Hi everyone,
Hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm new to gardening and we inherited a half full plastic dalek composter from the previous tenants at our current place. Apparently the people from two years ago were pretty into gardening but the last lot weren't. I've been adding to it with a mix of greens and browns and it's now about 2/3 full. Today decided to try and give it a stir and see what was going on. The top 1/3 or so is loose and composting OK but the bottom 1/3 is a bit of a nightmare - some stuff has composted, but there's lot of sticky tape, a plastic bag, plastic bits and even a chicken bone in there and it's compacted so I can't stir it. What should I do? I took out all the rubbish I could get to, as well as a whole load of conifer bits which had dried out but I didn't want to mix back in. I'd really like to avoid taking the dalek off and going through it as it's in a confined space round the side of the house (which, incidentally, probably only gets an hour of sun per day, probably doesn't help).
Thanks!
Hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm new to gardening and we inherited a half full plastic dalek composter from the previous tenants at our current place. Apparently the people from two years ago were pretty into gardening but the last lot weren't. I've been adding to it with a mix of greens and browns and it's now about 2/3 full. Today decided to try and give it a stir and see what was going on. The top 1/3 or so is loose and composting OK but the bottom 1/3 is a bit of a nightmare - some stuff has composted, but there's lot of sticky tape, a plastic bag, plastic bits and even a chicken bone in there and it's compacted so I can't stir it. What should I do? I took out all the rubbish I could get to, as well as a whole load of conifer bits which had dried out but I didn't want to mix back in. I'd really like to avoid taking the dalek off and going through it as it's in a confined space round the side of the house (which, incidentally, probably only gets an hour of sun per day, probably doesn't help).
Thanks!
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