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Have any city-dwellers successfully composted?

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InertPotato · 25/09/2018 19:46

If so, can you tell me about it?

You have a kitchen bin that you dump into a garden bin weekly, and put worms in the garden one, and mix it around periodically....?

Any help?

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BackforGood · 26/09/2018 00:27

Yes,I have for years. Don't do much to it. Have never 'conciously' put worm in - they found their own way in.

Mine looks like an overgrown dustbin but there is no base to it (I suspect this is where the first worms came from) and it has a little 'door' at the bottom you get the compost out from.
You take the lid off and tip in the compost either when your compost pot from the kitchen is full, or, more often in the summer, to preven those little fruit flies hanging about.
I have a lidded tub in the kitchen.

Things to put in :
raw veg peelings
fruit (including it has gone off, but don't put too much citrus in as the peel never breaks down)
eggshells
end bits of salad
tea bags / leaves
coffee bits (you can often take a scoop or bagful from coffee shops if you want)
hair - human and I believe animal (don't have pets myself, but do have a mobile hairdresser, so put the hair in after a haircut
some grass - but not tons of heavy wet grass at a time
shredded paper, or "rough" card (like the holders for cups from McDs / sick bowls from hospital)

Don't put in:
anything with gravy / sauce / dressing on
cooked food
meat
'shiney' paper or card

I find it just 'gets on with it', and I don't really do anything to it, other than using it.

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