[Caretaker]

I will have to admit I have never composted my waste and would like to have a go in one of them plastic drum/composter bin, I will have some tomato plants and from the borders I will have my bedding plants plus 16 hanging baskets, was hoping I can compost this, there seems to be no diseased plants.
Seems such a waste to take it all down the dump.

 

[Sparkyrog]

If it's disease free you will be fine .

[Caretaker]

I have had a browse on Ebay and they don't have any bottoms to them!
I can only find a space in my little garden that is on a paved area at the side of my shed, will this be ok.

[Sparkyrog]

better on bare ground .

[Annen]

Mines on paving and it works okay.  Might take a little bit longer, but the creatures soon find your compost.  It might stain the paving though.

[Nikkithefoot]

You can use those including the soil from the hanging baskets. Just make sure you keep adding any veg waste (disease free) and some 'browns' as well such as paper or thin card to keep it from getting too wet. That way the heap will grow and give you compost for next year.

[BabbyAnn]

I have had a browse on Ebay and they don't have any bottoms to them!
I can only find a space in my little garden that is on a paved area at the side of my shed, will this be ok.

have a look see what your local council have - ours is very keen to get people to recycle stuff and bins can be very cheap (depends on which ones they offer - they might deliver or they break up into segments to be able to transport in your own car)

Re: paved area .... before I moved, my yard was concrete so I put plastic sheeting down and about 6-9 inches of garden soil in the bottom with a few earthworms for good measure (I'd never had a compost bin before so was making it up as I went along LOL)  Everything went in there - paper, cardboard, kitchen waste (no meat or cooked veg) as well as some garden waste (not a lot as it was a tiny garden) and it worked really well.  When I moved and emptied the bin (with loads of lovely compost for my new garden), there was no staining on the floor.

[cadalot]

Plastic compost bins come up on freecycle on a regular basis, check it out and keep an eye out, I had two off there and my sister gave me hers that had been in the garden and had never really been used apart from 6 inches of material in the bottom years ago.

[Beetroot Queen]

Everything comes up on freecycle if you wait a few days. Its amazing what people get rid off. A free compost bin is even better. A sunny spot will help your bin stay hot too.

[SusieB]

If it's going on paving/concrete you can use an old dustbins as there's no need for an open bottom. 

I used two bins with drainage holes bodged in them at my previous house.  If you have room, it's good to have two, one filling, one breaking down.

[Kristen]

Worth giving a thought to how you will empty it?

My Daleks are on soil in a don't-care part of the garden. They are cone shaped, so would be very hard to empty from the top, and dunno about others but I have never made compost so firale that it will all obligingly come out of the little door at the bottom and all the rest of the contents slide to provide more tomorrow!

So I lift the Dalek off, put it alongside and then re-fill it from the re-mixed contents (i.e. to "turn" the heap), or to empty it into a barrow. It makes a bit of a mess, and not sure I'd be that keen to do it on a cherished patio - although on a dry day, or with a tarpaulin down, it might be ok.

[Caretaker]

I have managed to get an old recycle weele bin that has been empty for 2 years it had been pushed from house to house and the local council just ignored to collect it, so I have drilled holes in it and started to fill it up.
I have a delicate question, I read some place that pee is a good activator so have talked my wife to do this but then read it has to be 20 to 1, is this true. 

[mumofstig]

can be neat in the compost but needs diluting if using as plant fertiliser