In article , Mike &
Karen writes
I just got a bit of spam in my snail mail box that interested me - try a
Compost Tumbler (R) free for 30 days. Apparently the rotating drum will
make great compost in just 14 days.

Hmm. I'd like to see that before I believed it.


Currently I have a nice heap made from 4 pallets with a little hatch in
the bottom. It is a good heap this time of year - getting hot enough
for me to find ash in the middle, but turning it is difficult, and the
hatch design means I take from the edge not the middle (also the stuff
from on top falls down). So for every spade of compost I takeout I have
to shove a spade of compost mixed with still identifiable stuff back on top.

I think you'd be better to make another the same size beside it, then,
when it's full, take the top layer off and put it into the new heap,
continue filling the new one while you use the old one, then reverse the
process - put top of new heap into old heap, start using new heap, and
so on.

I was thinking with this I could get a load of stuff off my heap, 14
days before I want it, shave it in, turn it once a day and two weeks
later reap the rewards, but is is just advertising talk? Am I better
off waiting until the end of the season, covering my heap, starting a
mini winter heap and then in spring empty the big heap on to the garden
and the little heap in to the big on?

Almost certainly.

--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"