| Compost tumblers have been around since | | | | and paper. You may also need to shred or chip |
| gardeners learned to appreciate the importance of | | | | the items, you can use shredder or chipper. |
| compost and the necessity to put air into. Before, | | | | Third, put all the materials onto the tumbler with |
| aerating requires a shovel and lots handwork. With | | | | the right ratio. The most ideal is fifty percent |
| the help of tumblers, turning and aerating is a | | | | green materials and fifty percent brown materials. |
| breeze. So how do you speed up the composting | | | | A balance of these materials will get rid of |
| process of your organic materials by using | | | | unpleasant odor. If imbalance in materials takes |
| tumblers? | | | | place, an ammoniac odor occurs; this is caused by |
| The first thing to do is put up the tumbler and | | | | the building up of nitrogen. Too much of the green |
| installs it in a solid, leveled surface, be it on pavers, | | | | materials then is not good. |
| bricks, or concrete pads. This helps in securing the | | | | You can counter the odor by adding dried leaves, |
| device so as to avoid spillage and unnecessary | | | | pine needles, and wood ash. |
| skipping of odor. | | | | Fourth, cover the materials with water until |
| Second, gather and prepare all your organic. | | | | sponge-like dampness is achieved. And finally, |
| Preparation includes separating the green from the | | | | close the unit and use the tumbler according to its |
| brown. Green materials include those that are rich | | | | instructions. The best way to achieve good |
| in nitrogen like grass clippings, manure, garden | | | | compost under little time is to rotate the device |
| refuse, tea, coffee grounds, and hair. Brown | | | | at least three times a week. Instructions vary |
| materials are those rich in carbon like woody | | | | from product to product. The fastest you can |
| branches, sawdust, straw, fall leaves, dried grass, | | | | probably get is 14 days. |