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Deedee

Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 250
Location: Surrey

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 05 8:46 pm Post subject:

David'll love you Bugs..to dig the hole for these on our soil takes a pickaxe and about a day !! (builders rubble etc) I currently have two normal compost bins in the place these stood and haven't got a bit of space to put them in yet while the gardens being levelled BUT I will get him to dig them into one end of my potato bed after my other spuds in there come out and keep you posted!*shuffles off to make his nibs a cup of tea and grovel nicely

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 05 5:35 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

In fact it would be rather interesting to see pics of people's composters, and compost. Is that terribly, terribly, heartbreakingly sad?

(Bugs you make me feel quite good about myself - thank you. )

I just started to answer someone's simple enquiry about the Green Cone on another discussion group and suddenly realised how much I was rabbiting on. I love the subject of compost.

I need help.

tawny owl

Joined: 29 Apr 2005
Posts: 563
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 05 7:38 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

Thing is, did yours come labelled as a green cone? They are a fairly different shape to a compost bin (compost bins more dalek shaped, green cone, well, cone shaped). They certainly do claim to be able to compost stuff that normal composters don't. Don't fancy it myself but would love to know if it works - never even seen a review of one.

What I was thinking too. There are cone-shaped 'normal' composters, but the Greencone is the one with the basket that gets rid of cooked food etc that you can't put in a normal bin or you end up with a stinky, rat-infested mess. In addition, you can't use the Greencone as a normal compost bin as well - it's only meant to be used for food waste, not garden waste.

Tootling quickly through Google, I noticed that quite a number of councils are offering them cheap, or even free in some cases. The Green Cone site has a postcode checker. Also in Telford, they compared different sorts of composting https://www.telford.gov.uk/Environment/Recycling/Wormtrial.htm). Quite interesting, although on my browser I was getting question marks in places (percentages?) so wasn't as informative as possibly intended! Found a a couple of other interesting sites: https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/acc_data/service/ep_homecompost.asp and https://www.fredshed.co.uk/greenproducts.htm

There are a few threads on the Allotments4All site (search for "green cone"); most of them seem pretty positive about it.

For dog owners, there's also a similar thing called a Dog Loo (https://www.armitages.co.uk/dogs3.htm) (no, you don't squat them over it - you collect the poo up and drop it in the bin), but can only be used for dog - cat poo is too full of protein to degrade properly, while of course any veggie-eating animal can have their waste put into a normal compost bin.

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