Composting compost bin
Written by: adekun on 1 August, 2007 9:45 pm - Filed under: blog ?
Last year I cobbled together a reasonable sized compost bin out of old wood. The sides were made from some reed blinds destined for the city incinerator. Sadly over the past year my toil has been turning into compost. With the help of a few unhandy spade jabs, probably a lot faster than the contents.
I always thought you can never have enough compost; fortunately my neighbour has and offered me some. It seemed like a good time to reuse and recycle – again.
There was some leftover wood from when the mother-in-law commissioned the sister-in-laws fiancé to replace the tatami floor with wood, whilst we were away. I rather very much liked it before. The scrap was soon to be collected for the dump.
A day was spent the previous week, savaging, sawing and hammering. Without any long nails, an hour was taken to straighten and sharpen some old rusty ones.
The slide-up front panels are some old sliding cupboard doors, butchered to fit. As luck would have it there where five 40 litre bags of weeds, ready to go into the left bin. The compost I took went into the one on the right. No work of art, it didn’t cost anything and I’m very pleased with it.
