Some Resources for this Blog

Books:
Victory Garden and Crockett's Flower Garden by James Underwood Crockett, Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash, Groundwork, A Gardener's Ecology and The Practical Gardener: Mastering the Elements of Good Growing by Roger B. Swain.

Dish Satellite Network:
DIY Network - Fresh from the Garden with Joe Lamp'l, Fresh From the Orchard with Kelly Givens; HGTV - People, Places & Plants with Roger Swain, Paul Tukey; Gardening by the Yard with Paul James, PBS - This Old House Hour, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home.

Building the Jim Crockett Memorial composter (part 2)

These are the four finished sides installed on two 2x4 pieces of lumber nine feet long. My wife and I put these together in the rear of the garden. A third nine foot 2x4 was screwed down across the top rear of the composter to make it more ridged. Rabbit wire was stapled to the back of each "square".

Then, more rabbit wire is placed all along the rear of the composter.

The only thing left at this point is to make the front panels to the individual bins so the compost will not spill out the front as it is piled up inside the bins.

Building the Jim Crockett Memorial composter

This is the composter that I recently built for my wife and I to use for our vegetable and flower gardens.

I used the plans for it from Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett. All the parts used to build it were available at my local Home Depot.

This first photo shows two of the four sides to the compost bins. The composter has three seperate bins in which to hold your compost at various stages of breakdown.

The first bin holds all of my fresh composting material such as grass, leaves, kitchen waste and any other organic material found on my property. The second bin holds the partially composted material that is turned over into it from the first bin. And the third bin holds the finished compost ready to use.