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Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler Rotating Compost Bin - Green
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| Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler Rotating Compost Bin - Green |
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| Manufacturer: Tumbleweed |
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| List Price: $199.99 |
| Sale Price: $179.99 |
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The Tumbleweed Compost Maker was member tested and recommended by the National Home Gardening Club. The Tumbleweed makes compost faster and easier. There is no need to fork or lift when you use the Tumbleweed. You can make rich compost in as little as 21 days. Great for grass clippings and kitchen waste. Tumbleweed's unique bin rotates around the stainless steel rod which runs through the middle. During tumbling, the patent pending breaker bar breaks up tumbling contents. This creates an aerobic action that offers a quicker and odorless form of composting.
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Product Details |
- Produces compost in as few as 21 days.
- Rotating barrel composter with a steel rod.
- Breaks down the material quicker & improve aeration.
- Sturdy, galvanized tubular steel legs.
- Two animal-resistant twist lock vented lids.
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 Great Product - Buy 2! |
| Review Date: January 18, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Lori Reeser, Sunnyvale, California |
We have just gotten our second one. This is a great product because we can just push to tumble instead of using a shovel or rake or special compost turner. Since we both have back problems that just didn't work.
It works real well even in the shade. We have ours on the north side of our house (in CA) so it takes longer than four weeks, but it still works. It does get fruit flies and other insects and worms, but we haven't had problems with rodents or raccoons, which do live in the area. If you don't put meat or fat in it, it doesn't smell like food, it smells like dirt, so mammals aren't attracted.
However once you get it filled you do need to let it sit and compost without adding anything else (it helps to keep turning). Then you need to find a place to store the compost and to move it, which was too strenuous for us. So our solution was to buy two, one for storage, one for putting new stuff in. The second one doesn't take up a lot of extra space because they both use the same space to rotate.
So start with one, then when you find out how easy it works you'll want the other one.
We ordered ours through Planet Natural and it came quickly and in good shape. It's real easy to put together (but you do need 2 people) and not that heavy when empty (about 30 pounds). |
Easiest Way to Compost!
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| Review Date: September 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: JP, Seattle |
| I was convinced that I wouldn't be one of those people who wouldn't tend to a compost pile properly when I tried composting the old-fashioned way, turning the pile every few days. But it got to be too back-breaking for my body, and took so long to get a small amount of compost. After hemming and hawing about the cost of one of these Tumbleweeds for a year or more, I finally got one. Then I realized to do the job right and get the most compost possible, it would really be better to have two. So I bit the bullet and did it. And I've now got a composting assembly line going here, with a new batch of compost every month. I'm so happy with it. My garden flowers seem to have perked up already, and I'm brewing up some batches to mulch for the fall & winter as well as feed my veggie beds. This product is pricy but worth it! Recycling at its finest! :) |
Great composter
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| Review Date: September 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: A. Adams, San Jose, CA |
| This is our first composter. I have made compost on the ground, in piles, in the past. Our current property lacks a good spot for a pile on the ground, so I purchased this one. I am 5'7 and not particularly strong, but I have no problems turning it. Once it is pretty full, we leave it for about 2 weeks and the compost is done. We dump it into a wheelbarrow for distribution around the garden. I find that it is a little slower in the winter than it is in the summer (our Tumbleweed is black, which we hoped would absorb more heat from the sun). It was easy to assemble, it is holding up very well with long use, and the area is clean (small amounts of coffee grounds might spill through the air slits, but it isn't a huge problem). This was a very good purchase! |
Seems good so far
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| Review Date: October 14, 2008 |
| Reviewer: V. Ward, Dallas, TX United States |
| We keep adding to our composter so I'm not sure if it actually decomposes scraps in ~4 weeks. It sure is fun to fill and spin. So far there is little to no odor. |
New Gardner
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| Review Date: June 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Bonnie, Tennessee |
Tumbleweed Composter
So far every thing that was said about the composter is true. It is easy to use, turn and does not smell. We have not used it long enough to have a finished product but looking forward to the rewards. Kinda wish we had two so one could cook while filling up the other. Highly recommend to anyone interested is such a product. |
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