hi
I read somewhere, maybe here, that you can grow things out of the top of the compost bin. Has anyone actually tried this?
I was planning on putting a layer of multipurpose compost on the top then planting some dwarf sunflowers to grow up and some pumpkins/squashes to grow down.
The bins are full of compost, some of which is well rotted and some which needs a bit longer, we are going to be moving the bins in a week or so and i thought if i mixed it all up and put it back in it would be quite a good growing medium and make a bit of a feature, which my garden needs.. spend too much time on the lottie and not enough in the garden...( lottie being easier to tackle :o)
What do you think?
P.
i'd like to know what's growing out of the hatch of my darlek !!!!! :o don't see much composting just new growth greenery. think i'll have to have a turn.
;D
I do this on my allotment compost heap. It is a rather large rectangular affair made from lots of pallets and during winter and spring I fill it up with green stuff - kitchen waste, grass cuttings, weeds, etc, then, anytime now, my darling will nip to the stables and get a mass of hot steamy horsey poop. This is piled on the heap. After about a week, once it has settled a bit, I make a couple of dips in the poop and fill them with multi purpose compost into which I plant pumpkins, 1 per dip. I water them, then leave them to it. The downside is the heap is occupied for the rest of the summer, but I either bag my green waste up, or leave one side of the compost heap unplanted and just carefully stack the green there. The squashes normally look a little sad for a week or so, but once they start growing, there is no stopping them! ;D
Only one bin? We have two Daleks, four from Recycle works and a huge job made from two pieces of Anderson Shelter and still fill up faster than we empty, (about 25x60l sacks each time) so we don't grow on ours. When I get a muck Delivery, trailer load now that is a good place for Pumpkins!
:)
I have one bin on the plot, but it is the entire width of the plot and 2 palets wide, so it is big enough for me. I also have 2 pallet creations at home. I also have a large supply of postal type sacks which I fill when the heap is stacked high, then I tip those in as and when. My leaf mould is created in old compost sacks and stacked along the back of the shed. I completely empty the heap during late winter and the lot goes onto the allotments and then I start again. Love compost! ;D Would like another heap, but have no room on the other allotment as it is totally over to planting.
I'll be emptying mine and putting the contents on the spuds any time now. I had planned to do it today but the tyre on my wheelbarrow needs pumping.