i need to find out all the info i can about it for my garden this summer….any help from people who use one themselves.

I like to use the newer spinning/rotating style of composting bins. As I found I was lazy about my composting and would always forget to rotate the contents of my big ugly backyard compost bin. So getting rich compost for my garden seemed to take forever.

With a new rotating style one every time I walk by it while working in the garden I just give it a spin..and my job is done without having to dig out the pitch fork..dig and churn up the old compost pile..in the end I now get rich compost alot faster.

I would like to start off with recycling glass(crushing what would be normally unusable bottles and then then reselling the crushed glass back to bottle makers), I would then move on to plastics, steel, aluminum and then biomass resulting with methane and compost as by products. I want to start off small and then build my way up. Using the success and profits from recycling effort to finance the other. Since there is no serious recycling effort in my country the potential is there for limitless financial sustainability. I just need to know how to get started. Thanks for your contributions.

I would start by researching the ways to recycle glass bottles. This can be done over the internet with some good searches. I would then contact some of the bottle makers to see how you could ship the glass there. Look in your own country for other opportunities to recycle glass as well. There may be more markets for it then you realize (it might not be a bottle company).

Reality check.

The philippines has good sound laws but corrupt political influences always delay the implementation of these laws.

By the time these laws are enforced, they become so obsolete that another law must be passed (just like the politicians who regularly pass gas – i.e. fart through their mouth).

someone posted a question a couple of weeks ago regarding compost versus compost tea.
people were talking about soaking bags of compost/manure in buckets of water, and experimenting using this and regular compost plants as an experiment.

i would like to point out that there are two very different types of deomposition (mineralization): aerobic and anaerobic. the difference is presence of oxygen. generally, it is recommended to stick with aerobic (with oxygen) compost, tea or pile. anaerobic compost/tea can be pathogenic (make you sick).
i think if you’re going to experiment, do it with aerobic vs. anaerobic compost/tea. for tea you’ll need air pumps and bubble makers. i haven’t made tea yet, but have read about it. read Teaming With Microbes. also, trees like fungus likes carbon (browns), and veggies like bacteria like nitrogen/sugar (greens). prepare/apply accordingly. still, compost is compost is good. also, landfill compost may contain heavy metals or plastics that plants absorb.

You raise an important point, about the availability of oxygen, and the decomposition process.

The key thing with compost tea that I use, is that it is a by product of my overall compost making, and only takes minutes to make. I wait for the compost to be largely decomposed, and then allow water to pass through it, whilst dissolving many of the valuable nutrients that it contains. The compost doesn’t have to be steeped in water for days, making it sour and anaerobic, which would be detrimental.

Once the tea’s made, the compost that it comes from can continue its process, later to be incorporated within the garden (albeit with some nutrients removed, from the ‘tea’ that was made). As the compost is then able to allow air – and thus oxygen – to enter it, it continues aerobic decomposition.

Obviously someone could steep their compost in water, to make a tea, for as long as they wished, but I follow a fairly quick process, somewhat like making tea, which leaves the compost in good health.

Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob

I have two combo compost tumblers/compost tea makers. In both, the compost has stopped breaking down. They say the process should take a few weeks. It’s been months with two big black blobs in these tumblers. I tried activator.
We had been putting food scraps (all vegetable, some egg shells) in them. Put some shredded paper in last fall. We haven’t put anything in through the winter.

Put in some earth. Introducing the microbs that facilitate decomposition. Should be a ratio of one part organic matter, one part earth and one part green matter. Must be turned frequently and kept moist but not wet..