Compost Bin: Getting Started

This past Friday I made my way to a certain home improvement store with the plan to buy a large garbage can in order to start my own compost bin.  Because of where I currently live, a bin is necessary.  Luckily, as I was perusing the garden center, I found this:

I talked to the guy in the garden center and he recommended this bin over a trash can and over the turning style composter made by the same manufacturer.  It comes 9 pieces but was easy to transport to my car, fit in my trunk, and took only about 15 mintues to put together.  Here's the finished product:

I've never composted this way, so compared to some of the other "green" habits I've adopted, this is likely the most ambitious right now.  I'm hoping to build a decent-sized vegetable garden in the back yard and this will be a great way to provide the garden with some good, nutritious, natural fertilizer while reducing the amount of kitchen waste that goes into our garbage pail.