ASTERN --14-1-- AHEAD
This page is the Introduction
to composting on Pentargon.
You can thumb through the album
by setting up a parade.
This page is the Introduction
to composting on Pentargon.
You can thumb through the album
by setting up a parade.
Airhead on Farceburk: 2016 ::
EM: Any tips on composting on a boat? spots where there are council bins to put it
Pogue to EM: Don't put compost in a bin. Recycle it and use it to grow flowers. Feel free to open a conversation with me. I've had a composter for four years. Are you one of the new Airhead purchasers?
GR: I've been putting mine in Meanwhile Gardens when I pass. What kind of composter do you have Pogue?
Pogue: Airhead! I like you are recycling. I am able to produce top class compost or my on board planters. I also produce potash on board from my Hampshire Heater!
EM: Wow Pogue wormery and all sounds great! What's an Airhead? Pretty new to boating so any tips appreciated!
Pogue: Airhead is the state of the art in composters used on ocean-going yachts. Mine was the first UK canal boat ever to have one (in 2012). In the past few weeks, I heard that a group of London boaters clubbed together to bulk order. Thought you might have been one!
Gr: I use a Separett and am looking into on-board veg scrap composting, but need to find something with a nice low profile so I can still pass under bridges. My partner and I had a wormery once, but I'm away too regularly to keep animals.
I still haven't figured out this comment. My brain insists in presenting a picture of a seven foot high composter. And worms that need herding? I really should have my doctor review my meds.
Pogue: Here is a fairly recent shot of work in progress. There is a third container out of shot, a robust 13" planter which allows the contents of the Airhead base to be totally transferred. The Airhead is 're-charged' with leaf mold debris from the towpath. This is done maybe once a month although it has been known to hang on for ten weeks or more. No chemicals, no lekky, no smells, and in four years ... no COST. My system has only ONE moving part. The agitator in the base bucket. The secret is the contents of the black bin which contain ordinary earth worms which can survive for MONTHS. Only three ingredients. Leaf mold, Andrex and No.2s. Sometimes a shovel of OLD horse manure (rich in earthworms!) but it's like once a year.
GR: Ah, you use regular earthworms? The system I'm experimenting with doesn't use any added ingredients besides 2's and paper and isn't meant to require agitation.
Pogue: My AirHead came with a fan which I found pointless and intrusive. I operate off-grid so I need to be TOTALLY independent ... even of batteries and running engines ...
POSTSCRIPT:
Composting needs 'agitation' from time to time: it is an aerobic process and bacterial operation prefers warmth and moisture. I learned my composting in the 50s and it from here I learned how to live "off-grid", before there ere grids to be lived off!
EM: Any tips on composting on a boat? spots where there are council bins to put it
Pogue to EM: Don't put compost in a bin. Recycle it and use it to grow flowers. Feel free to open a conversation with me. I've had a composter for four years. Are you one of the new Airhead purchasers?
GR: I've been putting mine in Meanwhile Gardens when I pass. What kind of composter do you have Pogue?
Pogue: Airhead! I like you are recycling. I am able to produce top class compost or my on board planters. I also produce potash on board from my Hampshire Heater!
EM: Wow Pogue wormery and all sounds great! What's an Airhead? Pretty new to boating so any tips appreciated!
Pogue: Airhead is the state of the art in composters used on ocean-going yachts. Mine was the first UK canal boat ever to have one (in 2012). In the past few weeks, I heard that a group of London boaters clubbed together to bulk order. Thought you might have been one!
Gr: I use a Separett and am looking into on-board veg scrap composting, but need to find something with a nice low profile so I can still pass under bridges. My partner and I had a wormery once, but I'm away too regularly to keep animals.
I still haven't figured out this comment. My brain insists in presenting a picture of a seven foot high composter. And worms that need herding? I really should have my doctor review my meds.
Pogue: Here is a fairly recent shot of work in progress. There is a third container out of shot, a robust 13" planter which allows the contents of the Airhead base to be totally transferred. The Airhead is 're-charged' with leaf mold debris from the towpath. This is done maybe once a month although it has been known to hang on for ten weeks or more. No chemicals, no lekky, no smells, and in four years ... no COST. My system has only ONE moving part. The agitator in the base bucket. The secret is the contents of the black bin which contain ordinary earth worms which can survive for MONTHS. Only three ingredients. Leaf mold, Andrex and No.2s. Sometimes a shovel of OLD horse manure (rich in earthworms!) but it's like once a year.
GR: Ah, you use regular earthworms? The system I'm experimenting with doesn't use any added ingredients besides 2's and paper and isn't meant to require agitation.
Pogue: My AirHead came with a fan which I found pointless and intrusive. I operate off-grid so I need to be TOTALLY independent ... even of batteries and running engines ...
POSTSCRIPT:
Composting needs 'agitation' from time to time: it is an aerobic process and bacterial operation prefers warmth and moisture. I learned my composting in the 50s and it from here I learned how to live "off-grid", before there ere grids to be lived off!
KEEP IT WARM
KEEP IT MOIST
OXYGENATE IT
TURN IT OVER
KEEP IT MOIST
OXYGENATE IT
TURN IT OVER
