A little off topic but close...
So I collected too much rabbit manure and my freezer is full of food scraps for my worm bin, and I have a lot more coming...so I bought a tumbling composter. My apologies to the diy crowd, I've got a pretty jammed schedule so I didn't have the time to make one. I picked one up at Menards for 60 bucks. Not too bad for saving me the time.
It holds up to 45 gallons and is supposed to turn it's contents into compost in a few weeks.
It's not like you have to layer it, it's a tumbler...lol...but for the sake of some photos...
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Lots of cardboard, I amass so much cardboard just by existing. The boxes the cans of soft food for my dogs and cats comes in, cereal boxes, eBay bullshit, etc.
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A five gallon bucket filled with straight rabbit manure, some produce scraps from the freezer
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About four gallons of rabbit manure mixed with litter (Alfalfa hay/cardboard scraps)
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I moved into my new house in the winter so I didn't get to rake up leaves until the spring. The lady that lived here before used to grow as well but with synthetics so she had dirt dumped all over the yard. So I got two enormous yard bags filled beyond the brim with leaves and old dirt.
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A bag full of recently pruned off cannabis leaves...cause they gotta go somewhere.
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Sooooo muchhh rabbit manure!
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A bunch of produce I'd been saving in my freezer. Some pulp from my juicer, just some stuff that went bad. Not much citrus but a little. I wouldn't dare put it in my worm bin and fuck up their pH, but they say a little bit at a time in your compost pile (or in this case tumbler) is cool.
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More of the leaves, old dirt mixture...
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I buy a lot of amendments in bulk when they're on sale, or just to fuck with sometimes because I'm a neoliberal and believe the world's problems can be solved with consumerism (this is a joke I'm totally kidding lol). So I threw a handful of everything in
Neem Seed Meal, alfalfa meal, Crab Shell meal, Oyster Shell Flour, Bat Guano, greensand, a tiny bit of fish bone meal from the bottom of an empty down to earth box, and a handful of worm castings (the tumbler instructions say to add a handful of compost to get the other stuff composting...so whatever. Pretty sure I got enough stuff in there to get this bitch hot but I'll play along just to be safe.
And so muchhhh more cardboard.
Then I tumbled that bitch like crazy after I sealed it up. It says to tumble it every other day and I'll have compost in three weeks. Between this and my multilevel worm bin, I should have enough compost and castings to fertilize my personal garden and the other gardens I work in. I'm gonna publish a thread soon devoted to simple cheap growing, documenting a seven light pole barn room I take care of. Look out for that soon!