Author: North Country Gardening: Simple Secrets to Successful Northern Gardening.

Mary

Since then I’ve acquired a rolliing composter which works quite well, and which is squirrel-proof. Doesn’t keep them from eating the pears off the tree though. But perhaps there are fewer of them, since the completely free lunch is gone. The composter I use is available several places: http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=47098&cat=2,33140

I’ve been reseraching different gardeners’ methods, and this one seems to make the most sense for me, as a single person living in northeast saskatchewan. (You said it should retain enough heat, even in colder climates)

How can I get my hands on a cheap, small version??

kymber_rae@hotmail.com

By the way, the reason you had that big “nest” of grass at the top IS directly because it wasn’t chopped up. It was basically a tangle of grass and no amount of spinning was going to separate that tangle and mix it in, so it never got the chance to integrate with the rest of the stuff or stay sufficiently moist. I have the same model in my backyard and I put in grass clippings 2 mowings ago and just pulled out mostly finished compost yesterday, it was still a little clumpy, but you couldn’t tell it had once been grass.

Another thing you can try is toss some worms in the composter every once in awhile.

You might have also benefited more from the smaller size, I wanted to be generous to bloggers and give them the larger premium size to use but it is bigger and harder to turn than the smaller size.

What I want is a compost finisher, something that would heat up my almost finished compost so that the seeds would germinate. If it could sift out the larger pieces, that would also be nice.

Jessica