Gardening requires a lot of compost. Our previous method was to dump everything in a pile in the corner, never turn it, and hope that it would somehow decompose. It worked, but far to slowly to be useful. So I decided to build a composter.
After some research, I chose to build a compost tumbler because it would save us the time and effort of turning a compost pile every few days. I found a few plans online that I used as guidelines for my project:
- The most detailed compost tumbler plans also came with video. This is the design I ended up using.
- The instructions from the Boy’s Life magazine were useful for making sense of the cryptic plans.
- I also watched other videos on Youtube to get ideas.
Total cost: about $50 per compost tumbler, plus 5-10 hours of work (not counting the 6 trips I made to the hardware store). I made two units because I need a lot of compost.
More detailed steps follow after the jump.
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