Thread: What's in your garden?

Originally Posted by Mendip

It's been a long time since I've heard someone say that!


I use a normal plastic bin with the bottom sawn off for my compost heap. I keep this is a shallow pit and periodically lift the bin a bit to shovel out the compost to distribute around the garden.

The government recently issued bins without bottoms, for composting, to each household in our village. Only small bins and totally inadequate for the average need. I haven't seen anyone use one yet.

I don't bother with bins or pits. There was enough material lying around the garden to make 2 heaps and start a third. I put them close to the new vegetable plot so, a) they get watered and b) the ground under them can be made into another bed.

I am using old banana leaf for browns and mixing the stalks with household waste for green. Soil and cow manure also used as I was taught never to use fresh manure directly on the ground due to excessive salt. I get the microbes as starter from global house. Weather has been good and heaps are generating quite a bit of heat.