John
I started some new compost bins from scratch last spring to up the amounts produced annually to a level capable of replenishing a 50sqm growing area.
By using a mixture of cardboard picked up for free at garden centre skips, newpapers we buy daily, kitchen vegetable waste, grass cuttings and comfrey leaves from plants we planted out the previous summer, we generated about 0.5 cubic metres of material pretty well rotted which then went into green plastic bins over winter to be ready for this year. It was, it has to be said, a warm summer last year which may have accelerated the overall process.
The green manure experiment I’m going to try this year is growing beans up through a cover crop of clover, which has been done successfully in the past by very good market gardeners in Henley-on-Thames…….