How do you make a compost bin?
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Making a Compost Bin

You can make a compost bin from almost anything: cinder blocks, lumber, rubber garbage cans,...; to me the question is: "How large or small do you want it to be?". If you live in a area where you get a lot of rain then you should to keep it covered; also, by covering it you will keep out the night-time critters.

As an example: you could make it 2 foot wide by 2 foot long by 3 foot high with 3 or 4 sides. It may be placed under cover out of the weather or fitted with some type of a lid.

The most important things about composting are:

  1. put only vegetables, peelings from the kitchen, cut-up newspaper, leaves, grass;coffee grounds, egg shells, no fish or whole eggs keep the contents as wet as a sponge
  2. turn it over at least once a week.

You could make a compost bin out of a rubber garbage can. The only problem is turning the material over: the smaller the container the harder it is to turn the compost over - that is the hardest part of composting (besides keeping the material wet as it is breaking down).

Also, you don't even have to make a bin to have good compost. You can just make a pile and get the same results.

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