We were away and missed the big shopping excursion but am enjoying the spoils! It has suddenly gotten much easier to water the garden. You asked me about the compost and it is almost ready the last time I checked, though some people are continuing to add new material. I would like to open the discussion up to figuring out how we can do 365-day-a-year composting, which has several advantages.
One option would be to purchase a second tumbler. Big expense ($330) A second option, suggested here, would be to get a secondary container, like a regular trash can, where we can store the kitchen waste for the two or three weeks we would want to shut the tumbler down.
In any case, I'd like to think about setting aside a small part of the garden to store the compost after it comes out of the tumbler and before it is ready to put into the soil. It would help us accumulate enough compost over the summer and winter to replenish the soil in the fall and spring. it would also be nice to put aside some space for fibrous yard waste that takes too long to break down to put into the tumbler. What do others think?
Good idea about a second composting material site. Perhaps that bed near the composter, under the tree, that grows almost nothing. We could use some wood scraps we have in the basement to build a loose box and perhaps (neatly) tie a tarp down over it. I'd be willing to do it next weekend. Also, I agree that we need a cover-able plastic container. We had one but it disappeared. We are soon going to buy a couple of of rectangular ones at Target for ourselves and could buy an extra for the garden - Sam
ReplyDeleteRate, I'll be away next weekend, but I think that's the logical place for it. Maybe make two compartments...one for the compost and the other for mulch-like materials that we may want to keep separate. We probably have a spare one of those blue plastic bins, if that's what you are looking for. ot attractive but serviceable for now.
ReplyDelete2 compartments, maybe. Thinking that we cannot use this for pre-composted food because of the chance of attracting pests, so only for mulch and mature compost.
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