Comments on: Build Your Own Compost Bin from Reused Shipping Pallets

By: jeanne

jeanne — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:59:11 +0000

p.s. I do keep it nice and damp.

By: jeanne

jeanne — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:58:04 +0000

I rent. So a bin that size is going to cause quit a stir. I just started composting a pile of stuff I normally throw down the garbage disposal. No meat, citrus or dairy though. I have been adding stuff to this pile for 3 years. It’s about 18′ high. I do try and throwsome brown dried stuff on it as well green stuff like comfrey every now and then. I make comfrey tea too and pour it on the pile. It really starts it cooking and the bacteria love it. Breaks down pretty darn fast. Or just the leaves. I added some red wigglers for good measure and the thing is like the energerizer bunny. It just keeps going and going and going. I have used it for potting soil on several occasions but it never really gets too big. I have my comfrey plants growing right next to it. No body in the complex even knows it’s there. Pretty cool.

By: Tom Parker

Tom Parker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:20:54 +0000

The pallets used for this project are wood pallets. Wood pallets do not have deca. Deca bromine is used as a fire retardent in plastic pallets.

By: Chicago Garden

Chicago Garden — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:50:28 +0000

This is a really neat idea, but before people go making bins and pots out of shipping pallets they should do some research into deca bromide and what the effects of it leaching into your garden and compost would have on you.

Cheers.

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By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:32:54 +0000

I used bungie cords to tie mine together; very cheap, easy, and effective!

By: Terri Herrlein

Terri Herrlein — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:32:03 +0000

I have used this method before, just slung two adjoining pallet stacks together, the middle between the two being one vertical pallet serving as a divider. Just put together with wire hangers or whatever wrapped around. Rustic but effective. Then whenever we threw stuff in we would throw dead leaves on top of each fresh addition of compost material, this did alot to keep odor and pests at bay. Then we would fill the first, then move on to the second compartment, and when that was full the first was ready to use as compost. No turning, no mucking with it. It just composted itself by then.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:07:59 +0000

I built one of these last year, but much rougher. I used 5 pallets to build a 2-unit composter. Because they are set up in the corner of my 6-foot fence, I just stood them up on end, and put a couple of big rocks on the inside — then I stretched some old garden fencing (the kind that you just stick into the ground) across the front to keep the dogs out. It hasn’t tipped over yet, and all that space meant I could get rid of a huge pile in another corner of the yard. I did keep my old square plastic composter near the house for kitchen garbage, and I’m planning to recycle the disappointing round composter into a series of potato planters this spring. My dream of a self-sustaining yard is starting to come true …