Bee Hive Composter
24" x 24" £145
Hand made wooden Beehive composter using ethically-sourced timber from sustainable regions.
Shown here painted with Jasmine and Forget me Not shades paint by Cuprinol
linen lace and patchwork
14 HIGHCLIFF ROAD. SOUTH BENFLEET . ESSEX . SS7 1NQ . UK.
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In this age of recycling I can't think of any one activity more satisfying than recycling kitchen and garden waste. but the compost bins on offer from garden centres are plasticky, ugly and not something I want on display. Having given it some thought, this is our take on the wooden Bee hive Composter. I love colour and design as you may well have realised on visiting my web-site, home and garden. So wanted this theme to continue in the garden. And, no more lugging - expensive - council green waste refuse bags out to the bin men. This is a good source of compost.
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We use pressure- treated ethically-sourced timber for our hand-crafted Beehive Composters made by local skilled carpenters. Beehive composters are available in: Natural (unpainted) or hand-painted on the outside with two coats of Cuprinol 'Garden Shades' in any of the shade shown below or for a lovely custom seaside theme why not have stripes. We have the basic model or a really pretty faux Victorian model with routing and . |
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Bee Hive Composter 24" x 24" £145 Hand made wooden Beehive composter using ethically-sourced timber from sustainable regions. Shown here painted with Jasmine and Forget me Not shades paint by Cuprinol |
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| What you can compost | What you can't compost |
| Lawn mowings | Coke and Coal ash (poisonous for the soil) |
| Old flowers | Food leftovers (attract vermin) |
| Cardboard torn into small pieces | Meat |
| Egg boxes and toilet roll middles | Dairy products |
| Soft annual weeds | Thick branches (macerate and use for mulch) |
| Wood ash | Disposable nappies |
| Eggshells | Faeces |
| Sawdust | Perennial weeds |
| Shredded paper | Diseased plants |
| Teabags and coffee grounds | |
| Newspaper torn into pieces | |
| Straw | |
| Pet bedding | |
| Horse manure | |
| Hedge trimmings |
Anything can be composted, though not meat or bread as they encourage vermin and foxes - or dairy products with the exception of egg-shells. Lawn mowings, leaves, annual weeds, hedge clippings, old flowers. Anything that was once living will compost, but some items are best avoided. For best results, use a mixture of types of ingredient interspersed with layers of torn newpaper, toilet roll middles to create air. make sure the composter is sited on bare earth. a good tip to speed the composting process is to put a piece of old carpet over the top to encourage worms and hasten the composting process.
The right balance is something learnt by experience, but a rough guide is to use equal amounts by volume of greens and browns (see below). Some things, like grass mowings and soft young weeds, rot quickly. They work as 'activators', getting the composting started, but on their own will decay to a smelly mess. Older and tougher plant material is slower to rot but gives body to the finished compost - and usually makes up the bulk of a compost heap. Woody items decay very slowly; they are best chopped or shredded first, where appropriate.
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