The Vermihut bin doesn’t come with worms, which you’ll have to buy separately.
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Plus, she says, the final product - rich compost full of red worms - “brings joy to most gardeners.” You can add or remove trays as necessary, and at its fullest capacity, the VermiHut can process up to five pounds of food scraps per day. Diane Miessler, permaculture designer and author of Grow Your Soil, recommends the bin, with the caveat that “worm bins require some simple maintenance to keep them thriving and odorless,” but the system scales well to the volume of food scraps you’re processing. “We used some to top up our houseplants, too, which made them very perky and bright,” she says.īest for an indoor or semi-outdoor space like a garage or closed porch, the Vermihut composting system is another option for producing your own compost. Plus, Corsillo says that she was “shocked” by how well her plants responded to her homemade compost: Her calendula plants “went crazy, filling in the large areas of empty soil and bursting out over the edges” of their planter. That makes it easier to use for everyone in the family, especially my parents,” Corsillo says. She also appreciates its raised design: “I like that it is completely contained and elevated to keep mice or rats at bay and that it stands at waist height, so it doesn’t require any bending down to fill or turn.
Corsillo bought the Yimby tumbler while tending a COVID victory garden and reports that, a year and a half later, it’s “surprisingly weather-resistant…it hasn’t rusted or lost its original sheen” and still spins smoothly. It has two chambers, the style favored by Marisa DeDominicis, co-founder and executive director of Earth Matter NY. The FCMP Yimby tumbler is a durable and reliable option - and surprisingly affordable. We’ve included some outdoor composting options on this list that aren’t strictly tumblers, some of which are engineered to work efficiently with one chamber - or, in the case of a worm-powered composter, have as many as five trays for loading new scraps. “Two chambers mean you can get one batch of compost going while still adding fresh food scraps to a new batch, yielding finished compost faster,” explains Strategist writer Liza Corsillo. (For reference, a standard countertop compost bin holds about a gallon, and a large-ish kitchen trash can holds about 15 gallons.) One thing to note is that compost decreases in volume over time by as much as 70 or 80 percent, so more space will become available in your compost tumbler as scraps break down.ĭual or single chamber: Some options on our list have multiple chambers, which is helpful if you’re adding new scraps to your tumbler semi-regularly and want to separate fresh vegetable ends from the semi-broken-down organic matter that’s further along on its way to becoming compost. Most options on our list are between 30 and 100 gallons, which are large enough to process a household’s worth of food scraps. We’ve also included a few other non-tumbler systems that take some of the unpredictability out of the composting process.īest overall | Best with multiple sizes | Best drum | Best stationary | Best splurge | Best worm | Best BokashiĬapacity: Compost-tumbler capacity is usually listed in cubic feet or gallons we’re using gallons here for easier conversion from kitchen and trash measurements. A compost tumbler “spins around in various ways, rolling or churning your browns and greens in there and speeding things up in terms of decomposition,” says Louie. But if you want to shield your compost from hungry wildlife and unpredictable weather - and streamline the process of “turning” compost, necessary to aerate vegetable scraps, to eliminate the need for a pitchfork - tumblers and other compost systems come in handy. But if you have some outdoor space - and want to save on fertilizer by keeping the plant-enhancing end product to use in your garden - consider a composting system, which takes your kitchen and yard waste all the way from fresh scraps to rich, dark soil.īackyard composting can be as simple as nailing together some scrap lumber to contain a pile, then introducing a good balance of nitrogen-rich “greens” (produce, grass clippings, et cetera) and carbon-rich “browns” (for example, cardboard, shredded newspaper, and dried leaves). If you live in a municipality with a composting program, the process can be as simple as dropping off scraps curbside or at a designated site. “Composting is the human version of recreating what Mother Nature does out in the wild: mixing together various organic materials” to decompose into a nutrient-rich soil, says Rebecca Louie, founder of the Compostess website and author of Compost City.
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