Compost bin advice

[jojosapphire]

Hi
I'm planning a kitchen garden for next year. No pint starting this year as we are having a extention at some point this year so lots of the garden will be wrecked!
So i was thinking it could be an advantage to start a compost bin ready for next years raised beds? What kind do you reccomend (on a tight budget due to extention) wooden / plastic etc. It will probably need to be moved at some point if that makes a difference..

I have a Big Pig composter. It's like a barrel on legs and you turn it to make the compost decompose more quickly. Because it's on legs you can move it around if you need to. I don't know if they're still around, we've had ours for at least five years. I also don't know what they cost as it was a present. So, not all that helpful really, sorry.

I have the bog standard plastic dalek. You can buy them cheap from your local council in most areas - think they're usually £20 or so.

Thank you will call the morning as nothing on their website. Not sure I'm ready to invest in a spinning one just yet and wont really need any compost for a year so slow is fine. Im thinking fill it up then when most of its ready use it and then move it to its permanent position... I did have an idea in the night (as you do) that as our council are changing over from green bags (made like tarpaulin) to a freen weelie bin that perhaps i could use one of our green bags as a tempory compost heap... One has a hole in the bottom already, would i need to cover the top to stop rain getting in? Though wil probably need something larger by Autumn as we will have a lot of apple leaves and windfalls that im thonking would be good to compost. We sent off at least 4 bags full as green waste last year!

The rotating ones are expensive, but I bought mine from ebay from someone local, for £35 (which I think is just under half of the retail price). It's been amazing. Stuff composts really fast and I still haven't managed to fill it up despite composting EVERYTHING (family of 3 using it for 8 months) because stuff just decomposes and shrinks down.

I also have a basic green bin and a black bin, which we inherited in the garden, both of which are half-filled. I'm struggling to find the motivation to find a large stick and turn the contents. I'm sure they're not as well rotted as the rotating bin.

Are you all really good at stirring the contents of the stationary bins? I've got 4, and must confess my reason for not stirring the contents..... I don't want to risk hurting the bugs who are kindly mulching it down for me! How pathetic is that? I sound like a total hippy Jain, when actually I'm not even a veggie. I just feel for the slugs, snails, worms and ants who live in there and are chomping through it all.