Wednesday 20 June 2012

Composting Kitchen Wastes


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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