If you’ve got more compostible materials than you have room for in your composting bin, don’t throw them away. Unused wire tomato cages can make excellent temporary compost bins. It’s a fairly simple process: just wrap the tomato cage in plastic, stick it upright in the ground, and fill it with your composting materials.
Treat the contents as you would any material in an open-air composter, turning and mixing them regularly with a pitchfork or similar tool. When room becomes available in your main compost bin, it’s easy enough to transfer the material in the cage to the main bin.
It’s ugly, but it works!
Really though, wouldn’t you rather just get an additional compost bin? (You know we had to ask!)
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