Last year we bought a 235 liter composter from the Eco Store
in Co Cork, to compost our organic kitchen waste. At the time I wondered would
it prove to be good value at the cost of 49.95. But after over a year in use it
is more than half full of excellent compost and I’m very happy with the
purchase.
The composter is a solid piece of kit, made from 100% recycled
plastic and comes with a 15 year guarantee. There is a screw on lid on top for
filling and a hatch at the bottom for removing compost.
We have put all vegetable and fruit peelings into it. I have
also cut back a lot of vegetation in the garden pond and put the prunings in the
composter as well. All these sources provide nitrogen, for carbon I have added cardboard
and newspaper.
In a year the composter will be full and will provide the main
source of fertility in our kitchen garden in 2013.
You can of course make a composter with timber but I
doubt it will prove as durable as a plastic one. If you decide to buy a plastic
composter go for a barrel shaped, one piece composter like this, not a
flatpacked square shaped one.
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