Anyone ever try making a compost pit in a large container? I am growing runner beans next year, and keep seeing suggestions of planting them over a bean trench for best results. I garden on a tiny square of cement just outside my front door, and have no room for a compost bin.. and I hate seeing all my veg scraps going off to the council to compost every week when I could be benefiting from them.
The beans will be grown in large plastic bins, drilled bottoms for good drainage. I was thinking of putting a good four or five inches of used multi-purpose compost in the bottom, then a thin layer of easy to compost things like carrot and potato pealing, egg shells, tea bags, etc. I would then pile up another three inches of soil and put in some more scraps a few days later, then fill up the container leaving a few inches at the top to add fresh multi-purpose compost just before planting. Obviously you need friendly worms and bacteria to do the composting, but I know there are worms in my used compost.. and I can only assume the bacteria is probably there as well.
Anyone try this before?
The beans will be grown in large plastic bins, drilled bottoms for good drainage. I was thinking of putting a good four or five inches of used multi-purpose compost in the bottom, then a thin layer of easy to compost things like carrot and potato pealing, egg shells, tea bags, etc. I would then pile up another three inches of soil and put in some more scraps a few days later, then fill up the container leaving a few inches at the top to add fresh multi-purpose compost just before planting. Obviously you need friendly worms and bacteria to do the composting, but I know there are worms in my used compost.. and I can only assume the bacteria is probably there as well.
Anyone try this before?
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