I just finished the food tower no.5, which is made with:
Height: 1020 mm
Square: 50 x 100 mm (really too big

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Wire Ø: 2,2 mm
This one is in fact not so ideal compare with no.1~4, I will use this one in my vegetable patch but not for chicken.
As these towers are built to provide some fun and greens for chickens, i don't have too high standard

, I understand clearly those materials used inside the tower will need time to decompost and not perfect like the finished compost, but i don't care, here is not the place I will take performance seriously.
Meanwhile, some improvements will make things happen in a better way, and I will dress them in a more detailed way in later posts.
Anyway, it's how tower no.5 looks like, a bit funny
As mentioned in earlier posts, whatever left on the ground will be used as filling, plus the soil from old pots. All chicken poo are in, as a source of nitrogen.
Earlier we also discussed if the compost will be too hot, here comes the evidence, it won't be too hot - the open structure and not so many green materials foresee such outcome. The temperature today is about 19 degree C, within the tower the temperature is only a little bit higher.
In such an open compost system, the decomposition is carried out under moderate temperatures by mesophilic microorganisms, it won't get a chance to enter thermophilic phase. In other words, eventually things will still decompost after a much longer time, but the low decompost temperature will not kill weed seeds.
This time only grass seeds from about 50cm height above, on the outer ring area.
On the very top, I directly sowed some mixed vegetable seeds, water them and then cover with a thin layer of compost.
Now, just wait and see what this one will turn into