RE: NYT - compost tea goes high tech!, composter

Are you referring to those plastic barrel composters-were they one VG?  I,
in my immense ignorance, bought one of those green plastic composters that
you roll to mix.  Huge mistake- maybe my whether just doesn't cooperate-
but, I could never get it mixed well enough, keep it moist, etc.  Ended up
being a big icky mess.  Build myself and compost area with cinderblocks (on
a concrete pad- since that is the only place I have to do this) and poured
every thing out of the barrel into that (including a live rat who apparently
didn't mind having his house rolled around regularly!) and added more grass,
leaves, kitchen greens, etc.  In the past 3 months since I've done this- I
actually for the first time have compost cooking!
So if anyone is just dying of curiousity about those stupid plastic things-
send me the cost of shipping and I'd be happy to send it your way!

Theresa
zone 8-9

P.S.  For those of you wondering- yes I did kill the rat (and throw it in
the TRASH) after it scared the you know what out of me.


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In a message dated 1/13/03 7:22:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:


no - I do it the old fashioned way.  I must admit that the plethora
of high tech compost makers crack me up.  A while back the Wall
Street Journal had an article on no smell compost buckets for the
kitchen and the was another on high speed composters. I put them
under the a sucker born every minute category; I think one had a
heated "oven."


Cheryl,

Victory Garden had composters on this past weekend.  It seems they do a good
job for tiny city gardens.  If you have a some space they do appear to be a
great nuisance plus you need to chop up the waste.  New host talks to the
audience as if you are half an idiot.  There is an accented tool expert
also.
 He also does the damnedest  presentation.  If you need help buying a
trowel,
he is your guy.  I am disappointed with the new incarnation of VG.  It makes
sense, I suppose, that a program supported by commercials (PBS does have
commercials) will try to reach the widest possible audience.  Perhaps
gardening is not for TV.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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