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Tumbler Composter – For A Vegetable Bumper Crop
A tumbler composter is the fastest and easiest method for creating your own compost. Compost that will make your flower beds and garden the talk of the neighborhood.
If you make your own compost, without a tumbler composter, chances are, you are working a lot harder than you need to. And, it’s probably taking you a much longer time to make your compost than it should.
As a gardner, you have a golden opportunity to convert something of little value into something of great value. With very little effort, you can make your own gardner’s gold (compost) from kitchen scraps and yard debris…commonly known as compost.
If you’ve never treated your plants to compost, you’ve missed out on a true miracle.
What is compost?
Not to be mistaken for fertilizer, compost is a very beneficial soil conditioner. Compost contains very little nutrient value, however compost improves a plant’s ability to absorb nutrients from the soil.
Where does compost come from?
Compost is the end product of the natural decomposition of organic matter. You see that natural process first hand when you walk on a soft forest floor. While decomposition is a normal process in nature, composting accellerates the process.
Decomposed organic matter is an extremely valuable soil amendment. Organic matter is very beneficial for plants and soil. It streamlines the microbial decomposition of soil, attracts beneficial earthworms, suspends plant nutrients in a state of slow release throughout the season, and suppresses many soil born diseaes.
Your garden and flower beds can never have too much compost.
Compost is available at your local garden store. However, making compost at home is a great exercise in environmental responsibilty.
By making your own compost, you reduce the amount of yard debris and kitchen waste that goes into our landfills. You can reduce that amount by as much as 75%.
In composting, you also experience genuine satisfaction by turning something of no apparent value (kitchen scraps and yard debris) into something that makes your garden and flowers, lush and beautiful.
How do you make your own compost?
To make compost you need four things:
1 – Browns (leaves, vegetable stalks, straw, peanut shells),
2 – Greens (grass clippings, food waste, garden waste, manures),
3 – good air flow, and
4 – the right amount of moisture.
Next, you’ll need to bring these ingredients together in a pile, a bin, or a barrel.
Pile Composter Method
With the pile method, you simply pile your ingredients, say in the corner of your garden. Then it’s necessary that you “turn” your compost pile with a spading fork at least once a week. The pile method is typically the slowest method to produce finished compost. It can take from 3 to 12 months.
Bin Composter Method
With the bin method, you construct a bin out of something, like old pallets. Use a pallet also to create a floor in the bin. The floor will allow the pile to breath from the beneath.
Line the bin with chicken wire or other small mesh wire. The smallest optimum size for a bin is 3′x3′x3′, the largest optimum size for a bin is 5′x5′x5′.
The ingredients in a bin also need to be “turned” at least weekly. The bin method usually creates compost in 3 to 6 months.
Tumbler Composter Method
The fastest (usually 14 to 21 days), and perhaps the easiest method for creating compost. In the tumble method, a barrell is used for mixing the ingredients.
Drilling holes in the barrell will provide proper aeration. If the barrell is not black, it’s a good idea to paint the barrell black so it will gather as much heat as possible.
Then every few days, simply roll or tumble the barrell to mix the composting ingredients.
The barrell can be mounted on a frame work, making it very easy to tumble.
If you’re a bit handy, you can build a tumbler composter of your own for very little, or no cost.
If do-it-yourself projects are not your cup of tea, tumbler composters can be purchased very economically.
In Conclusion
Composting is easy to do, it’s environmentally responsible, and your garden and flower beds will flourish.
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