Making A Wooden Compost Bin
Drill bits a carpenter s square two pipe clamps and a wood chisel.
Making a wooden compost bin. A compost bin can be the simplest of constructions. We ll show you how to build a compost bin that s attractive. Some gardeners take four wood pallets often available free from shipping companies and stand them on edge to form a square. While these may all vary in small ways the plans tend to share similar features a wooden frame with wood slats chicken wire or hardware cloth.
Here is an easy to make compost bin that you can build with just a saw a drill and a stapler. Constructed compost bins can make an attractive addition to the garden while containing composting operations. The size of a wooden compost bin for a pile to create the right environment for microbes a compost pile should be between 3 5 square feet. It really has a nice farmhouse look to it with its planks and boards and it is perfect for those of you who are new to composting.
Also make use of wood round wooden discs and hardware cloth or metal netting to make cool drum style compost bins that will fit in an additional wooden stand and can also spin around the horizontal axis. The pallets are then nailed or lashed together to form an instant compost bin. There are quite a few compost bin designs available in manuals and on websites. Using a staple gun attach a stake along one of the short edges of your chicken wire.
Making compost in 30 days using pallet wood bins duration. I love this one it is really easy to build and it is so decorative. How to build a compost bin building a yard waste only compost bin cut out a large rectangle of chicken wire. Any smaller and it won t be large enough to hold the heat needed any larger and the bulk of it will stop air from getting to the centre.
Round up a circular saw a coping saw a tape measure a drill driver 1 16 in. Flatten your rectangle of chicken wire onto the ground. When it s full turn the contents into the second compost bin every few days. Fill the first compost bin with compostables like fruit and veggie scraps wood shavings dry leaves or old newspapers.
The compost bin is constructed from five quarter 5 4 rounded edge decking boards. Dig also the garden grounds and make x shaped compost bins in no time dig the space in x shape and then fit the wooden slats inside. Make four stakes out of scrap wood.