If you're a new recruit to garden composting and have small space for a Garden Composter you could be engaged with the way the garden compost bin will effect on the garden. I would like to suggest new home composters with little gardens to begin with a beehive compost bin if at all possible.
It's right that in several gardens the home made compost pile is usually a untidy affair, and the bought garden compost bin is commonly not a gorgeous option either, all brown or green plastic. In several scenarios this is fine, and indeed acceptable. But in smaller gardens especially, where things can't be concealed and each garden fixture and fitting has a result on the entire, it is good to achieve the garden recycling dream about home composting without detracting from the fantastic thing about the garden. A wooden beehive compost bin will give you an efficient garden composter while improving the great thing about your outside space. It is sensible, in a little garden to have a comparatively little garden compost bin. It must still be practical. The compost bin must be massive enough for you to take at least 3 to 6 months to fill.
Then you leave for 3 to half a year to rot. In that time you want another compost bin to fill.
If you only have one compost bin, you'll need to take out the rotten contents from the base of the bin constantly, while still ceaselessly adding to the pinnacle of the bin. This is possible but a long way from ideal. 2 garden compost bins, or a twin chamber compost bin, is best. But I admit after you get the home composting bug, you well desire more.
Indeed we have 4 at present but in the future, who knows! My first expedition into the sector of home composting was with a municipally funded, 2 hundred litre capacity, plastic compost bin.
I must say it worked very well. The plastic stops the compost drying out and keeps things warm. The garden compost we received from our plastic bin was fine and crumbling and truly gave me the garden composting bug. But that large plastic compost bin failed to look that great in the small urban garden we then had.
Local councils often sponsor compost bins and water barrels.
Check with yours. That was how we were given our first water barrel and plastic compost bin.
It made both extraordinarily inexpensive indeed. The hideousness of those plastic compost bins is a turn-off for some though . Indeed I have mates with tiny gardens who just wouldn't have one in the garden to ruin the view. Although they love to be 'green ' and 'eco ' in alternative routes they could not bring themselves to reuse kitchen waste and recycle garden waste thru such an eyesore! Silly I suspect, but true and some distance from rare thoughts, I imagine. Let's accept it, as much as many of us like to reduce our result on the earth we have certain needs and wants. And, if yours is keeping the garden pretty and / or plastic free, the plastic compost bin and water barrel combo isn't for you! This is the reason why I'm such hot for the wooden beehive composter. They're attractive. Indeed I might love one, although it might be completely unrealistic as we compost vast amounts of organic material. They are just so engaging! I suspect having the ability to get a pretty product is a great thing. If you are not one of life's natural garden composters, satisfied with bins made from pallets, plastic and chicken wire, a hint of glamour may actually inspire you. I can not see any reason why you would not wish to visit and constantly top up such a pretty garden compost bin! Shockingly they are not as pricey as I believed they'd be either, and actually do make a feature out of whatever spot in the garden they appear in. I would always counsel having as huge a compost bin as practical and indeed composting as much garden, kitchen and animal waste as practical. I'm the proud owner of a dry compost loo, so I know whereof I talk. However for small gardens and just those new to home composting, I believe getting a pretty compost bin is a smart idea.
So many folks think making garden compost is mucky, or tricky, or tough work, that for them, building a spread of compost boxes is rarely going to be even a concept.
Except for anyone that starts home composting even just one or two kitchen scraps and grass clippings in a comparatively small ready made compost bin, it still is a decrease in commercial composts sold, peat bog devastated and rubbish heap filled. So , although I won't have one, I totally see the point of the gorgeous, country wooden beehive compost bins and still lust after them in my girlier gardening moments.
Except for me the entire point of garden composting is to make as much hummus as practical so they might never be practical here. I suspect they'd make a good pressie for somebody ( with a pretty garden ) who still has to be converted to the advantages of composting garden waste or kitchen scraps too. For those folks will see 'what is compost? ' quickly and thru the rose colored glasses of someone with a very attractive compost bin! Sealed garden compost bins are good for composting without caring about vermin or indeed children getting their hands on the kitchen waste. In wet climates your sealed bins mean you do not get the full heap too damp ( which would stop the microbes having the ability to function ). They also stop all of the goodness leaching away.
Sealed compost bins are similarly cool in hot climates where the heap could dry out ( microbes do need clammy conditions just not saturated ones ). If I was only starting out garden composting or a looking out for a tiny garden composter, I might definitely look into the wooden beehive compost bin option. Whether to improve the look of a small garden or because you are only composting kitchen waste on a small scale, they work well and look great.
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