(CleanAirGardening.com)
Hi, this is Lars with Clean Air Gardening and today I am going to tell you about the Tumbleweed Compost Bin. Tumbleweed is one of my favorite bins. This been right here is actually the one I have at my own home. That is why you can see that it has real compost inside, although it is not finished compost yet. It is actually a mix of leaves and kitchen scraps and things like that. The great thing about a compost tumbler is that it makes it easy to keep your compost well aerated. And keeping your compost mixed up and well aerated is one of the keys to doing it quickly and getting compost quickly. Compost is just fine, with one of those that you heap on the ground, they also make compost very well but you’ll probably need to use a pitchfork or one of those compost turning tools or something like that to keep it mixed up if you want to do the fastest composting with it. Or you can just leave it there and let it there and let it compost more slowly and you never really have to mix it at all. But the great thing about this one is, it has got a lead on either side, so it doesn’t matter which side is facing up, either way when you come outside with your bucket of kitchen scraps or whatever your materials are for composting. You just throw them right in, put the lead back on, give it a tumble and you are done. This tumbleweed has galvanized steel legs so they are going to hold up in the outdoor weather. Galvanized steel typically doesn’t rust and the axle in the middle that holds this thing in place is made out of stainless steel and that is another cool feature about this bin. Actually, it is because when you flip it over, the materials are going to go down from the bottom and they are going to fall back down to the bottom when you flip it. And they are going to all pass through that stainless steel rod that is in the center and it helps break up the materials and that helps aerate just a little bit better than a regular compost tumbler and so, you are going to get really good results with it. You do have some aeration holes here. Although the bin itself is not air tight so you are going to get air transfer in there anyway. I have it on a deck right now where I am showing it to you but typically you would keep it over some kind of dirt or grass or something. Because if the compost gets really liquid or wet, it can drain out of the bottom and it might make a little kind of compost stain on your deck or on your cement. This is a great compost tumbler. It is really excellent for composting and if you are not composting already, you should be, why don’t you give it a try.
