Here's to compost

[Cratered Cous Cous]

Just built my first "real" compost pile out of some cedar fence that was taken down. Here's hoping it works as well as the chicken wire I've been using!

[Higgs Boson]

How are you going to get in there to turn and aerate (sp) ?

[Dav]

I find it easer to never turn the pile, when the pile (4x4x4) is 1- year old I screen it & throw the uncomposted material into next years bin. There is very little that will not be composted. It takes a year using all materials on my one acre of land to build a pile 4x4x4, 64 cubic feet, which takes about 10 x 64cu ft or 640 cubic ft of materials to make a pile of compost 4x4x4. It then sets a year ( summer solstice to summer solstice June,22) while I'm building a new one. Now if you have a 4x4x4 bin full of material & you start turning, you'll probably end with 6 cu ft, one wheelbarrow full. My way I get

128 wheelbarrows of compost a year. Have never aerated and can't see why I should. Have been doing this for eight years.

dav