I'm getting into gardening and want to try composting this year. I have this thing sitting on my property for a while now and I'm wondering if I can repurpose it for composting. looking around it seems like the biggest issue is drainage, which I can fix easily. but the oxygen part may be harder.
What are the community's thoughts on these things, yay or nay?
I think I could score some pallets from my job otherwise.
by Byful
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It’d be awfully hard to turn once it’s full. Also having a bottom means you have a barrier preventing worms from getting in/out.
Maybe if you cut the bottom out? Then you can potentially just lift it up when you want to turn/move the pile.
My thoughts would be it’s just not that easy to get everything out when it’s ready, my system has one side that comes down so it’s easy to collect it, also I feel like this would be nice as a planter,
That said I have friends who use metal baths as worm farms with a pipe at the bottom to collect the worm juice so if you raised this on bricks that could work too
Never use zinc and iron for acid Compost
There’s no where for the worm juice to drip
That takes a minute to decompose, but sure, toss it on the pile!
I don’t like composting in vessels like this. The sides make it too difficult to turn everything so the edges and bottom go anaerobic or don’t break down at all.
For my cheap self, knocking 3 pallets together offers the size (~1 cubic yard) to get a huge diversity of stuff in and the access to keep it all in process.
There are so many beautiful set ups in this sub, look through the archives.
In addition to the issues identified, it looks quite small. I would get a bunch of welded/chicken wire and make a large cylinder.
I would keep your vessel here as is for rainwater collection or other water transportation around the property.
Planter.