From wildflower meadow to compost

From wildflower meadow to compost with the HOTBIN

I have been making compost since the mid-1980s. I absolutely love making it, although I have found it more physical nowadays! From composting crematorium flowers to a weed and vegetable compost bin at the National Trust’s Speke Hall, Liverpool. Along with many other places dotted around the North West.

To enthuse others to give it a go I wrote an article “The Life in a compost heap” and designed an award-winning wormery. This is a different form of compost making which in the above compost bin when heating up whilst composting, worms would not survive. Once the heat has dissipated they can. I even wrote a book about worm composting!

All of my compost goes into my organic raised no-dig beds

One of the best commercial bins I used was if memory serves me right, the Hot Rotter. Basically, it was four sheets of polystyrene, covered in thick black plastic and tied together with cords with a lid on top. If I was to design a compost bin, it would be similar to the HOTBIN, but with a few modifications. The latest model MK2 now has a leachate collection system which would have been one of the modifications I would have made. Yep, I do like making compost!