There’s an article in the January 2009 edition of Grow Your Own Magazine that deals with the extra waste we produce over Christmas. You can pretty much sum it up in one word – composting – which is hardly surprising for a gardening magazine. The slightly longer summary is that we should be composting uneaten leftovers and packaging, recycling our Christmas trees and turning excess sprouts into bubble and squeak.
As previously mentioned, I’m trying to compost more of our cardboard waste, so that I have plenty of compost next year. I have been adding it to my compost bins, but there’s a limit to how much they will hold.
Yesterday we had a new office chair delivered (a decent office chair is essential when you spend most of the day in it) and it came in an enormous cardboard box. This morning I have taken it down to the bottom of the garden, pegged it down firmly and started to fill it with the rest of our cardboard waste.
I’ve added some chicken manure pellets for nitrogen, and watered it all down with compost activator, and we’ll see how it goes. Worst case scenario, it turns into a big pile of mush which I have to scrape up and put in a compost bin :)
It even had a lid:
gail wrote:
...on Sat, Dec 6 '08 (1159 days ago)