Making a Simple Compost Bin
Posted by busViewr on September 25, 2009
My mother has been hinting to me lately that it would be nice to have a composting structure in her back yard. She knows I picked up a lot of the DIY talents and duties from my father while he was alive, and she usually counts on me to take care of her house and yard now that he’s passed on.
While the idea of a composting system sounded pretty cool, I really didn’t want to take the time to figure it all out. Instead I went online to see how much a system might cost to just buy. Was I ever in for a shock when I saw the price tags on some of the super systems that existed out there!
If you were in a situation where you might need something neat, tidy, and fully operational right now, I could understand spending upwards of $300 or $400 dollars for a fancy, rotating compost bin system. While I have a lot of love for my mother, I wasn’t going to spend that sort of money to find out she’d stopped composting 2 weeks after I put the system in.
Instead of spending the big dollars, I did some research to see what it would take to build an effective compost system of our own. There was a wide range of options available. In the end, I simply picked up a $13 plastic garbage container with lid from the Home Depot, drilled a bunch of holes up and down the sides, and set that out back to collect Mom’s kitchen recyclable organic materials.