The garden composter,
a planted bed that composts
The ABC composter at the centre, a planter all around it. Same mechanism, same capacity: what changes is what people see.
- The compost it produces feeds the planting directly
- Equipment that reads as furniture, not as a plant room
- 450 L capacity, the same as the composter on its own
The principle
The same machine, dressed as a planted bed
The garden composter is not a different product: it is the ABC composter, ringed by a circular planter. The ABC composter aerates and mixes in exactly the same way.
What changes
A circular planter, all around the composter
The planter is built into the structure and is filled with soil. A transfer grille lets the liquid from the compost be absorbed by that soil: it gradually enriches itself with nutrients, with no handling and no special watering.
- A complete loop. Food waste becomes the compost for the planting beside it.
- An object people accept. Nobody mistakes it for a waste container.
- A teaching aid. An attractive illustration of the living cycle.
What does not change
Aeration, mixing, emptying: identical
The perforated aeration chimney aerates the material, the mixing screw mixes it by crank, the mature compost comes out at the bottom. Two minutes a week, just like the composter on its own.
- 450 L capacity. The composter is the same one.
- Emptied every 1 to 12 months. Depending on your volumes.
In brief
The essentials, before you choose
Who it is for
When the equipment has to be seen
The garden composter comes into its own wherever the composter is in public view, and has to be welcomed rather than tolerated.
Local authorities
Community composting areas open to residents, municipal lawns, the surroundings of public buildings.
Campuses
School and university grounds, where the installation also serves to explain.
Head offices and corporate campuses
Green spaces, terraces and walkways in front of buildings.
Healthcare and residential care
Courtyards and gardens where residents walk.
Getting started
A bed built up in layers
The planter is filled in alternating layers, like a lasagne: the bulking material drains, the potting soil feeds. It is assembled on installation day, and never has to be done again.
- A thick layer of bulking material at the bottom, to drain.
- Potting soil against the holes in the composter, where the liquid comes out.
- Alternate bulking material and potting soil up to the top of the planter.
- Finish with potting soil, ready to plant.
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01 Place the planter around the ABC composter.
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02 Lay down a layer of bulking material.
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03 Cover it with a thick layer of potting soil, then repeat.
A reference
150 garden composters for a single local authority
The Seine-Eure local authority equipped its member towns: series production in our workshop in northern France, delivery by full lorry loads, then installation and commissioning site by site alongside the local staff.
Our installations
Garden composters already in place
Every photograph comes from a site we have equipped.
Documentation
The garden composter’s documents, freely available
The datasheet and the bed filling guide, exactly as we give them to our customers. Two one-page PDFs.
Renting it
It is rented, like the composter on its own
The same package as the ABC composter, at a different rent: 129 € excl. VAT a month, with the bulking material, the awareness kit, the training and the maintenance. And if nobody on site is to handle the mature compost, its removal is arranged with the local operator of your choice.
A planter all around it, 450 litres inside. Nobody guesses it is a composter.
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Tell us where you would like to install it and what you produce: we will tell you whether the garden composter is the right choice, and what it costs.