Compost bin questions !

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Just fumarole one delivered today it’s bigger than I imagined !
Do I have to put chicken wire down first or just straight on to soil ? I dig that over first ? It’s quite hard poor soil there I’m busy removing the gravel
Can you put bread in it ? Seem to have an excess of sandwiches ? I know no protein but the children have allergies so it’s all dairy free

Someone also said about not team bags as they don’t decompose well is this true ?

Please excuse stupid questions !

Had one

I put absolutely everything into mine - cooked food, teabags, you name it.
Yup tea bags currently have polypropylene in them - you'll spot the remains when you dig the compost over

So long as you put regular supplies of weds in it makes good compost.
Bindweed and nasty weeds need to wilt to crispy (I use a bin lid in the sun for two days)
and then everything goes in
NOTHING food goes into my dustbins

PS mine just sits on an out of the way bit of veg bed, no wire or anything

I don’t put cooked food in mine. Especially meat as wouldnt want rats and rodents.

I put a bit of earth in now and then as I read it speeds up rotting process.

I put cardboard loo roll middies etc in. If compost is damp I put them in dry, if compost dry I put them in wet.

Grass cuttings shouldn’t be too much of the compost mix.

Straight on to earth.

I put citrus fruit in although some don’t.

Eggshells too. These don’t compost down brilliantly but it doesn’t matter and sharp bits deter slugs and snails when you use it on beds.

I bloody love my compost bins. I have 6

We have mice in ours - there are mice / rats in every garden anyway.
They make nests out of citrus peel - we find them when we dig it out !

Grass cuttings are used as mulch under raspberries and currants - saves risking the heap going sour

Thanks everyone great help
Do you shove a fork in and mix it up ? I’ll keep googling
Also cardboard I presume non printed on kind just plain brown
WAnt to get it right !

My DO is obsessed with his compost bin. He spends ages ripping up plain cardboard to put it it. He even bought some worms off the internet the other day.

DP*

We add tea bags, no issues.
We also add some cooked food items.. .but this is very small amounts, & never meat. Gets soaked with human urine (only the finest catalyst there is) so I don't think the tiny amount of food we add ends up having much appeal to critters.

Pukka, Aldi and Waitrose all do teabags without plastic, and PG tips are trialling.
I add a layer of mushroom compost every now and then. I’ve also got three bins, by the time the last one’s full, the first one is ready to spread.
Green caddy in the kitchen for veg bits, tissues, eggshells and teabags.
The sunnier the spot the better it degrades, and check in hot weather to see if it needs watering. No mice or rats, I’ve got resident grass snakes that hibernate in the bins.