Alan Lane explains his simple composting system, which is modular, expandable, self-aerating and best of all, free.
I’ve been collecting boxes full of fruit and vegetable waste from the local greengrocer to make compost—loads and loads of it! So much, in fact, that I found the usual system of piling the vegetable material in a heap—progressively adding more, turning it from time to time, then waiting—was not adequate. I was running into space problems and needed a more efficient system.
I needed a system that was expandable (i.e. modular), so one batch could be composting while another module was being filled, that didn’t need turning and that made efficient use of space. A bonus would be if I could make it out of recycled or discarded materials.
Here’s what I came up with—and it works a treat: a system of multi-level stacks of old car tyres!
Here’s how to do it…
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