So I have a compost bin like the one pictured. I have a lot of weeds that I pull and throw in there (seeds excluded). Any time I go to mix it with a drill attachment the weeds get grabbed and wrench my elbow. Is my only option to put the weeds through a chipper or can I try throwing worms in there so they break it down? Advice welcome
by Worth-Conversation21
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We have some of those.
But we won’t buy them any more.
We use Galvanized Welded Wire and make a ring.
We have like 8 of them around the farm.
When we are filling them we add cardboard around the inside and just pile material in it.
I have a bunch of geobins. The ones I use for weeds I just fill up and let them sit for a year or so. Eventually, everything breaks down. But it’s even hard to turn a pile of weeds with a pitchfork because the stems tangle together and it forms mats that get really heavy. So I do lazy composting for weeds.
If I’m putting long-stemmed weeds in one of my other piles that I do turn, I chop them up with pruning shears first, into foot-long (30cm) chunks.
Turn down the torque adjustment so it doesn’t wrench your elbow. When it gets caught, reverse the direction.
Either turn it with a pitchfork, or trim the weeds with shears/trimmers as you add them in. Or don’t mix it at all and let the worms move in on their own.
I am high and thought that was full of Dino-shaped gummies. Was like wtf is this an ethanol strainer for making extract for weed gummies?
Honestly, with weeds I stopped adding to compost.
Toss them in a metal bin with 30% vinegar then they go in the trash