The Little Blue Composter Who Is No More

Our composter ended up working out for us very well -- with a minor caveat which I will address very shortly.  But first let me say one does not realize how much one throws away until you have a composter.  In our case we used the compost for our organic waste from meals (stalks from lettuce, egg shells, etc...).  Unfortunately, we had more waste than we could throw into the composter because it was quite small.  After three months roughly we had produced about 1/2 of the drum (25 gallons) of compost and we used it in our raised garden beds. 

We probably would have had more compost except for that caveat I mentioned earlier.  Our composter started to smell like a sewer thanks to the sweltering temperatures of Arizona!  There appeared to be armies of flies amassing at the entrance holes and maggots growing by the hour in our once fertile blue barrel.  Unfortunately, this smell, the flies and maggots was not going over well here in suburbia so the little blue composter went into the big black trash bucket and is no more.  We really miss him and wish him the best.