I've knocked myself up a compost bin today from four old shipping pallets donated by the farmer next door. So far they're just tied together into a square with twine so they'll come apart again easily enough if required. A couple of the pallets have quite big 50mm gaps between the planks and I'm wondering if this is a bit big for keeping both the contents and the heat in for best results, especially once the stuff has broken down into powder and might just fall out through the gaps. There's also a couple of spare pallets so I suppose I could in extremis lever up the planks from the two pallets in question and rebuild them without gaps using extra planks from the spare pallets. Or am I just making work for myself for no good reason?
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9 years ago