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Compost bin size for large garden

Does anyone have an idea of roughly how big a compost bay should be per acre of garden?

Have a client whose previous gardener has not been composting, but burning all waste instead, and they are going to switch to composting bays, but the garden is huge - 8 acres, mostly grass but perhaps two-three acres planted up all told, lots of hedging, so a decently sized composting system needs to be in place. Just wondered if there is a general rule to this kind of thing?

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  • At one victorian property we have 4 heaps, each 2.4m cubed. It's 2.5 acres with large herbaceous, mature arboretum, lawns and yew everywhere. 

    Could probably use 2 more but can survive with 4.

    If i mulch mowed 4 would be ample.

     

    At another property just over an acre of lawns, beds and shrubs. There are 2 bays at 1.5m square by 1.2m high, and a 3mx1.5x1.2 bay for dumping grass and leaves before mincing in layers on the heaps.

    Another 3 acre site has 4 bays 1.2m cubed but a lot of land is orchard that is mown irregular.

     

    I reckon 2.4m cubed per acre minimum but there are variables such as mulch mowing, shredding hedge cuttings or saving woodchip from tree works.

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    1 garden I look after is 1.5 acres with many beech trees and sycamore and herbaceous boarders aswell as the grass, I use 5 bays of 14ft x 6ft X 2.5ft, I use 3 for 1 season as 2 are composting down and then in winter empty the 2 on the boarders and then transfer the 3 into the 2 but they are well heaped up but do compost down over the season.

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