"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:31:38 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> > wrote:
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>>On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:59:26 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:52:03 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:
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>>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.

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