Thanks to needing more compost for the whole no-dig process, and attempting to compost more material, it was becoming obvious that my three compost bays just weren’t sufficient. I’d also decided that I should have a more organised process for composting too, in that although it’s not necessary it does help on the scale that I work at to turn the compost at some point, usually late Autumn.
I decided that if I had five bays then starting with them all empty I could begin by filling the second bay from one end, then third and so on down the line. If I additionally made the bay dividers removable then in the Autumn I could remove the divider between bays one and two to make it easier to move the compost between then, replace it once everything was moved, then remove the next one and so on.
Finally, to stop it all getting wet and soggy during the winter a roof would be ideal, and as it happened I had some old wrinkly plastic roofing lying about that once upon a time I used as cloches.
The walls of the existing bays were made of corrugated sheet and there were enough internal ones to extend the external walls if I removed them. I made new inner walls from scrap decking. Here I’m halfway through the job. I must have a photo of it all completed somewhere. Doubtless it will turn up later.
The new front and rear posts I bought in the right sizes and I had a couple of spare tall posts that could replace two of the existing shorter front ones, those replaced ones being subsequently bolted onto the remaining short ones to make them taller.