The wife has been complaining about my "freestyle" compost heap taking up too much space in the backyard, so I decided to do something about it today. It is 4' in diameter and 3' tall (about 30 bushels or 1.4 cubic yards). I use it to hold the "brown" matter to add with my lawn clippings. The grass needs to be mixed with leaves to break down properly, I keep the leaves from the fall and add them to the grass throughout the summer.
This design uses 6' cedar fence boards (9 of them) 6" wide. I cut them exactly in half.
I laid them out and stapled them together with 3/4 galvanized staples, using plumber's tape (pipe hanging tape).
It's a little unweildy at first, but when it begins to fill up, it takes shape better.
There, that's better.
She's gonna love it...
I have found a compost kitchen container before and I really want to have one at least. Great job! This is definitely easier to mix the compost.
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