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  • From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: IT'S COOKING!!!!!
  • Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 07:44:45 -0500


You big farmers can delete this--this post is for backyard gardeners
or the very small growers--anyone interested in barrel composting.

I made my own barrel for composting--like those you see advertised for
$3/400. I just got it finished on Saturday, and filled it, and went
out last night & temps had already
reached 105*!! It works!!

I took a 55 gal, plastic soft drink barrel & cut out the lid. I used
this as a pattern to make another lid of untreated wood which I
fastened to the top with 4 eye bolts on the barrel's side & bungee
cords. Along the insides, I screwed 3 24" baffles of untreated 1x6,
and drilled drain holes along the bottom & top, near the very edge.
Last, I painted the whole thing black to absorb heat.

Now it's heating up and we'll see how fast this baby cooks!! Anyone
hungry??!!

Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville NC
ICQ 46954468





  • IT'S COOKING!!!!!, Elizabeth Pike, 02/22/2000

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