08-14-2021, 08:07 PM
I live in a shipping container. There is effectively only one long room. As long as there is a few inches of mulchy stuff above the liquid level it does not smell. If you feel strongly about it, empty the bucket daily. I usually go about a week.
Build the box described in the humanure book with a 5 gallon bucket inside. You can get a seat that snaps into a 5 gallon bucket but it is hard to use and makes the already small hole even smaller. I have one wood box with one active bucket inside it. I keep 2 or 3 buckets with dry cover materials along the wall. I have a 72" x 72" piece of fiberglass window screen that I lay out on the driveway in the sun to dry the grass clippings on. One full bag from my lawnmower pretty much covers this when spread out a couple of inches thick and in turn this fills the 2 or 3 buckets previously mentioned. You need to keep mowing the lawn though because it is desirable to have a decent sized compost pile to bury the humanure in.
Always use relatively new buckets. Retire any that might have seen too much sun.
Beware if you have fire ants....
Build the box described in the humanure book with a 5 gallon bucket inside. You can get a seat that snaps into a 5 gallon bucket but it is hard to use and makes the already small hole even smaller. I have one wood box with one active bucket inside it. I keep 2 or 3 buckets with dry cover materials along the wall. I have a 72" x 72" piece of fiberglass window screen that I lay out on the driveway in the sun to dry the grass clippings on. One full bag from my lawnmower pretty much covers this when spread out a couple of inches thick and in turn this fills the 2 or 3 buckets previously mentioned. You need to keep mowing the lawn though because it is desirable to have a decent sized compost pile to bury the humanure in.
Always use relatively new buckets. Retire any that might have seen too much sun.
Beware if you have fire ants....