Comments on: Urban Compost Bin Tumblers

By: At Last New Homemade Compost Bins | A Self Sufficient Life

At Last New Homemade Compost Bins | A Self Sufficient Life — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:03:20 +0000

[...] at Casa Dirty Boots. But, the one thing we don’t – well didn’t love was our compost bins. Oh they were fine and dandy when first created. In fact we were rather smug that we’d [...]

By: Jim C

Jim C — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:00:27 +0000

I made a rotating compost drum that has just finished making my first batch of compost from start to finish in 16 days. Do they work? YES ! ! !

By: Mr.Dirty Boots

Mr.Dirty Boots — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:47:57 +0000

Goo, If you want really fast results then it would be mostly greens ot stuff that will decompose quickly. From my experience with our compost heaps I would say that sawdust would be a no. It takes quite some time to break down. I think you are right that you would still need a secondary bin for tougher stuff. It is tempting though, these compost bin tumblers really can give rich compost in a matter of weeks.

Terry, thanks for that. A homemade compost tumbler may well be worth a try. Did you get compost in a few weeks when you used it?

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:25:08 +0000

A cheaper/homemade/freecompost tumbler can be manufactured from a recycled 200 litre drum.

Pick a cleanish drum, poke holes at the top and bottom centres and insert a piece of one inch water pipe. THe posts can be forked poles which the pipe rests on.

I had one like this, with fast compost etc, for several years.

Terry

By: Goo

Goo — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:25:44 +0000

Very useful and informative post. Sounds like you will still need a secondary composting system for all the stuff you can't put in. I'm used to mixing brown and green waste as evenly as possible for our compost bin (homemade with pallets of course!), sounds like the tumblers need mostly green, am I right? Would you put your sawdust in, we have a lot of this. Nevertheless I am very attracted to the idea of getting compost quick, as buying the stuff is a real grind for us. Goo’s last blog post..Ridiculously Fond of Radicchio

By: A Self Sufficient Life » How To Build A Compost Bin

A Self Sufficient Life » How To Build A Compost Bin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:32:31 +0000

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