General Chat

I think it is just to get rid of left-over food.

Ours would have stayed put had we not wanted the space for something else.

Discovering the enriched soil was a bonus. I suppose it is the same as dung really. Food that has been digested only this was by enzymes in the soil and not the human alimentary canal. We sometimes put a bit of the content of the cat's dirt box in as well. that is only chick crumbs and pussy dung.

Is the idea of this digester cone to produce compost or improve the soil around it? I had never heard of them before

We moved because we thought we would like to use the space but were very surprised to find how rich the soil looked and the abundance of worms.

It did stink!

I grew up in a cottage with a bucket lavatory that was emptied into a pit up the garden. When that had rotted a few years with straw, Fred would dig it into the garden.

The smell was very reminiscent of that.

we got one down behind the chicken house dont get anything from what we put in but saves all that smell of rotting cooked food when normal bins arent collected for a fortnight mind have put the chickens in once they have pegged it got no room to bury them in garden with all the other pets that are under the grass.

Did look good when hubby was digging the original hole wonder what the neighbours thought he was ging to bury.

I expect ours had a grant from somebody else or they had some money to use up before the next budget otherwise they would not get as much next time.

Sharon thanks for the explanation..

Our council are that tight fisted they would pay for anything like that....

Not really big enough which is why we couldn't get Fred in.

The only way you could do it is to put her in with her head sticking out and that would defeat the object.

Hmmm! no trace at all?


must get one for the M I L.


Bob

It is a recycling thing that our council was giving away a few years ago.

You know those conical sort of washing baskets?

Well, you dig a hole and sink a thing like that in the ground. Then there is a similar thing without any holes that you invert above it. It has a lid.

You put all your bits of cooked left-overs and bones and things in there. They send you some enzyme powder that you put in and the enzymes are supposed to digest what is in there.

I always told Fred that was where he was going, head first with his legs sticking out to grow runner beans up.

We have put a few bones and some dead rats in ours and there was no trace of them.

think its one of they dustbin thingy's for putting your waste vegetation in to make compost

Sharon,,

I don;'t even know what a Digester Cone is or what you use it for...

Ignoramus that I am.... :-D

We have had one for a few years quite close to the back door in a growing bed. It was taking up space and we don't throw much away so we decided it might as well go in the dark bit behind the shed.

Fred's mate, who does the garden, dug it up and there was a lovely bit of earth beneath it, full of worms.

Considering our glut of marrows, we thought it better not to grow them in there next year but wondered if we should grow pumpkins which we could, maybe, let out as holiday homes.