Green Cone/anyone got one?

[BumbleB]

When we moved to this house last year we inherited a green cone composter. It was situated in the middle of a very full flowering area. We have since turned this area into a seperate vegetable area. We have left the green cone in place - its fitted tightly below soil level, and have been putting all of our kitchen scraps and waste into it.

As we do not have any instruction manuals we looked it up online and found the following Green Cone

I was wondering if anyone had one of these and if there is anything more we need to be aware of? will it fertilise the soil by filtering into the ground?
Thanks

[Two_Sheds]

I had a Green Cone in Brighton. It took meat, fish etc that normal composters don't, so was good for that.

Downsides:
you have to bury half of it in the ground - I was digging on stones with a hand trowel (!); you don't really get compost as such...most of the waste just turns liquid and drains away into the soil.

[BumbleB]

Yes, thats right, its great for being close at hand for all the kitchen scraps. We did not need to fit it but it sits great in the veg plot (I also use it as stool between tasks) I just wondered if it really enriches the soil ( the flowers were beautiful when we moved in) and we can look forward to great veggie crops :-)

[Two_Sheds]

Yes it will feed the soil,with whatever you put into it.

[BumbleB]

Oh thats great - we were right to site the veg patch there then :-)

[NOG]

I would want to know what they put in it before I used the ground for veg. Cos you can put animal poo in them.

[BumbleB]

Oh we do not have any animals, its not a dog loo, it is for recycling kitchen waste.

[NOG]

Did the previous owners have pets....Cos you can put amimal poo in them

[BumbleB]

I know what you mean because we wondered what it was when we first came across it.
No they did not have any pets either. I think they were very green people and liked the idea of efficient recycling as its like a food dustbin. I suppose it must feed the soil from below after the worms have finished their work. I looked it up online Green Cone but have not seen it in garden centres etc.