osprey94's Blog

LAZY days of (almost) summer
May 31, 2007 | 7:16 PM PST
Tag: composters

I've been so incredibly lazy each day when I come home from work. All I want to do is eat, get on the 'puter for an hour or so and then go to bed. Once I get in the garden and start working, I have a hard time stopping. There's never a shortage of things to do. But getting myself out there on a week night is a chore. Today I have to work on spreading out the mulch in the veggie garden, water, check on all my new plants, putter around in the woods. Help D w/ some cockamamie (that's a word I've never attempted to spell before!) plan he has involving some plant stakes he can't find that I have to come find for him NOW.

My next obsession will be a compost tumbler. I think my open pile is attracting rodents to the garden. More strawberries than ever are being munched on by little teeth. The only critters small enough to get into the garden besides bugs and birds are mice/rats and maybe some tiny bunnies. Plus, I'd have compost so much faster with a tumbler. Anyone have any advice for buying one? I want a medium sized one. Even w/ such a large garden, I never get a 3'X3' pile like you're supposed to have to get it hot, but I don't want a tiny one, either. I want a continuous composter, not a batch kind. And I don't think I like this weird "pig" one I've seen that you roll around on the ground to aerate. I want it to be stationary. So...anybody? Let me know.