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To: GBA
During leaf season, the city had a free how to build your own composter class. Basically, they took a section of wire fencing and tied the ends together to form a cylinder, stand it up and fill with leaves.

That's what I do.

I bought a 10-foot length of hardware cloth, 3 feet high, and wrapped it in a circle and tied it together. Fill it with leaves, produce scraps, manure, et cetera. I don't turn it.

Once every spring I unwrap the cylinder, move it to another location, and shovel the unfinished stuff from the top of the old pile into the cylinder and use the finished compost on the bottom, bagging up any extra to use later. If you want more suggestions on composting, go to the gardenweb.com forums. There is an entire forum dedicated just to composting.

10 posted on 03/15/2009 12:48:12 PM PDT by alnick
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To: alnick
Sounds like it works! Here's a link to a Farmer's Almanac TV video on building one.

I use the three store bought bins I have in stages with the tapered round one to hold last stage with the finished compost at the bottom. I bag up the leaves from the fall and slowly mix them into the bins with a neighbor's grass clippings all summer.

If I had more room, I'd build three larger walk in bins out of old fencing, but this is better than nothing. One can never have too much compost as the Carolina clay needs a lot of help!

11 posted on 03/15/2009 1:03:20 PM PDT by GBA
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