Compost Bin

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I spent a lot of pleasant hours pulling nails and stacking all the boards. Now, when we need lumber for a project, you can see for your self what we did with that used lumber and how the finished project looks.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1ce2ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="1cf2ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="1d02ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> We wanted our compost/sand/potting mix bin to be part of our plant holding area, so we put down weed blocker first.</div> <div> Using lumber we had, we made the back of the unit first. It is 12' long. We constructed it with 4x4 support posts on the outside of the structure, rather than on the inside. The inside walls are all square and smooth.</div> <bR> <div> Cordless drills are such a blessing! What did we ever do without them?</div> <div> I say, a woman who owns a cordless drill and knows how to put PVC pipe together with glue can build just about anything!</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d12ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="1d22ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="1d32ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> We build the ends and the middle section and then stood them up and used deck screws to hold them all together. It works.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d42ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="1d52ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1db902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">          <IMG SRC="1dd902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> June 18, 2008 This is what happens to a good compost bin when you feed it all your kitchen garbage, too. The best plants of the year show up when you're not looking and all of a sudden, you discover that you have green beans ready to pick, tomatoes setting on, and a watermelon the size of a golf ball right in the middle of the right-hand photo above.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1da90150.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="533" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sure, my natural instinct as a good housekeeper is to clean this stuff up and let the compost do what compost is supposed to do. But, I guess compost is supposed to support plants. This one sure is. I'm leaving it alone. We need to build another bin, anyway, to hold all our compostable materials, so this section will be able to give us some good eating this summer.</div> <bR> <div> One customer, here today to buy plants, saw the compost garden. His comment was, "You can plant seeds in the garden, water, weed, and nurture them all summer, and they will never be half as beautiful as the ones growing on the compost heap."</div> <div> I agree.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>