What A Load Of …

I am proud to announce that I have a genius inventor son. You can guess where he got his brains from… I can’t, but they’re in excellent logical and processing order

We have been threatening for the past year to start processing all our garden waste into compost. But we haven’t, as yet. Not because we’re lazy (ok, maybe that, too), but because we did not have any proper facility. We have collected and stored the material down in what was previously the  tomato/ mealie garden, but it is simply just that – a dump.

This weekend, Clayton came up with the suggestion: we have a few spare palings, left over from the fence project. How about we use them as a ‘pilot test’ to make a garden composting unit?

To make one inter-locking ‘level’ , we used 4 1200x150mm palings and a piece of scrap 50x50mm stake. The stake was cut into 200mm lengths, and then nailed together to form a 4-legged ’box’ with internally recessed corners, so that the next ‘level’ simply slips down firmly in place.

(Above): The first attempt, showing four levels, totalling 850mm in height.The volume of compost which can be held in this tank is thus: 0.850x1.200x1.200 = 1.224 cubic metres

(Above): A photo of the inside view of the composter, showing how simply each level fits snugly into the level below. A single level can easily be carried around and replaced by one person, while the 4-level unit, as shown above, can be comfortably carried by two people. Once I have tried out the contraption,I will report back my findings.

Patent pending: JA2015/001/0000001/00/1