Garden Compost Bin

Part Number: 02-0003
Price: $159.95

If you have been gardening for very long, and especially if you are an organic gardener, you know one of the best mulches or soil amendments that you can add to your garden is natural compost.

Compost is the complex organic substance humus that is the result of the decomposing process of dead animals and plants

“The principal goal of composting is to recycle organic matter on the spot, without the awful waste of energy involved in moving it around the county first.”

One particularly good kind of compost is created in worm bins where red worms are added to a mixture of bedding and organic waste. One of the best ways to do this is with what is called a Composting Bin. Bins are helpful because they accentuate the heat needed for material breakdown (although insulating bins may be required in some climates), they prevent wind blowing of compost materials, and will not suffer leaching by rain.

Our modernistic focus has led to farming means that are not natural and can damage the soil that we are using. Using commercial fertilizers and adding inorganic salt-based nutrients with inorganic forms of potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen, are ways that most commercial farmers ensure that their crops will grow. This practice has been shown to create runoff with excessive salt and nutrient depleted soils.

With this in mind, it is probably time, based upon the amazing amount of organic waste that our modern society produces, that we find a way to take all of this back to the farms and our own homes and start creating food that is better for us and more nutritious on not only an individual scale but a global scale.

Compost Bins are actually very easy and economical to purchase. Within the soil itself, you would add worms but these are not the only organisms that will be in the dirt aiding the composting process. Organisms such as worms are helped by fungi, bacteria, mites, arthropods, and even insects that love to live in this dark, moist habitat. The breaking down of organic waste will be accentuated and what will be left is a soil that is light, crumbly and moist and ready to interject into the soil that you currently have.

Features:

• Hot Compost Bin
• Dimensions: 40"H x 23"W x 23"D
• Capacity: 11 cubic feet or approx
• 58 gallons of material
• Product weight: 28 lbs
• Made from recycled polypropylene
• Dual access/snap shut lid
• Adjustable air vents
• Sliding bottom door for easy harvesting of finished compost

Length: 23in Width: 23in Height: 40in