Comments on Growing The Home Garden: Gardening in the Home Landscape: My Simple Compost Solution

Steph, That's a great point about the removab...

2009-11-28T21:33:39.263-06:00

Steph,

That's a great point about the removable front. It does make it a lot easier to get access for turning or for removing compost.

Nancy,

I've seen the straw bale composters before. Great idea! It does take up a little more space though.

Lola,

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Kristin and Michael,

The tax records is a good one! I thought of using our shredded important papers for vermicomspoting. There's no chance anyone can piece together our financial documents after it's been through a worm!

Ginger,

Open bins seem to be the easiest and most function types. Once I get the time I'll put together the second bin and do the alternating like you describe!

Old jeans - that is very creative! We've tri...

2009-11-28T19:05:45.865-06:00

Old jeans - that is very creative!

We've tried the fancy enclosed bins, but they only work if you're willing to turn them regularly and check on the water content. I don't have time to do that, so two open wire bins are perfect for us. Once one really "gets going," I start adding things exclusively to the second bin so I can harvest the first bin without too much hassle (from sorting).

We composted our tax records last year. In turn we...

2009-11-28T08:06:09.637-06:00

We composted our tax records last year. In turn we applied the compost to the watermelon bed. The melons couldn't do our taxes afterwards but they sure were tastey.

Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family.

2009-11-25T16:48:18.221-06:00

Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family.

I compost the same way Dave. I have three that I b...

2009-11-25T14:23:10.661-06:00

I compost the same way Dave. I have three that I built from pressure treated 1x6's. All three keep going all year with no help from me. My bin is also not fancy and built rather sloppily too-square? Who knew?:) Anyhow, I just filled two bins up with banana trees and leaves to overfull. The third one is full of finished compost I am being stingy with. Trying to figure out where to put it so my other gardens don't get jeaulous. I never have enough. I don't turn mine and it takes about one year, but once you have it going you almost always have finished compost. Pure gold! Freecycle oftentimes has pallets for offer. I myself gave away several. Wished I knew you wanted some and I'd have saved them. Have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow.

Works perfectly, Dave! I think the most ingenius ...

2009-11-25T09:52:34.961-06:00

Works perfectly, Dave! I think the most ingenius "lazy compost bin" was one made of bales of straw, stacked one atop the other in a "U" shape. As most material was added, another bale of straw was added to the height. Eventually, even the straw broke down and it looked very easy to get at for turning, etc. But yours is brilliant and the price is sure right. :) Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

I, too, am a lazy composter. I have had a number o...

2009-11-24T21:57:49.743-06:00

I, too, am a lazy composter. I have had a number of store-bought bins, but they tend to encourage laziness as they force me to try to dig compost out the door at the base. No mean feat that!

http://freerangeturtle.blogspot.com/2009/05/compost-living-thing.html

I find that if I have full access to the compost (through a fully removable front panel, or removable stacking layers - Biostack), I'm more inclined to actually turn the compost more regularly AND have compost ready to use!

Thanks for your blog! Don't stop yet.