A New Compost Pile

Perhaps only a gardener will understand my joy this week.
I have a new compost pile - no even better than that I have a new compost structure.
This is what my compost pile used to look like:

Slapped together by me, held up with concrete blocks and made out of anything I could find. The pile on the left used to have walls - they blew down in a storm.
Construction is not my strong suit.





This past week, my husband made a new compost structure.





Three three foot by three foot sections - one for putting scraps in, one that's "cooking" and one to use, with a cute picket fence front that is actually three gates to access the piles!
Loads of aeration from the netting on all sides.

And I think it is just pretty!


How brilliant is this? (And how cute that he put the picket fence around the sides too!)

I was so thrilled that I didn't mind at all moving the two existing piles into the new bin.

Here is a view of the gate opened in the "ready for garden" pile.

And instead of in the middle of the yard, it is tucked neatly next to the fence behind a little birch tree (that used to be behind the old compost). To the right is my leaf compost bin.  I cannot tell you how happy this scene makes me. I love my compost pile!