Every few days tip your DIY compost tumbler over and roll it. The amount of what you have will be reduced by about half, but it’ll be good stuff. Using this method, you should have good, usable compost within a few weeks. If you have a lot of larger or coarse material, like bigg...
How many compost barrels do I need? How long will one barrel last? Good questions, but there are lots of variables. The two 50 gallon food-grade containers I use will hold a little more than a year of household scraps for a family of four {assuming you don’t give any scraps to the...
Transform your kitchen scraps and yard waste into valuable, nutrient-rich compost with a DIY tumbling composter.Family Handymanprovides a detailed guide on building a sturdy and feature-rich composter using a 55-gallon drum. Perfect for garden enthusiasts, this cost-effective project requires interm...
This DIY compost tumbler requires cutting skills and equipment. A wooden frame holds a 55-gallon food-grade drum horizontally, which was acquired for about $13 from a local soda distributor. A hole saw was used to cut holes into barrel’s top and bottom to enable a PVC pipe to be thread...
Here’s what you’ll need for your very own composter (The store bought materials can all be found at Lowe’s): Food Safe Barrel of some sort (I used a leftover crazy person’s 40ish gallon Y2K water barrel they had in their basement in preparation for the end of the world) ...
1 gallon finely screened compost 3 TBSP lime (if using peat moss) 2 TBSP granular, organic fertilizer (or 2 TBSP of the DIY container fertilizer blend found above) Potting soil recipe for houseplants 2 gallons sphagnum peat moss or coir fiber ...