Apparently the best place for a slugs and snails in the garden is a compost bin. Nice and warm and cosy I must say. You feed me lots of nice green waste to munch my way through and me and my fellow decomposers (micro-organisms, fungi and assorted insects - you can tell a snail by his friends) will get on with the job of helping it all to rot. Which is just what you want of course. Free, crumbly compost to enrich your soil and improve it's structure.
Well, what do you need besides a friendly and willing snail? You need a wooden compost bin. In fact two or three wooden compost bins would be even better, then you can really get into the swing of turning and aerating and while you're waiting for one compost heap to cook you can start adding waste to another. Perfect. Make sure your wooden compost bin is sourced from sustainable forests and woodlands though won't you, we don't want to be reckless with this beautiful planet.
Now you got to add stuff. I like the odd outer lettuce leaf if you don't mind, but all sorts of kitchen and garden waste can be added to your bin. Try to aim for a mix of green and brown waste. Green waste consists of kitchen peelings, annual weeds, nettles and comfrey (no roots whatsoever though you get it?) seaweed and sappy hedge prunings. Brown waste consists of cardboard, shredded paper, egg boxes, straw, woody prunings and fallen, dried leaves.
Now make sure you mix it all up thoroughly and give it all a good turn every so often. All you have to do is sit and wait while me and my mates get on with the hard work!
tiffany lighting
Easy House Remodeling
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