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Compost Tumbler

‘Going green’ is the buzz phrase in today’s world. Compost Tumbler is one of the best alternatives available in order to make your yard, flower or vegetable garden more organic.

The only major difference between Compost tumblers and compost bin or compost pile, whose principle is quite similar, is that compost tumblers are contained. You just need to put all yard clippings and other organic wastes into it and after a short period of time; you will find much needed compost with all nutrient contents.

Using a Compost tumbler for composting is a better than an open compost approach where nature does play its role.

While in some of the urban areas, open compost bins or piles are not allowed because of practical reasons. The outcome of open composting is a very unpleasant smell of decomposition and it affects your relationships with your neighbors.

Using a compost tumbler in place for open composter is likely to solve such problems as the compost is totally contained. It is easy to handle and maintain as compared to open composters where you have to turn pile physically using shovel or pitchfork. In case of tumbler, you just need to turn the handle provided on tumbler several times.

If the mixture is turned 2-3 times and there is enough moisture content in the compost, it generally takes 14 days to produce compost which much quicker to that produced through a regular compost bin or pile. One more advantage of using it is drastic reduction in the pests as in case of open composting rodents as well as insects etc get attracted towards compost.