Commercial Composter
This fully automatic composting machine is designed to meet high expectations on hygiene and reliability.
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Slugs in compost heap. Good or bad?
I have a green plastic composter, with worms and ants.
I have been advised that the ants make the compost finer, and also add some nutrients to the soil.
However, slugs have taken up residency too. Is this good or bad??
To make good compost, you need to empty out your composter and turn the contents before putting it all back. The trouble with plastic ‘dalek’ composters is that it’s harder to do this than if you have an open-topped cubic one. Turning the compost lets air in, and this is good because oxygen is necessary to the decomposition process. Also, it helps to turn the stuff that was on the outside of the heap to the inside, so it gets a fair share of heat and moisture. If you have an established colony of ants, as well as the slugs, you evidently haven’t been doing this, and you can pick out the slugs whilst turning the heap. Get a big sheet of plastic and empty out the heap. Give it a good mixing and pile it back in. You can use any good stuff which may be at the bottom of the heap – I agree about not spreading the slugs’ eggs, but probably the stuff at the bottom would be OK as it’s been down below the level where they might have been laying.
Plastic composters are often sold as the ‘easy’ answer to making effortless compost – ‘you put the stuff in at the top and lovely compost comes out of the bottom in no time’ – but that’s just not so if you understand the compost-making process. I’d get rid of the plastic thing and get a proper 2-compartment cubic version. Cover it with bubble-wrap to keep the warmth in the heap, without getting mould spores which could damage your lungs, as carpet does. When it heats up in spring, turn the first heap into the second compartment and you’ll get lovely sweet compost with no ants or slugs.
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Wonderful World Of Compost
A 12th grade World Geography project that is funny as hell.
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This is a huge pile of free mulch for composting that the tree cutters give way for free! It is excellent fill, breaks down rapidly and produces beautiful rich soil. One pile releases several thousand BTU’s of heat over the decomposition process.
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Directions on how to build a smaller plastic bin type composter using fishing worms and compostables?
I want to start composting on a small scale. I need directions on how to build an under the counter composter out of a small plastic bin using fishing worms and compostables…
Is there a website I can get this information from?
http://www.sierraclub.org/e-files/worm_bins.asp
up at the top of your screen, just type WORM BIN and you will get a number of sites.
I have a worm bin outside. We sent away for a box of worms when we set up our bin. We have so many worms. We only put certain kinds of stuff in the bin. No meat products, or oil, or table scraps. We only use fresh vegetable and fruit peels and pulp type stuff — stuff which is a by product of our kitchen prep work. Our worms love mango skins and pineapple. But I cut the pineapple into smaller pieces so it can be digested faster.
The table scraps and left over food we put in the city’s yard clipping recycling bin. Since they ask for the restaurant and home kitchen refuse, I think that the city probably uses the chemical composting method.
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