How to Build a Free Compost Bin

[freqeist]

one tip is before you start putting your waste in cover the bottom with compost, it `kick-starts` it off and enables creatures like worms enter the waste easier.

[gjoshi1964]

@freqeist Yeah, so true .... :)

[cpflaumer]

Wow! So easy & cheap. I have about 4 or 5 of those pallets and did not know what to do with them. Now I know I can easily build a wooden composters for nothing but some fasteners, and start vermicomposting in a flash. I'm so glad I saw this. THANKS for the idea.

[lsophial]

I have a black , plastic compost container given here by the Municipality.It is closed almost no sun, and it takes too long to decompose the raw material. I managed to take a few kg of the soil last spring to fertilize my rose garden. Soon after i noticed that i had hundreds of Tomatoes and peppers plants! I transplanted many of them and i have 6 variety of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, Italian tomatoes, etc.

[WhatTheHeo]

Interesting using 4 pallets for a compost pile. *thumbs up*

[aureata1]

Wish I had seen this video before I laid out over $400.00 for one of those big double tumbling bin types. However, I have it now and my husband refuses to save the cut grass and raked leaves to put in it. How do I convince him to do this simple thing and stop buying all that suspicious top soil and mulch that someone hauls in on a truck and it is dried out when it comes?

[headgardener2u]

@aureata1 hmmm, how do you convince a husband... of anything? :-) Top soil is expensive. I use a lot of peat moss and compost & compost tea to beef up the soil fertility in my gardens. I only buy in soil if I need to build raised beds

[MAGTRAIN]

@aureata1 buying compost can come from different sources, sometimes it was once contaminated soil, maybe with heavy metals etc. it has since gone through "bioremidiation" i think you are always better off making your own compost since you know exactly what went into it

[headgardener2u]

@MAGTRAIN you're right of course. Doing this relatively simple thing is a good first step to having a healthy soil and a healthy garden. And the benefits of both go beyond our own lives. :-)

[arkansastrash320]

@aureata1 HaHa a nonbelevier well my advice would be if you pass alot of baged up leaves in front of peoples houses grab it and put it in your composter and you mow the yard and save the grass.All i can tell you.There are so many bags of leaves sitting on the curb its a shame that its not turned into compost.how ever our city says it compost all the leaves not sure i believe them Thanks

[jimbuckleybarrett]

@aureata1 How to convince the husband - SEX - if he doesn't compost no sex! :) I bet he be composting very quickly after that :)

[jitkyta]

good idea!!!!!!! I saw some free pallets on craig list ;o)))))

[headgardener2u]

@jitkyta - I get mine from behind some of the big box store construction stores like Lowes and Home Depot. Always lots of freebies out back

[cpflaumer]

@headgardener2u Good idea! I'm going free shopping to my local Lowes & HD! :D

[ArizonaAdventures]

good

[headgardener2u]

@ArizonaAdventures :-)

[goolden1]

very gooooooooooood idea.  thanks

[headgardener2u]

@goolden1 my pleasure. :-) I'm a big fan of inexpensive gardening