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Recommend your composter
I want to get DH a composter for Christmas.
I am looking in the $100 - $150 range.
I know there are lots of ways to build one myself - I'm not up for it. He keeps talking about building some kind of composting device, and completely has the know-how and talent, but just not the time.
We pile our leaves in a corner of our yard currently, but I want to start composting household stuff - banana peels, onion skins, egg shells, etc.
I know nothing of composting so if anyone knows of a good website, I'm all ears. So far someone told me that I should mix the leaves in with the banana peels.
Wife, Musician, Fed, WW-er, and Mom of three little kids - not necessarily in that order.
Re: Recommend your composter
Do you belong to Costco? They have the lifetime barrel composter for $99. It's great, we've been using it for 3 years now. We've bought 5 of them to give as gifts over the last few years and everyone has loved them. If you are not a Costco member, and you decide to go this route, email/PM me, I can pick it up for you.
As to composting basics, I don't have enough time to write right now, but it's an easy organic process and if you are not concerned about having soil quickly and are mostly just interested in reducing your footprint, it's even easier. We do a three tier system, but you can get away with a two tier system easily. (For us it's a pile for leaves, grass and garden waste, the tumbler composter and a holding box for kitchen scraps when we want the tumbler to finish tumbling it's contents). I'll edit with more info later.
We use a vermicomposter for our household/kitchen items - banana peels, etc. Are you open to having worms in your house?
If so, this is the one we have and so far it's been great: http://www.amazon.com/Can-Worms-00300-Composting-Bin/dp/B004PYD3WE/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1321892302&sr=8-13
a tumbling one is great b/c it's easier to turn & thus faster to get finished compost. you can combine your yard waste & kitchen waste...in fact the mix of the two provides an ideal environment for decay which is what you want. i agree with heyjellisy that having more than one can be beneficial so that you can have at least a "finished" bin and an "in process" bin. Your finished bin could be a trash can with holes drilled all over it (in fact, this is exactly what my compost bins are)
you could get all concerned with having the appropriate mix of "greens" (usually kitchen waste) and "browns" (usually yard waste) but having it off balance only results to slower decomp and/or a little bit of odor. you can't really ruin compost!
This is awesome. DH and I were in the backyard looking at how to do the raised beds for next year.
As for worms, I am wholeheartedly against them being in my house!
Jellisy, I looked at Costco online and they have a more expensive version ($180). Do you know if they typically carry the one you mentioned in the store?
That's the same one as in store, minus the hand tool set. I have no idea why it is so much more money online - perhaps shipping? I wonder if they raised the in store price, we last bought one in September for my brother as a housewarming present and it was still a $100.