Built with sturdy, weather resistant cedar frames and galvanized screening and hardware, the Earth Engine Wood Compost Bin offers large capacity, strength, versatility and beauty in your backyard or garden. Adjustable cedar slats make it easy to add or remove materials. Shipped in collapsed form, it requires minimal assembly and is ready for use in approximately 10 minutes. Instructions included.
Unique Features:
• Sturdy, weather-resistant cedar frames
• Galvanized screening & hardware inhibits rust
• Removable cedar slats
• Attractive design
• Hand-crafted construction
Dimensions:
Single – 36″ H x 36″ L x 36″ W (27 cubic feet)
Double – 36″ H x 68″ L x 36″ W (54 cubic feet – shown)
Copyright © 2004-2013
by S. Watson
Two Earth Engine double-bin composters sit side-by-side in our Minneapolis backyard. Now, after the late-ending winter, we can finally start Spring gardening. During those five cold months, we made the twice-weekly walks to the “cold storage bin” in the backyard with the 5-gallon kitchen compost pail. The result: an entire cubic yard of organic waste, packed with over layers of snow. But the first days of May erased the snow completely on top, and the bottom is already usable compost (from warmer April decomposition). It is going directly to our garden beds.
The top layer of partially decomposed material will be moved to the adjacent bin in a few days to begin the next compost pile. After a few more warm weeks, it will travel to the raised flower garden bed out back and to the tomato and zucchini gardens in front of the house. As we work a bare portion of the back lawn this week, some of that first harvest of compost waiting below will be sprinkled and raked into the soil prior to seeding.
Because we kept the organic pile growing over the winter, compost is continually available here from May 1 to mid- September. Every six weeks, kitchen and garden waste is transformed into the granulated humus that enriches soil and retains moisture like a corked jug.
When the garden (and composting) enthusiasm starts to wane in the heat of July and August, I expect the bacterial agents to pick up the slack for this lazy Minneapolis gardener (I just add a little water now and then). Although I occasionally stir the top six inches of the pile into the center (which is good practice and rotates material toward the more active center), the bacterial agents work quickly on the material below, and it shows. The volume of the organic pile is dramatically reduced (one-tenth of the starting volume) in two to three weeks during these hot months.
Our best compost comes from the great diversity of kitchen and yard wastes. That wide variety will in turn create compost to supply the diverse nutrients and trace elements vital to the great variety of plants in our garden.
by Grandpa
this product looks good in my back yard, sure beats the pallets i used to have, much more efficient also. It got here when they said it would.
by Planet Natural Staff
Steve’s Earth Engine is a well built cedar compost bin that is constructed to stand up to the elements and looks great too! While it does not compost as quickly as a “tumbler” it will produce 3-4 batches of beautiful, soil-building compost per year (more if living in a warmer climate than Bozeman).