Tumbleweed Composter?
We have ordered this composter because it was listed in the top 5-10 reviews
When it arrives should we srtart putting stuff in it or wait until it’s warmer.
We have shredded paper and kitchen stuff right now but will have to wait for neighbors to mow lawn for clippings.
We have opted not to have a lawn, our trees are all Junipers so gathering leaves it also not an option
This composter says only spin once a day:
http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/composter_landing.html
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Start straight away and it isn’t as fast as they say it is.
you can start right away, a good composter well heat things up enough on its own.. well the stuff inside it will anyway.
you might want to start researching the different types of things you can put in there. theres alot of stuff i wouldn’t have thought of, like hair for example.
Send it back and save yourself some money. You have to constantly stuff the thing and you must have a 3 to 1 ration of brown material to green. These tumblers are ungainly and when full, it is really tiring to turn. These tumblers have to be turned 30 times each day. Also if don’t keep a perfect ratio of brown material to green and constantly monitor the water level, you never really get decent compost. These things are a royal pain the rear and not worth what you get out of them. I had one and I used it one year and sold it. I get much better compost from my little worm farm and from my bin in the back yard. My worms eat all my shredded paper and kitchen scraps and do it within two or three months. In that short amount of time, I have the best compost you can get. It only takes one teaspoon of worm leftovers to totally fertilize a plant for almost two months. The worms constantly take my shredded paper and kitchen scraps. No one even knows it’s a worm farm because it is in 18 gallon storage container from Wal Mart and just looks like a plastic box. But I heartily advise against the tumbler. It does not sound like you have enough waste material to fill a tumbler and it is so hard to maintain. Most of the brown that goes into a tumbler is from fallen leaves and you say you dont have any. And this 3 to 1 ratio of brown to green is kind of the compost rule. So if you have a gallon bucket of grass clippings, you will need 3 gallons of brown to keep the compost balanced. That is alot of brown.