On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:59:09 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

>On 26 Apr 2012 14:38:38 GMT, notbob > wrote:
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>>Do any of you rfc'rs do it? If so, how?
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>>I have access to a buncha Mom's old storage containers, some been out in
>>the sun so long they're about to fall apart. Others, newer. Can I
>>utilize these? I can imagine/fab false bottoms and holes. Air
>>circulation. I have most of a 25lb bag o' organic potting soil. Can
>>provide food wastes. I have organic plant food, which is mostly worm
>>casings. Seems to me real worms would be even better.
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>I've no idea what old storage containers have to do with composting.
>I've been composting all my life, what do you want to know? The one
>thing people do that doesn't work is buy those silly rotating drum
>thingies... in order to compost whatever you're composting MUST be in
>contact with the ground... off the ground you're fermenting, not
>composting, huge difference.
....

I hear ya Sheldon. We had simple compost piles in our backyard until
the landlord becaomse concerned with if it would attract rats, etc. So
we got a couple of big plastic trash cans and drilled 1/2 holes in
them, and while doing that I suggested to our upstairs neighbor (I
call her our Agriculatural Goddess!) why don;'t we cut the bottom out
of these cans to the compost will have a good connecton to Mother
Earth! And we did!! Makes 'em a lot easier to empty and mix on the
gronnd, then refill too!

Mother Earth, the biggest composting pile on the planet! In fact it
*IS* the planet! Who woulda thunk it? ;-)

John Kuthe...