Northeast Gardening: FINALLY!, 0 by noknok

noknok wrote:
Thanks! I've never really done this before. Just piles of stuff here and there. I've been buying wood chip mulch from a local saw mill, nice dark stuff and pretty cheap.
Once i got several truck loads of composted leaves from a local landfill. It made good soil, eventually, but we spent weeks removing junk, plastic toys and the occasional screen door from it!
I've always wanted to do this. The rather palatial contraption just turned out that way. DD gave me the five gargoyle heads last fall, since when they just sat around on the back porch. When the bins were built we were exactly five half-blocks short! Come spring I want to make hands and feet for them.

Gram, I was most impressed with the garbage can outside the factory door. I had just put one can of old wood chips (free) next to an empty can, where we dumped our banana peels, moldy bread and coffee grounds, filters and all, tossing in some wood chips to keep the flies off each time. That was ALL we did. After three months it was beautiful!
I swear anyone could do this, given a back corner somewhere.
I think you can still get free coffee grounds from Starbucks.

Here's a closeup of a bin.