Terracotta home composter

Step 6:

The terracotta pots can be colored to add to the looks of your terrace garden.

Make sure that the pots do not get totally drenched by rain or over watering or else the composter freaks out and composting process gets out of hand.

Answering the points in step 1

1. They are smelly
Not at all. The holes drilled on the sides circulates ample air to keep it fresh and healthy.

2. They look bad when done at home
Terracotta pots can be colored.

3. But I don’t have a garden
Sell the compost! Better! Gift it to a Gardener friend.

4. it’s not my job (I pay taxes)
Ever body can do it! Do it to save the land fills. Less land fills means more trees!

5. I do not have the time
ust takes 1/2 a day to setup and it sustains by itself.

6. I have tried. It didn’t work
Why not try again!

7. I live in an apartment
You can do it on the terrace, or near the window!

Added after the comments:
Thanks to http://www.dailydump.org/ and their presentations

Comments

[drichard58]

From the pictures it looks like you have put some sort of cording or other material in the holes at the bottoms of the pots. Is this to hold the pots together? Did I miss that in the instructable? Great idea! I have tons of terracotta pots and never enough compost.

[artworker]

The images are taken from http://www.dailydump.org/ The pots that the Dailydump guys have are totally open from the bottom. They use nylon chord mesh (like in a tennis racquet) to hold on to the raw materials. I thought why not drill holes instead into fresh pots. This way we can save on the nylon chords (non biodegradable). I will show my own images once my composter is stebilized. My composter is presently in the first cycle only.

[Myrloc]

How has the composter worked out for you...?

[1Maribelle]

Many thanks. Am now living in an 2nd story apartment so no garden this time and no balcony. Also my city does not offer green bin pick Up at my address - this is Toronto's free food waste pick Up - and after years of being able to give the city y food waste or composting in the garden I do not feel good throwing my food waste in the garbage.

Thanks again for providing such an elegant solution.

[artworker]

You are welcome!

[ubermama]

What a beautiful system! The management would never know what we were doing. I'm actually not sure if we are allowed to compost but who could complain about a system this lovely looking, especially if there are no smells? Thanks for posting and I do hope to try this. I think I may have to also have another composting system since my family is large and we produce a lot of fruit/veggie waste. I have noticed that most of the other systems take about 2 weeks and this one takes 90 days to get compost, which I wouldn't really mind either.

[WickedSpindle]

 What an easy and beautiful compost system. I love the terra-cotta pot construction. Plus it is so easy to construct. I can't wait to make my own and one for my father who pants a huge garden every spring! He's going to Love it.