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Juice is evaporating?Updated a month ago

Juice is evaporating?

If you are not getting much liquid it may be evaporating before you get a chance to use it. In this case you can place a suitable jug or bottle under the floor to catch the juice. Placing a funnel in the neck of a bottle will help catch the juice.


Using a small jug to catch liquid as it drains from the bin.

No Juice?

If you have started you hungry bin with commercial compost mix or potting mix, it can take a while for the compost to become fully saturated, and the liquid to start running from the hungry bin. You can help the process along by sprinkling a little water from a watering can slowly over a couple of days until there is juice draining from the hungry bin.

Adding water to a freshly started hungry bin to ensure the bedding is fully saturated.

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