Composter

Nice work. Yes, any time I’ve ever rebuilt a compost surround, I’ve been fortunate enough to have enough room to pick a new spot.. Good lesson learned.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

great job!
I like the angled slats.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

A quick question about compost. Can you use sawdust in the compost pile? I ask this becouse I was thinking of ways to use my sawdust other than throwing it over the hill.

-- F.Little

I don’t think saw dust would be good for a compost pile. It tends to feed off the nitrogen and pretty much use it all up. There’s been lots of posts about this you you’d like to search it. Nice job on the bins. Lots of stuff that goes in the trash can be turned to black gold. If you don’t think this stuff works, try it for a year or so.

Pretties compost pile I ever saw.

-- Ron Central, CA

Looks like a good solution, and probably made that corner of the yard a better place (except in the dog’s opinion of course).

Gotta love your signature…

-- "Skol, Vikings"

Despite the research on sawdust in the compost bin, I do dump mine in. As large a pile as I have, I can’t imagine it’s depriving it of all the available nitrogen. That, and keeping it turned is a big part of composting. If you do that, I have to imagine that you’re able to keep a better mixture of chemical ingredients.

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Skål, Dean!

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i wonder if there would be a way to plant some nitrogen fixing plants around the sides and back? Just something that popped into my head.

Olaf, I’m just wondering what your dog likes so much in the compost? When my dogs get a chance to get close to mine, they love to sniff around and dig some, but I’ve never seen them eating anything out of the pile.
- JJ

I use one third sawdust in my compost bin. Been doing it for years. Works fine.

-- Bruce from Central New York...now, if you'll pardon me, I have some sawdust to make.

very nice…I need to build one…and this looks just like one I saw in a magazine article that was sent to me…great job on it…

Did the plan call for such a depth in the posts or did you just decide to sink them that far…

-- Matt--Proud LJ since 2007

@ juniorjock: My dog eats apples and grapes, so she’s good for anything she can scavenge. I’m not really sure what she eats out of there. She may just role in the bugs or something, but she tends to stink afterward!

@ Napaman: The plan did call for the depth. You could build it stationary as I did, or portable with some slight modifications (albeit less digging).

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Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Ideally, make layers of materials such as a woody, dry layer (newsprint, which has soy ink these days) or dry leaves, woodchips or sawdust, and a green layer such as food waste, green plants, etc. Continue to build in layers. Depending on climate, you might or might not really need to turn. Also depending on whether or not you want to compost hot or not. If it’s dry, you might want to slightly dampen each layer with a sprinkle of water. But in the end, no matter what you do it will probably turn out fine in the long run.

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