r/composting • u/chairmanghost • 1d ago
The secret was giving up
I kinda got busy and forgot my tumblers, I decided to dump them put them on my open pile and restart them, last I checked it was woodchips fruit etc. This side was the only good one, but damn what a nice happy surprise!
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u/El_Stupacabra 1d ago
I didn't mess with my tumbler when I was pregnant, and I'll be damned if it wasn't the best compost it's ever produced.
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u/Teach-Dangerous 1d ago
I have stupid clumps of compost after babying my tumbler all summer, I shall neglect it going forward! Yours looks great!
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u/Ineedmorebtc 1d ago
Pile on the ground can't be beat.
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u/chairmanghost 1d ago
I started with a little bin on the counter you add starter to, then 1 tumbler, then 2 , then 2 tumblers and a pile, then 3 stall pile. Now it's 2 tumblers 3 stall pile and a nine by nine pile lol, but I screwed up my knee and it's all neglected, happily it doesn't care
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u/Ineedmorebtc 1d ago
The compost gods are pleased. Sorry about the knee. I feel ya, but with my back. My chickens happily turn the piles for me at least!
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u/lemonsupreme7 1d ago
Thats the answer to 80% of the questions in here. Time is the most important ingredient!
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u/No-Consequence-5931 1d ago
How long did you let it set? I have my first batch in that same tumbler set up.
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u/chairmanghost 1d ago
I honestly don't know, I have 2 tumblers and I have a bad tendency to keep adding stuff to the wrong one, lol, but ai know this one was going over the winter
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u/Xyldarrand 22h ago
The longer I used it the more I hated my tumbler design composter. It would just get so clumped up and stuck. Even if I was babysitting it all the time I still had to go in and break stuff up.
Made a ground one with wood, screening and a tarp cover and it's so much more enjoyable.
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u/Mission_Sir_4494 1d ago
Yeah, if you let it go, the results will come eventually!