Ziggy Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I went to add some stuff to the composter the other day... it's one of these cylinder ones on a stand, that you have to tumble a few times each day... well with the heavy rains the last few weeks, I have discovered that the cylinder is not at all water tight... the composter itself is made up of four section slotted together, and obviously rain has been leaking through the joints... as a result, the stuff in there has turned into a very sticky, soaked mess... with accompanying wet rotten fragrance... While thinking of adding some dry absorbant stuff to the composter, like shredded cardboard and hemcore, I decided, rather absent-mindedly to check that the little plastic mesh think at the bottom of it was not blocked, as that's how excess liquid gets drained off... so I tumbled the thing upside down, and slowly undid the nut that holds the screw in place, to pull off the mesh and check it... it dawned on me, just a second too late, that the screw would fall inside the composter, and so did the other half of the draining element... needless to say, I spent the next half an hour trying to retrieve the screw and plastic bit from inside a stinking bin, juggling it so as to not let too much of it fall off, and I ended totally covered in the stuff... never before did a shower and thorough scrub feel so needed, and clothes thrown instantly into a hot cycle washing machine... It will teach me to let my mind wander a thousand miles away while dismantling a composter!!! My efforts to go green are turning very smelly indeed... On the upper side, my worms in the my wormery are looking healthy and active again... nice, nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Egluntyne Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Oh dear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Ziggy I'm laughing with you, not at you, honest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Oooops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I'm glad I am not the only one who always realises a split-second AFTER they've done something like that ... poor you! It's not easy being green, is it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Oh, that did make me laugh! I was trying to put together yet another composter from the council at the weekend - it was trouble from the start as it had warped a bit It took Rosie and i ages to kick and shove it together. My wormery is going strong too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 It took Rosie and i ages to kick and shove it together. So unfair... I get smelly and others get fit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Try bunging some hemcore complete with chicken poo in with it - do layers of wet stuff and then dry stuff, that should sort it out. One ot the ladies who attended my Hen Party at the weekend had a similar problem and we ended up having a composting workshop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...