Built some bins

[baymule]

I love to see people so organized about their compost. Scraps here go to the dogs, chickens and when we have them, pigs. So my compost is sheep, chicken and horse manure. The chicken and sheep manure I put right on the garden, the horse has to cook a bit for all the grass/weed seeds it has in it.

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

I love to see people so organized about their compost. Scraps here go to the dogs, chickens and when we have them, pigs. So my compost is sheep, chicken and horse manure. The chicken and sheep manure I put right on the garden, the horse has to cook a bit for all the grass/weed seeds it has in it.

Haha! We have about 15 chickens and absolutely give them some good stuff, from which I get about 10 gallons of chicken crap on a monthly basis that goes into my compost bins. Once I get our garden area set it will go more over there directly.

 

[flowerbug]

i know how the winds can go... we've had sheets of plywood and metal laying flat on the ground get enough wind across them to pick them up and toss them around. i've had to go back and pull some out of the large drainage ditch out back which has a fence along it too, so not only did it pick them up and move them it was enough to lift them over the fence too... we have a lot more rocks on them now.

 

[Nyboy]

High wind always means I lose a few trees in woods

 

[ducks4you]

So now that we're in a permanent place I decided to get a bit more serious about some composting. I build a single unit of three bins and am now covering the inaides with chicken wire and next will build somw sort of top (I have no clue)

The idea is that each bin holds 4 months worth of scraps. After those four months it sits and gets flipped for at least another four months or until it's good to be used. Should allow me to better control making sure stuff cooks long enough.

Each bin is 4x4x4

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I applaud your efforts!!!
HATE, HATE, HATE to flip, so I till instead.

 

[flowerbug]

I applaud your efforts!!!
HATE, HATE, HATE to flip, so I till instead.

i just bury. worms flip for me. once and done until i have to put something back in that spot again (about once every 5-10yrs it seems to be how it is going).

 

[so lucky]

Sprig, is there any reason you put a solid lid on the bins? Could you just make a framed chicken wire lid, if keeping critters out is your goal?

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Sprig, is there any reason you put a solid lid on the bins? Could you just make a framed chicken wire lid, if keeping critters out is your goal?

My goal was more for keeping rain and snow from going right on/in the pile and therefore dropping the temp. Not as concerned with critters

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Well, I found a funny flaw in my design. With ice pack on the ground the gates can't open more than a few inches hahahaha.

 

[ducks4you]

Ha, Ha!! Less work for you!!
Read gardening articles and peruse seeds catalogs instead. They will WAIT for you and Spring, no problem.
No ridiculing you but I have a solution. Next time you replace a floor mat, like in front of your door, or a rubber bath mat--I need to do this!--save it and dig about an inch or two down in FRONT of a door or opening like this and put the mat there. It will freeze to the ground but still enable you to open the door. I have done this is several places including the gate to my chicken's run.