After nine years of continual use in the South Florida environment, my tumbler has finally rusted through beyond repair. This is an easy to use product which has helped go a long way toward turning a formerly ocean bottom yard into more than sand. Next time, I will use a cover or tarp to try to get even more years of use out of the tumbler.

The general advise provided in a prior review is worth repeating: 1. Making sure the tumbler is full at the start of the process helps. 2. For best decomposition, stop adding your kitchen scraps as the cycle draws to an end, and finally 3) consider setting the raising the legs of the composter onto a reliably stable surface to make dumping without a shovel easier (or use the low tray process suggested in another review).

I’ve adjusted my composting recipe a bit and am now producing really good compost with this compost tumbler. I was using too much newspaper before. I mixed in more sawdust and it’s a lot better.

Pros: This compost tumbler really blends into our yard and does work really quickly. I had a 20 degree change in the core temperature recently. In less than 2 weeks after starting to use this compost tumbler, I had compost that I put on my garden and I also got alot of compost tea to use. It’s easy to spin the tumbler.

Cons: Although it isn’t so bad when you’re filling the tumbler – and you have to really FILL it to get it to work within 2 weeks – but when it’s time to get the finished compost out it’s a bit of a pain. the height is not good for dumping so you really have to use a shovel, which can be a bit of work. We figured out that dumping the compost into a concrete mixing tray worked really well for us.

With the resulting compost, our tomatoes and peppers and zucchini were very happy. i think i hit the spagetti squash with too much tea though. i dont think i diluted it enough. It’s very powerful and needs some dilution

this item is expensive but if you’re serious about composting it really does the job. It is easy to assemble, and there was more plastic than i was expecting but it seems like it will last if you take care of it and don’t throw it around.