COMPACT COMPOST TUMBLER(Keywords: COMPACT COMPOST TUMBLER, build compost pile, starting compost pile, kitchen compost containers )
Aerobic composting (fully oxygenated) is faster, cleaner, has no smell, and is more environmentally friendly. The tumbler supplies sufficient oxygen for fully aerobic composting. It's a neat gadget. The downside is that it's expensive, and will provide only very limited amounts of compost.
Fill it with all your kitchen waste, potato peels, banana skins, watermelon skins... raw stuff only. Egg shells...
COMPACT COMPOST TUMBLER
COMPOST BUGS
Don't you love all those colours? In English with a 'u'! They are so vibrant, whites and yellows and reds and blacks, actually much better than my photo. Nature is just wonderful the way a fungus will attack wood and render it into the finest black compost. Unless you're also a beekeeper. Those fungi attack the hives too. Now we dip them in hot wax instead of painting. Searching for something specific? Say, " EASY SOUP RECIPES ". Just type it in here...  Custom Search
I say isn't nature wonderful? What I really mean is, the good Lord made them all, isn't He wonderful? When I'm busy in the garden, it's a good time to commune with Him, wallow a bit in his love for me, and enjoy the beauty of His creation. I get some flack sometimes when I wax too strongly on the love of Almighty God for each and everyone of us. The way you Christians bring religion into everything, even Christmas! Well, you see, I believe in being a Christian without being religious. God doesn't just live in cathedrals... "Can't you see Creation as you call it is just a series of random events, coupled with Darwinian evolution?" Well, actually, no I can't. To believe that those fungi came about by chance is like believing that my watch was made by a flash of lightning, the right ingredients and hey presto, a watch. My Seiko was created by a clever Swiss man. And those fungi... the Good Lord made them all! There's none so blind as they who WILL not see.
"Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw." Henry David Thoreau
COMPOSTING LOGS AND STICKSJust as you can make compost from grass mowings and general waste from the garden and kitchen, so you can make it from much larger sticks and logs. Starting compost pile only takes a day of hard labour! but it takes considerably longer to produce fine well-rotted compost than making a compost pile out of grass cuttings and kitchen waste.This is only for those priviledged to have a large garden, with a quiet corner where you can make a timber compost heap that you can leave for a year or two. Longer if the logs are larger.
JUNGLEMy apiary became seriously over grown during our seven year sojourn in the Netherlands. See what I mean... seven years ago this was a beautiful apiary with 25 beehives. Dangerous African bees, Apis mellifera Scutellata, not to be messed with. So before bringing in new colonies, this area has to be completely cleared. These sticks from a liquid amber that we had pollarded two years ago, make the perfect beginnings for starting compost pile. By the sweat of your brow... find half rotten sticks and logs and break them into shorter lengths. I've chosen about 30-50 cm. For those still using that archaic means of measurement used by Noah in building his ark, about 2-3 feet! The chainsaw for the thicker logs.
COOL, SHADY, DAMPChoose a shady spot for your compost pile. Mine is in the shade of a large mulberry tree.
Aside: My granddaughter, aged nearly two, had last year a serious problem with constipation. Nasty. A large fissure formed, and she had a lot of abdominal and fissure pain. That mulberry tree cured her. Some stuff from the doc helped in the short term, but we didn't like what we read on the label... the side effects of drugs, don't minimise them. Over 200 000 Americans die every year from the side effects of drugs. DIE. DEAD. By chance really, granny discovered that a wander every morning round the mulberry bush was the cure. The wonder of nature, of our loving heavenly Father, the good Lord made them all. Soluble fibre in fruit is his gift to the constipated colon. Beets are magnificent too... prunes, plums... most fruit and veg. She's cured.
Then by wheelbarrow, by the sweat of my brow this area is slowly filling up. I will make it about a metre deep and then cover it with half dried and dead wandering Jew, a prolific green weed in our garden. That will keep the compost pile cool and damp. It may need to be sprayed occasionally in the dry months. This is the compost I have from some logs I left behind seven years ago...
BUILD COMPOST PILE - of sticks
Obviously this compost pile is neither compact, nor does it tumble. But it does achieve good aeration, same as the compact compost tumbler, because of the large gaps between the sticks. I'll make no attempt to compact this pile, tread it down, those gaps for transfer of air is vital for Aerobic Composting. You can read more about aerobic and anaerobic composting at the next link at Making a Compost Pile.
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Composting with sticks, alternatively a Compact Compost Tumbler
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