1.   Four compost bins are maintained at various levels of Decomposition.

2.   These damaging pests have found that your compost bin is a lovely place to hide and shelter.

3.   A climbing frame adjoins the grass while that awkward, narrow gap at the back of the garage is the ideal place for a small compost bin.

4.   Break them up, shred them if possible and toss them in the compost bin.

5.   Call your department of public works to see if it sells compost bins, and also to see if it has a municipal composting program.

6.   Demeece and Sally, the neighbors who gave me the compost bin, have a dog, a cat and a major composter that makes their backyard soil ultra-rich.

7.   For information on how to construct a compost bin, contact your local botanical garden or community garden.

8.   If you are enough of a Martha Stewart to want to build your own wooden obelisk or decorative compost bin, these are for you.

9.   If you drill them with holes, they make perfect planters -- or compost bins.

10.   Leave the needles in the garden in spring, shred the boughs and add to your compost bin.