Melon Pit Collecting Bucket

I may have solved one of my questions from reading David the Good's "Compost Everything." I love his melon pit idea, but struggled with how much compost material it would take to occupy the bottom of a 3' deep by 3' wide hole. That's a lot of stuff. While out at the "farm and home" store this morning, I walked past this guy, and said to myself, "That would hold a lot of compost material! And so there it sits on my back porch, just waiting for juicy fish guts, dead lettuce, dog poop, and rotten vegetables. It's going to smell wonderful when the lid comes off, but hopefully it'll only have to come off a few times and I'll hold my breath while it is open.

I'll keep y'all posted on this stinky Good project.

j

p.s. Nugget approves of this container.

Right now all of our compostibles go in such a bucket, because we don't have room to get our own system going, so we take it down to my MIL's house periodically.  We have a second bucket with lid full of compost, which we get from her house after its finished, so even though we can't have our own composting going at home yet we can at least use her system and add to it.