(I'm doing this for a friend who wants some advice on how to start a compost pile.)
Option 2:
Option 3:
Option 4:
Option 5:
Option 6:
Option 7 (container plus turning tool):
Option 8:
Option 9:
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Types of compost piles and devices. These are just some of the many, many variations.
Options 8 and 9 are mine. Option 9 (could honestly be called a no-work compost pile) sits behind my vegetable garden and it began because I just started mindlessly tossing stuff there in the spring and forgot about it. When you lift up all those weeds and grasses you find worms and critters hard at work making compost and humus.
(I'm doing this for a friend who wants some advice on how to start a compost pile.)
Option 2:
Option 3:
Option 4:
Option 5:
Option 6:
Option 7 (container plus turning tool):
Option 8:
Option 9:
(I'm doing this for a friend who wants some advice on how to start a compost pile.)
Option 2:
Option 3:
Option 4:
Option 5:
Option 6:
Option 7 (container plus turning tool):
Option 8:
Option 9:
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Nice picture collection! Here are a couple other options. A good box: http://thecluelessgardeners.blogspot.com/2010/04/compost-bin.html And a silly sphere that doesn't work all that well: http://thecluelessgardeners.blogspot.com/2009/03/composting-chris.html
I have something similar to option 7, but with no turning tool. I was under the impression that you don't turn it, but just keep piling on, and then the oldest decomposed stuff ends up at the bottom anyway.
I really liked having an open pile, though. It was always really easy to tell where the good, ready stuff was, and the ventilation seemed to keep the smell and bugs down.
You guys gave the PERFECT comments. Michelle verified my (unspoken) preference for something simple -- no fancy offbeat spaceship-looking thing. And Jen verified my point that a simple pile o' stuff, requiring only the effort of piling on more stuff, makes a perfectly respectable composting system. Because if you have an outdoor pile of (a) brown stuff such as leaves (carbon) and (b) greenish stuff such as kitchen scraps and yard clippings (nitrogen) nothing on this earth will stop it from becoming compost.
Jen (JGH)...you commented that the ventilation of an open pile "keeps the bugs down." In my most humble opinion, I have to suggest that you never want to "keep the bugs down" since it's the bugs and worms and tiny bacteria that break down the organic matter. Right?
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