How do you turn the compost over?
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Hello Elaine,I tried turning it when I didn't have a lot of stuff in it. I have it for about 7 months. Now I completely gave up and just layering organic and paper and hoping for the best. If I had to do it again, I would get the one that turns. Also, had to tape the small doors on the sides, they would always open up. Eugene
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I don't. I'm careful to layer the material I put in it. After a few days of kitchen scraps and weeds, I add a couple shovels-full of old dead leaves. I aerate it by poking from the top with a metal rod once in a while.
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Use a pitch fork or a narrow shovel. It's a bit if a workout but it gets the job done.
1771719
We haven't turned it yet. We are thinking of shoveling from the bottom and putting it back in the top.
1771720
That is a good question. I have had mine since November, and it seems time to turn it. I suppose I will dump the contents on the ground, mix, and return contents to the bin. There appears to be no other way, and there were no instructions. I wish I had bought the bin that rotates, as this is little more than a plastic box with a few air vents. For the price, I would not purchase it again. It is a cheap product for too much money.
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If you use a compost starter, keep it slightly moist, keep it in the sun, and turn it every other day, you should have compost within a few weeks as long as you aren't putting a lot of twigs in it. The finer you chop up the stuff, the quicker it will turn into compost. But you also have to put enough into it, to get enough compost out of it, as vegetation is mostly water to begin with and breaks down to almost nothing.
541532
There are crossbars that help the compost "tumble" when you rotate the container. Seems toix the compost pretty well, with minimum poster effort.
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I took my bin to the compost bin and came in and rinsed it. I was able to pour 3 quarts + 3 cups of water into it before it was running over. I usually empty it when it has about 3 quarts of the ground pre-compost material. It is great!
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Yes, you can open the doors below and remove the compost. You of course, can stir, but I don't. I do, periodically add some soil or peat moss or manure so that I get a good mix.
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Yes you turn them over. They come with a plastic top which you remove.Great grinders, use them every day.
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No, not much in the way of how-to instructions. I'd recommend buying a bag of the compost starter that is suggested when you purchase the composter. That does give more instructions and makes composting easier and faster. It at least tells you what to put in the tumbler and what not to. You could probably find some additional composting instructions online if you did a search for them.
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Slide the red button on the side of the canister. The bottom will open and then you can dump the dirt.
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I use a three prong long handle device that I have for breaking down the soil in the garden. I find I wish I'd purchased a compost barrel that turned ,but I like the look of this one.
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Remove the Geobin and set it up again next to where it is now . Put the top of the pile into the now empty bin and the bottom is the compost you can use .
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Flowers and vegetables. When it has 'cooked' enough I mix compost in with regular dirt if possible. Other ways I place it around the plants.
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I don't see any instructions anywhere. Form the product into a trash bin shape (as shown in the picture). Weave one of the stakes through the holes where the two sides join. You will be pushing the excess part of that stake into the ground. take the other stakes and weave them through holes spaces evenly around the bin. Now put the bin upright, and push all of the stakes that woven through the sides into the ground so the bin will stand up. The picture is missing the stakes in place. Build what you see in the picture by just forming the circle and use the stakes to hold it together, and hold it to the ground. I don't see any instructions anywhere. Form the product into a trash bin shape (as shown in the picture). Weave one of the stakes through the holes where the two sides join. You will be pushing the excess part of that stake into the ground. take the other stakes and weave them through holes spaces evenly around the bin. Now put the bin upright, and push all of the stakes that woven through the sides into the ground so the bin will stand up. The picture is missing the stakes in place. Build what you see in the picture by just forming the circle and use the stakes to hold it together, and... » Read More I don't see any instructions anywhere. Form the product into a trash bin shape (as shown in the picture). Weave one of the stakes through the holes where the two sides join. You will be pushing the excess part of that stake into the ground. take the other stakes and weave them through holes spaces evenly around the bin. Now put the bin upright, and push all of the stakes that woven through the sides into the ground so the bin will stand up. The picture is missing the stakes in place. Build what you see in the picture by just forming the circle and use the stakes to hold it together, and hold it to the ground. « Show Less
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Either the material is at a constant 60 or the unit is broken. My compost runs about 160 and the probe is hot to the touch if I take it out....is yours?
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Don't know. Still waiting months later. Because the composter lets rain seep in, the material stays too wet to compost properly. I tried adding more dry material, but it just gets wet after the next rain and the barrel is extremely difficult to rotate when the composting material gets wet and heavy. Also, one of the bushings that the horizontal pipe goes thru is already cracked due to the weight of the wet compost. Don't think I would buy this one.
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Keep in mind that composting is really easy - can be as simple as putting a pile of your compostables in a small corner of the yard and leaving them there to decompose if you don't want to do any more work - and is far better for the environment than burning (plus the ash is then pretty worthless to your soil). If you throw your leftover vegetable choppings and some dirt and water on top, your papers will decompose even faster. Compost done correctly should never smell.
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It depends on how successful you are, keeping the right consistency and components. Odor happens when the balance is off; it can take a few days to correct. It's bound to happen eventually. Even when all is good, there is an earthy smell of the compost when you open it. It will drip compost liquid 'tea' too. Mine is outside.
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I just take it, turn it around in the composter bin, and hit a couple of times on the bin's edge. Super easy.