Those barrel composter's are really a waste of money. I make allot of compost using the pile method.
The object of the barrel composter is to add oxygen and drain off any excess water too the compost for faster decomposition. Ya, well I can do the same thing without the $100 plastic barrel at HD. Lowes, garden centers.
I first started off with chicken wire rolled into 3ft cylinders x 3ft tall. Put in my ingredients and 60 days later I had compost. The draw back was I had to tip over the cylinder then take a shovel too dig out the compost. Not bad but a PITA.
I next tried the pile method, just pile my ingredients into a pile and 30days latter I had "hot" compost, meaning very high nitrogen content. If I waited 60days then it was just about right for feeding producing vegetable garden.
It's the compost ingredients that are the most important to complete the process.
Composting takes:
(3parts) carbon (wood, leafs, toilet paper, newspaper, wheat straw. saw dust etc) Also called "browns"
(1part) nitrogen (manure, human or animal it don't matter, hay, vegetable scraps, or other nitrogen source) Also called "greens"
Water (enough water that it will slightly drip when squeezed in your fist in a earth ball) or a place for the excess water too drain off.
Oxygen (as much as it can get, as in turning the pile for fast composting)
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