Originally Posted by
Slippy
I've never heard of a compost pile catching actual fire!
Our old piles were just that, piles of grass clippings, leaves, sticks, bark mulch, pine straw etc. About once a year I'd add a few shovel loads to the raised beds.
The problem was that the piles were not "concentrated" and I don't think we were getting good composting.
You can buy an inexpensive barrel made of plastic and add your compost materials and it will do fine. But for us, the size of our raised bed gardens will now require a much larger area to produce good compost.
I plan to add at least 2 more bins the size of the bin that I just made and rotate out the compost.