Comments on: How to start composting? http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net/2007/06/09/how-to-start-composting/ New to gardening - my experiences with Square Foot Gardening Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Douglas E. Welch http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net/2007/06/09/how-to-start-composting/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Douglas E. Welch Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:06:30 +0000 http://squarefoot.absoblogginlutely.net/2007/06/09/how-to-start-composting/#comment-4 Andy, you can start composting with the smallest amounts of waste. The bigger piles just seem to "cook" a little faster. You can even do worm composting in any cool space of about 4 by 4 feet. We use the Garden Gourmet plastic compost bins, here (<a href="http://welchwrite.com/agn/" rel="nofollow">you can see them on the web site</a>) and they work great. They are about 2.5 feet square, so they take up less space than a open compost pile. Before we had these, I took the shipping pallet from a clawfoot tub we installed and used it. This has now broken down itself quite a bit, hence the new plastics composters. With these, you feed the top and then remove the finished compost at the bottom...another major improvement over our old system, where you had to dig down the compost at the bottom. Andy, you can start composting with the smallest amounts of waste. The bigger piles just seem to “cook” a little faster. You can even do worm composting in any cool space of about 4 by 4 feet.

We use the Garden Gourmet plastic compost bins, here (you can see them on the web site) and they work great.

They are about 2.5 feet square, so they take up less space than a open compost pile. Before we had these, I took the shipping pallet from a clawfoot tub we installed and used it. This has now broken down itself quite a bit, hence the new plastics composters. With these, you feed the top and then remove the finished compost at the bottom…another major improvement over our old system, where you had to dig down the compost at the bottom.

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