when I have enough animal manure, I tend to compost in a traditional heap and/or daleks as the manure gets the temperature up to where it needs to be.
Last year I used animal and green manure everywhere. This year, it's proving difficult to get guaranteed aminopyralid-free manure, so three areas are down to clover, and now a fairly big area has been covered by a big van full of jasmine cuttings from home, huge heaps of the stuff, That should suppress any weeds and dry/rot/do it's thing. There's another couple of beds that are acommodating the drying and rotting down stalks from the sweet corn, artichokes and the like, and most of the other weeds. It all acts as a brilliant weed suppressant and I will just rake off the woody bits that are left next year and recompost that or have a Spring bonfire and use the ash.
I also have an ongoing process of a problem couch/docks/thistle heap that covers a bed and takes two years to decompose. I then uncover and dig that over, pull out any vibrant root ( not that many) and that bed becomes just about the most fertile on the plot for a year or two. And so it goes on.
I would LOVE a shredder, Kirpi, that can handle the big stalks, but I just can't bring myself to fork out the money.

What you could do with those really tough, slow to compost things like brassica stems is to keep a mallet at the lotty to smash them down a bit before putting in the compost bin.

I have loads of space the stalks all go in one of the pallet bins at the bottom.

  wouldn't be able to sit down