Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Compost bins, 0 by vossner

vossner wrote:
Those are fancy you all have shown here. Here is our setup. I remembered to take a pic. We have six such bins. We practice cold composting, just too strenuous for us to turn over (and low on our priority list). That's the purpose of the six bins. We stagger the contents and in that way the conversion from waste to compost takes place so that when one bin is ready for use, I have 5 others in diff. stages of decomposition. It takes about 3 years for a bin to turn into black gold when you do no stirring of green/brown material. B/c we have six bins, there is always a bin ready for the current season. Strangely and luckily, critters don't bother the bins, except for ants, and they do the aereating for us. I have never noticed any foul smell, but we're fortunate that the bins are far away from the house.