Making Your Own Compost Bin - Being Green Fingered

If you haven’t got round to being green fingered and want to get started, why not begin by making your own compost? These helpful tips will guide you on how to make your own compost bin and compost that your plants will love.

The best thing about being self sufficient is that it is easy and simple to do.

Building a compost bin:

1.       One of the easiest and cheapest ways to build a compost bin is to build it from wooden pallets. However, if there isn’t enough wood in the garden for you to use, try a shopping retailer or warehouse, most are happy to give away or charge very little for them.

2.       Use plastic ties to hold the planks together and form a box for your compost. It is usually advised to make new compost bins every two years as they compost themselves as well.

Of course if you don’t want to build a compost bin yourself you can always buy a pre-made composter to get you started.

Making your own compost bin

So what should you put into your compost mix?

• Try a 50:50 mix of green and brown products from your garden and add grass cuttings and prunings from shrubs and trees, including twigs, but avoid perennial weeds.
• Do not add any cooked food, meat or poultry.
• From your kitchen, regularly fill a caddy with fruit and vegetable peelings, eggshells, tea bags, toilet roll tubes and cereal boxes.
• Ensure that any infested or diseased material is omitted.

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