Topic: A new type of composting?

[wardy]

I'd like one as well as it's good to recylce stuff.  I'm quite an addict now.  Sad innit  ;D

[Val]

I thought cooked food , meat etc, attracted rats and mice? they 'd be able to smell it surely and tunnel in, especially if its dug into the ground?

[wardy]

They thought of that when they designed these gizmos. They are specially designed for bones and stuff and are not penetrable (is that right, sounds funny) so not rat probs  ;D

[clairenpaul]

Go for it Georgie !! Can you use these things for pet poo ? That's something we have an endless supply of and I've often thought it'd be good to have a better way of disposing of it all. Let us know how you get on.

[kenkew]

Any detail on time to decompose different things?

[westsussexlottie]

It says pet poo is OK but in small quantities. Depends on size of pet maybe??? ::)

Don't know how long it takes but certainly something is happening to ours - you get some bacterial accelerant with it - and every now and then it gets a dusting of that which seems to spur on the rotting process.

[Val]

Oh right, well if its rodent proof then it sounds like a good idea. It must save on ground fill sites.

[westsussexlottie]

It is rodent proof - but says that you must not put it in  "a rat run" - if so - you have to protect the net basket with chicken wire. I think the website explains it all quite well.

[Robert_Brenchley]

So that's what the fuss was about! I have a compost bin which looks superficially similar, though it is just an ordinary bin of no particular value, and with no special innards. It was given to me by a plotholder who was leaving the site some years ago. The thief subsequently claimed that it was 'hers', it was special and valuable, you couldn't buy it, etc., etc. I never saw what she was going on about but she must have heard something about these things. She never got any of my bins, fortunately, since I fill them up the moment I've emptied them.