Horticultural: Trench composting saves the day
Horticultural: Trench composting saves the day: "Trench composting saves the day
As fellow composter Simon Sherlock pointed out in the comments to my previous post, it will be some time before my new worm composter can take all my kitchen waste. Add too much in the early stages and the worms won't be able to eat it before some of the stuff putrefies, making the worms unhappy, and possibly dead.
I forgot to say earlier that my solution to the excess kitchen waste problem, now that my allotment site has banned it from compost heaps, is trench composting.
I am assuming the powers that be won't object because in trench composting, the waste is buried so isn't a food source for vermin. In fact this composting method is, aside from the effort of digging a hole, the easiest job in the world: no equipment necessary, and once it's in the hole you can forget about the waste. And it's a great way to prepare an area for growing 'hungry' crops such as beans and squash."
As fellow composter Simon Sherlock pointed out in the comments to my previous post, it will be some time before my new worm composter can take all my kitchen waste. Add too much in the early stages and the worms won't be able to eat it before some of the stuff putrefies, making the worms unhappy, and possibly dead.
I forgot to say earlier that my solution to the excess kitchen waste problem, now that my allotment site has banned it from compost heaps, is trench composting.
I am assuming the powers that be won't object because in trench composting, the waste is buried so isn't a food source for vermin. In fact this composting method is, aside from the effort of digging a hole, the easiest job in the world: no equipment necessary, and once it's in the hole you can forget about the waste. And it's a great way to prepare an area for growing 'hungry' crops such as beans and squash."
posted by Adrian Eyre at 2:50 PM
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