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Air and moisture are key to faster composting. You will find aeration is a snap with the bag. The fabric allows air to thoroughly permeate the compost. Even when bags are piled on top of one another, air keeps flowing even into the hard-to-reach core due the spaces and crevices created with the bags. Keeping the pile nicely moist is also easier. If watering is needed, just water right through the bag. Water will also run along the fabric threads to evenly distribute the water throughout the pile. With a covering over the bags or a compost bin or tumbler to contain the bags, the moist, well-oxygenated environment created will cause thriving colonies of microorganisms to digest and grow with great vigor. The only work you do is leave it to "cook" with an occasional watering when too dry. This is about as less work as it gets! However, if you feel the bags need turning simply flip them over. Instead of having to shovel finished compost into a wheelbarrow to take to the garden, just take a bag directly to the garden. When brewing compost tea, just dunk the whole bag in. Use it to for gathering kitchen scraps to take to the compost pile.
Watch this spot for an instructional video on the bag. We hope to have it up by around Sep 23 2010.
No Need for Extra Tumblers to Separate Raw from Finished Composts. Compost tumblers are batch composters. That means they work best if you keep the lid on and not add any new material. When you add material you keep delaying the finish date. You have to finish one batch before you can start another one. Thus, many people buy two or more tumblers to fill one up while the other is cooking. Or they buy a dual chamber tumbler. This gets expensive and takes up space. With our bags, you just use one tumbler with compost at many stages of finish for continuous batches of compost. You will also find tumbler turning to be an effort. Wet compost is quite heavy. For some tumblers you really have to muscle the tumbler to turn it. After a while, turning becomes another chore. The main reason for the turning is to incorporate air into the compost material. If not turned, the packed material would not have the air needed for composting. With the air spaces and crevices created by the bags, you just let the compost material sit as it aerates without any turning at all. Since that is what tumblers really do - to incorporate air with the turning, you actually do not need to buy any expensive tumblers either! Furthermore, what more can be said about the bags making it easier to take the compost out from the tumbler? Shoveling compost out from a tumbler is not easy.
Patents Pending
Use With Pile Composting
It’s Easier To Turn Bags Than to Turn a Pile! Turning a forkful at a time to move material from the pile to another location and then putting it back, while also inverting and fluffing it, is tough, back breaking work. You only have to flip over bags. The main reason you would want to flip the bags is to rotate the outer drier bags toward the center to expose them to moisture. This is too much trouble. If you were to wrap the pile, you would have created a biosphere of moisture-laden air. You do not have to flip at all!
Use With Bin Composting
No Need for Extra Bins to Place Compost After Turning. In open bin composting, instead of moving material from one place and then back again, the material would be turned over into a second composting bin. Sometimes there would be a third bin to hold finished compost. With bags, all you need is one bin.
Use With Container Composting
Less Mess - Just Lift Bags. Containers may be used as holders for raw material to be taken to a compost pile later or as a "dump and leave" composting bin. But there is no doubt about it. Compost material is messy. Compost material will get on everything, clinging everywhere. This is true not only with container composting but other composting methods as well. Bags will keep the mess down for all of them.
The open fabric weave and spacing between bags provide for good air flow necessary for aerobic decomposition as characterized by that "earthy smell" - no more vinegary, garbage smell! The open weave allows you to water through the bag. In addition, water will run along the fabric fiber to help distribute water evenly over the material. Without the bag, water will usually either run off or concentrate at where you put the water.
The bag can be used over and over. The bag is made of strong, durable Coolaroo® fabric that will last for years. Seams are double-stitched with GORE™ TENARA® outdoor threads that will not rot. Straps are of long-lasting polypropylene straps.
We have two sizes to fit various requirements. We have a medium size 20 3/8" width x 26" high bag that holds 9 gallons or 1.13 bushels of material. It will fit into many commercial bins and tumblers and into kitchen containers for carrying out scraps to a composter. We have a large size 27" width x 32" high bag that can hold 18 gallons or 2.25 bushels of material for those having larger containment needs.
Choose based upon how much weight you are able to handle. If you use it as a compost storage bag and fill it completely with compacted damp compost, the large bag can get pretty heavy, weighing 50 - 80 lbs. However, if used as a composting bag, it will weigh less since you will be filling it with a mix of green and brown material. When the compost is finished, the bulk will be approximately half of what you started with. The medium bag, being half the capacity, will weigh half as much.
