Topic: Compost Bins??

[supersprout]

We get spent hops delivered regularly by a plotholder who works for the local brewery :P which come in woven plastic sacks. I cover the compost heap with a couple of these, flat, then with two duvet-style sacks stuffed full of the sacks I haven't found a use for, then a log (to stop them blowing off) :)

[bupster]

Are they heavy?

I know it sounds like a daft question but I don't have a car. So two choices, I buy direct from the council at £12 but they don't deliver, so I have to get a dalek on a bus, or I phone Blackwells for £17 and they deliver to my flat so I still have to get bin up to site.

I could wear it I suppose. Pollinate, pollinate...

[Jill]

No they're not heavy, Bupster, but they are pretty bulky.  Wearing it as a dress with the lid as a hat's probably the most attractive option  ;) but you'd have to stand on the bus!

Got a mate with a car who could help?

[bupster]

Possibly. I don't actually know all that many people with cars as I live in Cambridge. On the upside nobody would blink an eye if I was forced to wear it.

Perhaps I could attach wheels and tie it behind the bike?

[undercarriage plan]

I've got 3 "heaps" on the go at the min, made from the posts and chicken wire left over from rabbit-proofing. One on the go, one with squash in it, and one sat "cooking"! I just cover them with black membrane, seems to work fine. Lottie  :)

[Heldi]

Well there's a thing.I hadn't considered using the placca bags as a duvet kind've thing. Another way to use up some of the rubbish on my plot...thanks peeps!

[Icyberjunkie]

My bin is made from wire fencing threaded onto corner posts and posts in the middle of each panel.  The wire is lined with old compost bags and bags also make the lid!  Seems to work fine and cost me nothing as everything was from bits left on the lottie!

[Rose.mary]

I went down to the leisure center in Halifax this morning where the Council were selling Daleks, large ones with hole in front £5, and small ones without £3. We were too late to get large ones as they had sold out but bought 2 small ones (still a good size) They would deliver free for anybody without transport.

Rosemary

[fluffygrue]

We have an ugly black dalek in the front garden. Full sun, sat on soil. Seems more useful for chucking compostables in and letting them break down back into the soil than for actually harvesting compost from the thing, but either way, it gets rid of me tea bags.

Now if someone would invent a *pretty* compost bin... and also a pretty rotating washing line.. then I'd be sorted. Maybe I'll just attack it with some fairy stencils and paint. :D

Melanie

[supersprout]

There is a company that sells sticky backed plastic wraparound pictures for wheelie bins :P (no really, I am serious ;D, my friend in Kent has one ::)). You can get all sorts of pix, including climbing plants. Maybe this sticky backed plastic idea would adapt to a Dalek ... ;D?

[fluffygrue]

There is a company that sells sticky backed plastic wraparound pictures for wheelie bins :P (no really, I am serious ;D, my friend in Kent has one ::)). You can get all sorts of pix, including climbing plants. Maybe this sticky backed plastic idea would adapt to a Dalek ... ;D?

Hm, you have a point there! Probably would work well.. Or maybe I could just get some sticky-backed plastic and start doing some decoupage on the thing.. Hmmm...

Melanie

[Rose.mary]

Wardy - One is already full as I had been storing waste from the plot until I got round to making a bin. I had a fire yesterday and added the ash from that so I will wait until it is lower before adding more.
I also got around to starting to make a wood compost bin today. I had to dig out an old one that has been going for years. Lots of lovely crumbly soil in it. I amazes me how so many people start a compost bin but never seem to use the end product.
Rosemary

[philandjan]

We had loads of problems with Blackwalls in Leeds.

Big daleks were £5 a time, so we recommended them to loads of friends. Of course, everybody else got theirs delivered in 2-3 days; we got ours in 3 weeks!

Still, they did at least make a c*ck-up with the delivery and left us one too many!

Of course, we told them about their error  ::)

[kentishchloe]

They delivered my latest bins the following day after ordering so they might just be improving :)

Humph - I ordered mine from Blackwells on 26th Sept........ still waiting.....  ::)

[kentishchloe]

Thanks Wardy - lets hope so, eh?

[Jill]

Kentishchloe, I've a spare you can have for free if they don't deliver.  You could combine pick up with another trip to Lakeland ;D  PM me if interested.

[EmmaLou]

Humph - I ordered mine from Blackwells on 26th Sept........ still waiting.....  ::)

Did you get your bin in the end? I'm just curious as I have been waiting for over 2 months and still haven't had mine. Not getting any reply from emails I send to customer services either.

[Roy Bham UK]

If you are supplied water by Severn Trent you may be able to buy them for as little as £6  :o 8)

[saddad]

I have a bank of four wooden bins from "RecycleWorks" with Duvets as well they are really good and trying to make space for a fifth! Sadly they are quite expensive!
 :)