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Thank you Eddie for your tips - a great idea that I hope other readers find useful!

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

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Not bad. For less expense I'm using plastic 55 gallon industrial soap drums and cutting a door big enough for a shovel. I hinge it on one side and latch it on the other. I set the drum on a wooden frame, supporting it on 4 discarded lawn mower front wheels just inside the ends. All round the sides of the drums are 1/2" holes drilled 2" apart on diamond pattern for air flow. After filling the drum half to 2/3, water it down, and turn it a couple of times every other day. Put a tarp under it to catch the fine stuff as the compost matures.

-- Contributed by: Eddie Martin

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Thank you, Gerry, for the useful tip about using wood to make compost. Kate

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

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Please do NOT use treated wood if your compost will be used in a vegetable garden. It is rather toxic. It is appropriate that the wood used for a compost tumbler or bin rots.  :-)

-- Contributed by: Gerry
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