Community › Community › General Gardening › Sowing and Growing › Garlic – to fleece or not to fleece › Insulated compost bin
Hi Compostpope
I bought a hotbin from http://www.hotbincomposting.com/ To its credit it works well. Today the external temperature was -5C at 0700 yet the Hotbin was working at 65C. It takes all our food waste (cooked and uncooked) and in two/three months produces a workable mulch. A further four weeks in a normal bin produces a good quality compost.
Downside to it is that it is relatively small, and it is expensive for what it is. I have thought about building one for other waste and only got as far as thinking that structural insulated panels (low U value and the sort used in Passivhaus developments) would be the way to go.
However for our garden the most cost effective route would be to expand the wormery for food waste and continue with the Berkeley type hotcomposting for general garden waste.
Interested to know how others have approached this – I am only 6 months into Charles’ no dig approach, so a complete novice.
Best
Gareth