Brooklyn1 wrote:
Bob F wrote:
Brooklyn1 wrote:
John McGaw wrote:
Bob F wrote:
Direct Compost wrote:
We provide the best SPAMMING

Composting SPAM is a bad idea -- it gets very smelly and is sure to
attract raccoons and other bothersome beasts.

This is by far the best compost bin:
http://www.amazon.com/Algreen-Produc...rds=composters

I'd fill that little toy up in less than one mowing.

That composter is more than sufficient for household trimmings, coffee
grounds, tea bags, deadheaded flowers and such, and any large
branches, tree limbs, tree stumps, and such get tossed in the brush
piles in my hedgerows for critter shelter.
If you're composting grass clippings you're a fool... haven't you
heard of mulching blades? I mow ten acres with two mowers, a 7' and a
5', both fitted with mulching blades, there are no visible clippings
on my lawn, all those wee bits shivel up to nothingness within seconds
yet they add all their goodness to my turf, and evenly, and with no
extra labor on my part... even my 21" push mower is fitted with a
mulching blade, no need for the bag. Were I to collect ten acres
worth of clippings I'd spend more time handling clippings than mowing,
and truely accomplish nothing. Like I said, if you're composting
grass clippings you're a fool, a damned fool!
I have lots of trees too, I don't rake leaves either, each fall I go
about mowing those leaves with my mulching blades, mountains of leaves
reduced to nothing, all back into the soil in no time. Golf courses
and ball fields don't collect grass clippings, they're no fools, they
use mulching blades. Even landscapers use mulching blades, even on
postage stamp sized lawns in suburbia, no one with an IQ collects
grass clippings anymore, haven't for more than twenty years... except
for the fools.

I guess I'm a damned fool who wants lots of compost for my veggy beds, and likes
a mower that does a good job of lifting the grass so it doesn't grow 6" and more
horizontal stems like I get with my toro "recycler". I use the recycler when I'm
lazy, but the snapper does a way better job of keeping the grass healthy and
evenly cut. And if I try to mulch the leaves from my neighbors poplars onto my
lawn, it covers and composts the lawn. So those go through the snapper and into
the compost too.

I live in the city, so 7 acres isn't my problem. more like 1/3.

I get 2-3 yards of compost out of my bins each year, and my veggies love it.

Thanks for the helpful comments.