{"id":20089,"date":"2019-07-12T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20089"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:08:16","slug":"successful-upgrade-to-my-compost-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/successful-upgrade-to-my-compost-bins\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Upgrade to My Compost Bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can see photographs of my former compost bins in an\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/autumn-compost-top-ten-tips\/\">old 2014 post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just updated the introduction as follows &#8216;5 years ago our council\u00c2\u00a0 provided a brown bin for garden waste. Shortly after they introduced a charge to have the bin emptied.\u00c2\u00a0 Larger branches, gnarled roots and diseased wood\u00c2\u00a0 now goes in this bin&#8217;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20090\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-003-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-003-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-003-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Improved Bins for Better Compost<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping the heat of decomposition within the pile speeds up my composting.<\/li>\n<li>A large bin helps me keep the garden tidier.<\/li>\n<li>I am encouraged to make more compost and tip far less.<\/li>\n<li>Green household waste also goes in the new bins.<\/li>\n<li>The bins content tends to get a bit dry despite the rain drops you see. So I add water and comfrey leaves\/juice.<\/li>\n<li>The lower openings intended for shoveling out the compost tend to get a bit clogged and thus I empty by opening the whole side.<\/li>\n<li>The black bin is smaller and was bought for slow to rot rubbish and composting\/rotting down leaves. This years luxuriant growth has taken over and the more I spread compost the more compost I generate (Thanks Les Barker)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20091\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-007-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-007-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-007-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/compost-bobby-007-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can see photographs of my former compost bins in an\u00c2\u00a0 old 2014 post I just updated the introduction as follows &#8216;5 years ago our council\u00c2\u00a0 provided a brown bin for garden waste. Shortly after they introduced a charge to have the bin emptied.\u00c2\u00a0 Larger branches, gnarled roots and diseased wood\u00c2\u00a0 now goes in this bin&#8217;. Improved Bins for Better Compost Keeping the heat of decomposition within the pile speeds up my composting. A large bin helps me keep the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/successful-upgrade-to-my-compost-bins\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20094,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089\/revisions\/20094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}