{"id":45237,"date":"2019-04-10T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45237"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:46:18","slug":"composting-for-beginners-12-diy-compost-bin-getting-started-50-things-you-can-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45237","title":{"rendered":"Composting for Beginners: $12 DIY Compost Bin, Getting Started, & 50+ Things You Can Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Composting for Beginners: $12 DIY Compost Bin, Getting Started, & 50+ Things You Can Compost <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever priced out those compost bins that you can buy? They have all sorts of bells and whistles, like\u00a0cranks that turn the contents<\/a>\u00a0for you and\u00a0fancy slide-out trays at the bottom<\/a>. They can also\u00a0cost hundreds of dollars<\/a>. Since that was totally out of my budget, I decided to make a simple DIY compost bin for a whole lot less money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, you can always pile of a heap of compost in your yard or garden, and that\u2019s exactly what I did when I lived in the country.  Now that  I\u2019m living in town, I decided I should be a little more civilized. But, not $300-for-a-container-civilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because we have raccoons, foxes, squirrels, groundhogs, and other varmints, I needed a closed container, lest I lure the little $*%#s into my garden. So, I spent $12 to make a compost bin from a 32-gallon latch tote and it only took about 15 minutes. You can get these in all sorts of colors to blend with your fencing or your outdoor decor. I got a happy, cheerful coral color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the easiest DIY ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Make a Super-Easy DIY Compost Bin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drill 6-12 holes in the bottom of your bin, then drill a few holes in each side. (The number of holes will depend on the shape of your bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what mine looked like when I finished drilling the holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, put the lid on the bin to provide a little bit of stability. Finally, drill another half dozen or so holes in the lid of the bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That. Is. It.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you believe how stupid-easy that was?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get your compost off to the right start.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Composting for Beginners: $12 DIY Compost Bin, Getting Started, & 50+ Things You Can Compost Have you ever priced out those compost bins that you can buy? They have all sorts of bells and whistles, like\u00a0cranks that turn the contents\u00a0for you and\u00a0fancy slide-out trays at the bottom. They can also\u00a0cost hundreds of dollars. Since that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[25590,6156,1536],"class_list":["post-45237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-compost-bin","tag-daisy-luther","tag-soil-fertility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45238,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237\/revisions\/45238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}