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To: MIchaelTArchangel

That’s the way I have done it in the past. Trouble is, fresh compost on top and no way to get the good stuff on the bottom without turning. Then I get the new mixed up with the old. Then I tried several compost piles at once.


5 posted on 03/15/2009 12:14:39 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Boycott Peggy Swoonin')
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To: Mamzelle
"That’s the way I have done it in the past. Trouble is, fresh compost on top and no way to get the good stuff on the bottom without turning. Then I get the new mixed up with the old. Then I tried several compost piles at once."

Our farming neighbors had a 55-gal. drum with a door in the side, a pipe through the top and bottom, and resting on risers. The pipe had two 90 degree angles to make a crank handle. Add kitchen waste and soil into the door, latch it, give it a turn or two, and when it is ready, you put the wheelbarrow under the door, open it, and dump out as much as you need.

7 posted on 03/15/2009 12:23:33 PM PDT by redhead (Don't look at ME! I voted for SARAH!)
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