Busy morning!

[Tee Gee]

Finally, got round to emptying one of my Daleks!

It must be at least four years(if not more) since I last emptied it but it was worth it!

The contents were 'bootiful' after it was riddled.

I guess I must have ended up with around 300 litres of compost!


Now that I am doing more containerised gardening, this compost will go in the bottom third to a half of each container thus saving me quite a bit of money by buying (the sometimes) rubbish potting compost!

I will empty the second one next year then plan a two-year cycle for this task!

[Tee Gee]

[Jeannine]

Well done Tee Gee,that is super.

Maybe you can help me. I don't have Daleks, here they are not good in home gardens here  as the local critters can get in them, expecially the racoons. I have two large black garbage bins with tight fitting lids, with a table covering them.The racoons haven't yet figured out they have to lift the table out of the way to access the bins. No airflow of course. I put all my household veggie stuff in them layered with any shredded paper I have, plus the  end of the season greenery .That is the best I can do. I did open an old full one last year and it had dropped to half.It was pretty good but I wondered if I could be doing  something better

XX Jeannine

[gray1720]

You can keep a Dalek unemptied for four years? Blimey! Mine makes at an astonishing rate - I emptied it a year ago, and it's full again, and lots of lovely well-rotted stuff in it too. I've never known a bin make like it before - no real trick, no special care, just shove in everything from grass cuttings to paper shreddings, and away it goes.

The rat I had in it (much to my annoyance) seems to have gone AWOL, and there was a pregnant vixen in the garden this morning - does having foxes  eat your rats count as organic pest control, I wonder?

Adrian

[saddad]

I have some Anderson shelter compost bins which I empty every three years or so, producing a 1000+L each time... may have to raid them if I can't buy compost..

[gray1720]

Wow - that sounds amazing, saddad! Do you have a photo to show us?

Adrian

[Tee Gee]

You can keep a Dalek unemptied for four years? Blimey! Mine makes at an astonishing rate - I emptied it a year ago, and it's full again,

Adrian

Hi Adrian

Like you I fill it in a year but as I could get good free manure from the allotment I just left my Daleks at home to rot down.

In fact when I left my Allotment in December 2018 I bagged up the manure I had in my allotment Daleks and fetched it home to be used in 2019, looked this morning and I still have a bag of that left and it has the consistency of a Chocolate Sponge so that will be riddled and mixed up with some saved compost from various containers. I will add fertiliser and will hopefully end up with a compost similar to Ji 2 or 3 and it will effectively be FOC

Saddad's post reminded me of my Allotment compost heap as seen here;

[gray1720]

Well, well, I'd never have thought of doing that! Good to see the old things still of use.

Adrian

[ancellsfarmer]

I have some Anderson shelter compost bins which I empty every three years or so, producing a 1000+L each time... may have to raid them if I can't buy compost..

Guess you could re-install them and enjoy total self isolation....

[saddad]

Sadly I don't have enough sections to make up a full shelter!

[saddad]

Sorry TeeGee, forgot to say thank you yesterday for posting that great picture of an "Anderson" compost bin...

[ancellsfarmer]

Sadly I don't have enough sections to make up a full shelter!

Improvise Man, improvise!
I recall a conversation with an old Desert Rat about the functional ability of the dinky folding spades issued to infantry. In his words:
"They only f****** worked after the second incoming round"

[saddad]

There are plenty on the site.. maybe I should ask around........

[cambourne7]

Envious i have emptied about a ton of soil from my greenhouse and will be using this to replace soil in one of my planters later in year and i had white rot on my onions last year.

[saddad]

Oh, thanks for the reminder.. I had white rot on  my top allotment 20 years ago... could give onions a try there again...