Where to put a compost bin?

Question

Is it ok to have it near the house?

Answer 1

A big warning here. please take note. do not have near to the house. the smell is discusting. i had mine near the house. the stench was vile. you couldnt go outside. put it down the bottom of the garden. have a jar or container in kitchen to put your tea bags in and eggsheels and what not then empty that on a regular basis. please dont put by the house

Answer 2

Up the garden is best. It will pong a bit in the summer months and if close to the house you will suffer. I have a small plastic bin in my kitchen which I put tea bags, and vegetable peelings etc into, then every day or so I put it into my compost bin. Also read up on what you can and can't put into them. Some things won't compost very well.

Answer 3

I placed mine on the concrete and it attracted a rat. a huge gray one that got here up the drain sniffing. I screamed and it went immediately bypass into opposite returned. If the concrete direction is on the brink of the abode, i might dodge putting it there. you may not truly make it rat data when you consider which you like ventilation slats to enable the warmth to construct (and that i under no circumstances placed cooked scraps in it, in basic terms uncooked.) After the rat incident, I have been given rid of the compost bin and have been given a working laptop or workstation virus bin truly. If I had £80 spare, i might purchase the Can O' Worms - real, worms do unlike onions and oranges yet they like each thing else, and there is no project having the bin on the brink of the abode. The composter could want for use for backyard waste - leaves and branches. What to do with the onion scraps and orange peel have not yet worked out.

Answer 4

You will have some odor that will not please some noses. However, if you turn often and maintain the bin carefully, you might get by with it. Mine is about 30-feet from the house behind the shade garden in a little fence...not to far to go after cooking to make a deposit to the pile, but far enough away to not offend. The key is maintenance. I make a "cone" in the middle of the pile, add the new "stuff" and cover. Then turn the pile each week, and/or water if in a dry spell.

Answer 5

yes that would be ok. remember to put on soil not concrete. and follow the instructions on the internet how to use it. the bacteria are not harmful, and needs to be a sunny site, as the warmer the bin is, the quicker the breakdown in the waste.in summer it rot down quicker of course. if you find a site and follow that you cant go wrong.

Answer 6

you can put it where you will use it most the people who complain about smell are putting the wrong things in the bin and probably too much of one thing just mix up the stuff you put into the bin and if it does start to smell add torn up cardboard and paper then mix it in this will help to dry it up it's the moisture that smells don't put in to much grass cuttings they do need mixing in this site gives more information

Answer 7

Depends, as long as it is not against the house you should be ok, but it really needs a sunny position and clearance on all 4 sides so the air can circulate around it.

Answer 8

Over the past 40 years all of mine have been near my kitchen door.

If it smells, attracts files or vermin then your not doing it correctly.

Answer 9

Probably not, the germs that they create could accidently be inhaled and or consumed.Its best to keep one outside near a shady area

Answer 10

as far away from house as possible