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graham_h_miller · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:24 pm Post subject: Compost question

Now I've got a working heap, what do I do with my kitchen waste? I'm tempted to bury it right in the middle next time I turn it over, but I don't want to upset the system working. I also have another heap that I can stack stuff onto before I do another proper layered one...

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Carrot muncher · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject:

How about making a runner bean trench?

I usually dig a trench around now and fill it with kitchen waste for a couple of months then cover with soil before planting beans out in May.
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kddevon · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2182 Location: North Devon

There's cold composting and hot composting.

In hot composting you make a huge pile of compostable stuff all at once. It heats up and turns to compost quite quickly. It sounds like this is what you've got 'cooking' at the moment. I wouldn't add anything to it now.

I'd start a new pile and add to it until your first lot has cooked and can be spread on the garden.

I hope this makes sense!

The runner bean trench is a good idea too.

MrsL · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject:

Two heaps - one working well, one starting off. By the time you're using the working-well-now-one, the new one will take its place and so on ad inficompostnitum......................
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