Composting on the Cheap

Again, this is not too pretty, but I have found few compost container which are. Many compost container cost a lot of money, but I made this one. I purchased an inexpensive trash barrel and a cup drill bit which is about 1 and 1/2" in diameter (I already had the drill). I drilled a bunch of holes and starting adding organic matter. Now, I am not any kind of expert on composting. In fact, last summer I did nothing to this thing other than add matter. When I checked it out this spring, there were many, many worms (an excellent thing) and some very rich-looking black soil (a very excellent thing). I dumped it out onto the driveway and turned it with a shovel and put it all back. Again, I am no expert. For some reason, I thought it needed more time.

One word of advice about composting, as a general rule do NOT put weeds in your compost. I am sure there are some that actually are good for it, but since I do not know which ones, I put none in there. The seeds and roots of weeds are very hardy and will come up when you use the compost.

Well, that is my compost container.