For years I've dreamed of this crock. It sits on the kitchen counter and collects fruit/veggie scraps as well as tea bags and coffee grounds. The top has a charcoal filter so that your kitchen won't smell like onions and garlic dipped in coffee. Being the cheap frugal person that I am, I wouldn't shell out the 40 bucks for it. You can imagine my delight when I found a brand new one at Goodwill.
Mr. Intensity became the photographer, after his recklessness drilling made me nervous. I made him stop helping. I'm such a mean mom.
Above he's demonstrating how we'll roll the container in the yard to turn the compost. And below is the finished project.
Having the pretty crock pushed me over the edge to make a full sized compost bin for outdoors like this one - especially now that we have a yard! (and since the worms died when I neglected them for 6 weeks.)
Hubby bought a 33 gallon heavy duty plastic trash can with a tight fitting lid at Home Depot. Then I used a 1/2 inch drill bit to make all kinds of holes for aeration. Picture courtesy of Mr. Intensity.
Mr. Intensity became the photographer, after his recklessness drilling made me nervous. I made him stop helping. I'm such a mean mom.
Above he's demonstrating how we'll roll the container in the yard to turn the compost. And below is the finished project.
5 comments:
You're so lucky, I can't believe you found that at Goodwill!! I want one of those so bad but I am also too cheap, er, frugal to spring for one.
Cool!
You're so ambitious! Looks like you all are having a good time getting settled!
Blog question...how do you type the strikethrough??
Christy, re: strike through (I had to ask another blogger, too!) - when writing a post, go to the "edit HTML" tab. Find the word you want to strike and before the word type (open carrot)del(closed carrot) and after the word /del (but you have to use open and closed carrots <> before and after the del.) I can't show you exactly b.c google is freaking out that I want to strike something in the comments. Let me know if this doesn't work for you....luvmyhub AT gmail DOT com
I'm glad you shared this DIY composter again. I have wanted to do this for awhile, but Chris is finely on board, I think, so maybe I'll send him a link and see what he thinks!
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