Three (low-cost) Composters
(Page 5 of 5)
March/April 1979
By the Mother Earth News staff
NOW FOR THE EASY PART
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Once you have the rotating drum composter of your choice completed, you're ready to start harvesting all that terrific fertilizing mixture. Simply throw all your kitchen garbage, grass clippings, leaves, and other organic wastes into the barrel (avoid adding sawdust or heavy cellulose material, because these substances take a long time to break down), then give the drum a turn or two every day ... and add water (if necessary) to speed up the decomposition. Before too long, your household waste will be converted into a rich black garden tonic of the finest quality ... even better, in fact, than the compost made in a traditional bin, because all the nutrients are captured within the barrel and are not allowed to leach into the ground beneath the pile.
And—to assure a more constant supply of soil booster—you may want to build more than one of whichever design you choose ... so you can have a composter already digesting material while another is being filled.
THERE IS MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE
For more information on the composting process, read The Complete Book of Composing (Rodale Press, 1960) and Everyone's Guide to Home Composting (available for $3.95 plus 95 ¢ shipping and handling—from Mother's Bookshelf, P.O. Box 70, Hendersonville, North Carolina 28739).
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