Earthmaker compost bin good or gimmick?

 

There is an advert in the RHS magazine for an Earthmaker compost bin.
It's a peculiar shape and advertises with a bit of scientific
explanation.
Website is
www.earthmaker.co.uk

is it an improvement on the normal design or just a gimmick? I have a
lot of shredding to do in the next few weeks and it would be nice to put
it in a new bin as all mine are currently full up. Don't want to put too
much on the garden as mulch until the end of the summer as things dry
out very quickly.

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

 

says...

Well it will work, but so will a black dalek at £5, Thought £129 was
outrageous. I would buy 3 or 4 standard bins, however clever it is the
volume at the top was not very large and I suspect you would fill it
within an hour of starting your shredding.
(This time of year I shred into bags and stuff round the back of things
till I start cutting back in autumn and can see the ground again!)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

 



Thought it might be over the top Charlie, thanks for the input.
I have been trying to clear the rotten pallets from the back of the
garden , (they sued to be in the form of three huge bins but sadly
decomposed!)
The two gardens at the back dump all their waste at the bottom of their
plots but this means that they are about 4 foot higher than mine!
They also have a lot of ivy left to grow up into the trees and what were
hawthorn hedges and this would creep into my bins if i don't use a solid
barrier such as a plastic or wooden frame.

I intended to clear everything flat at the bag, then put down weed
suppressant and gravel and then put the new bins on top so that they
have a gap from the hedge and I can hack back the ivy easily.

At the moment I have sited my five bins one to a deep bed so that I will
only have to lift the bin and disgorge the contents each time :)
Having cut the hedges and pruning back the shrubs I'll have tons of
shredding so I need a new bin.

Think plastic bags might be an idea but can get torn if rats or dogs
after rats start tearing at them:)

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

 

says...

If its just shreddings they are not interested. I use old compost bags
not bin bags they are not strong enough, and I have some black shade
netting I can drap over them if they can be seen :~)
Since the last post I have done some shredding it took 13 mins to fill a
bin! (mostly forsythia apple and sycamore)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

 


Janet Tweedy;807734 Wrote:

Janet If you buy your gravel in 1 ton bags, they make good compost
bags. Just
fill them up and put old carpet or something over them.




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Granity