On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:31:38 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:59:26 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:52:03 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:
>>
>snip
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>>>Normally, my husband would take it out and bury the stuff in the
>>>"real" compost pile. This year all composting shut down as piles and
>>>tumblers froze solid.
>>>Janet
>>
>>We could have tolerated the temps, but it was the 4+ feet of snow in
>>the yard all winter that prevented the trek from house to bins (only
>>one tumbles, that is my favorite).
>>
>>Boron
>
>My daughter gave me the tumbler available at Costco for Mother's Day
>last year. The other tumbler is so darn big I can't reach high enough
>to get the door back on (bad arm). The compost pile (12 feet x 5
>feet) is the "man and dog" thing. They tend it and turn it all winter
>long (usually), but this year it was too cold too long. The tumblers
>are for kitchen and garden waste. The pile is leaves and grass
>clippings.
>Janet

We got our composters at Costco, too. I have the tumbler and one that
is just a bottomless cube. I can get the tumbler going with some
effort, but turning the interior of the cube is a PITA.

We've a small yard now and I do not have enough input for a plain old
pile. Used to at the old house...I also remember one spring going out
there with a pitchfork to spread some goodies on the garden, dug in
and upended a whole family of rabbits that had burrowed in for the
warmth. I screamed, the rabbits went flying...what an event.

Boron