ComposTumbler
March 25, 2009
My dad bought me a full-sized ComposTumbler that was delivered while he was visiting, so he helped me by assembling it yesterday. I have three composts going already (one open-ish pile in chicken wire and 2×4’s and two black plastic cube ones) which are producing fairly well, although the open-ish one is hard to manage. I’m thinking about transferring a lot of the material from the open-ish pile to the new tumbler. It has a whole manual about how to get 14 day compost but I do not have the correct ratios right now nor the interest to temp it, use activator, etc. so I’ll have slower compost but that’s not a big deal to me. It’s a batch composter, which means you have to stop adding material and let it “cook” to get the finished product, but that’s ok b/c I’ll still have the other composts to put my kitchen scraps in, etc.
July 2, 2009 at 10:42 am
Well, I still don’t have compost out of it. It seems to dry out quite quickly in comparison to my black cube composters, even though I water it regularly. It is shrinking up, though, so something’s happening – hopefully not petrification! Heh.