My son-in-law bought me a compost tumbler, a JK 270 to be exact! He has begun selling these Swedish-designed compost tumblers in the US and asked me to blog about my experience with using the tumbler, in hopes to best understand his customers. In this blog, I’ll be sharing what it was like to set it up when I got the composter, how it works, what I found to be challenging and what things were convenient about it. For the record, I have no previous experience with composting, this is completely new for me. I’m excited!

My son-in-law, Niklas’ hope is that this blog will help others who want to learn more about composting, and also for this to be a place where they can discuss their thoughts and share their experiences.

With that said, let’s get ready to TUMBLE!!

January 17, 2011

New year, New chamber.

So I finally filled my first chamber with kitchen waste. Well I actually filled it up last time i wrote but I wanted to have some extra compost to put in the new chamber so I didn't start the second one until I had enough waste to fill put into the first chamber and really fill it to the top.

I started up by taking some of the compost from the first chamber to the second and then I filled up the created space with new kitchen waste. Once I was done with that I kept on dumping the rest of my kitchen waste in the second chamber and mixed it with the compost I already put in there.

This is exciting times for me since it's taken a while to fill up that chamber. I guess I have to thank my neighbors for the extra kitchen waste. I went through thinking maybe if I bought this tumbler on my own I would have gotten the smaller JK 125 but then i read that the JK 270 is a little bit better since its bigger and the heat creates and keeps inside longer. It would be cool to test the smaller one, if get my neighbor to get one, I'm gonna write about it and compare a little bit.
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