I want to make compost but I don't own a compost bin. Suggestions?

The compost "pile" is a time-honored method. I have three piles going. One I'm adding to, one that's "cooking", and one that I'm harvesting from. It helps if you have a place that's out of public, or your neighbor's view, just to be nice. But a container is totally NOT necessary. They're more for making it aesthetically pleasing.

you can buy a small box for it and put all of it in there and leave it....or dump it into a pile , NEVER put food of any kind in a compost bin unless you want a s**t ton of hornets and ants !

Hi, I'm a lazy gardener. I'm also stuck with a concrete yard, so my garden is nothing but containers, including my composter. My composter became a composter by accident. It used to be our very large plastic trash can, but before I started gardening, I had to sweep the leaves, buttonwood fuzz, and trash that blew in our yard, so it didn't clog our drain. I simply dumped all that into the garbage can over the years, and never used the container for actual trash bags. When we decided to garden, I decided I needed a real place to throw away dead plants and weeds. When I opened the lid, I had beautiful soil stuck among roof shingles that blew in our yard years before. I removed the shingles and used the soil. I drilled a few holes in the bottom, so I could leave the lid off to keep throwing stuff in it. Eventually, we noticed weeds grew well in there, so we stopped throwing weeds in. 4-5 years ago, a bird dropped an earthworm in our yard, so I threw it in. Now we have worms galore and have to add compost from the kitchen - coffee grinds, potato and carrot shavings, bananas, the little stumps from the top of fresh strawberries, lettuce...whatever is left of fresh produce but without seeds. (Ended up growing an acorn squash plant the summer after throwing acorn squash shells and seeds in it, but it got so big, it was hard to get out our door or down the little alleyway where our hose has to be turned on. lol) Also, don't throw anything stinky in it, for your sake. Worms don't care. lol Now we go out of our way to feed the worms. They're hungry little guys. Also pill bugs and roaches help turn the stuff into wonderful soil. If we don't feed them enough, they escape into any loose soil in the yard. We don't turn too often - hard to get down into it. (And, we're both disabled, so we don't have the strength to do it often.) But, come springtime, we can usually get enough good soil out of the bottom to fill 1-2 5-gallon buckets. After all these decades, I don't know what size container it is, but construction size trash bags would have a hard time fitting in it. And, so you know about how much stuff goes in there - there are only two adults living in our home, and our garden is a 16' X 16' container garden. I hear grass clippings are great to put in compost, but we don't get grass often. (I pull 1-3 stalks out of my containers per year. lol)

Hi, I'm a lazy gardener. I'm also stuck with a concrete yard, so my garden is nothing but containers, including my composter. My composter became a composter by accident. It used to be our very large plastic trash can, but before I started gardening, I had to sweep the leaves, buttonwood fuzz, and trash that blew in our yard, so it didn't clog our drain. I simply dumped all that into the garbage can over the years, and never used the container for actual trash bags. When we decided to garden, I decided I needed a real place to throw away dead plants and weeds. When I opened the lid, I had beautiful soil stuck among roof shingles that blew in our yard years before. I removed the shingles and used the soil. I drilled a few holes in the bottom, so I could leave the lid off to keep throwing stuff in it. Eventually, we noticed weeds grew well in there, so we stopped throwing weeds in. 4-5 years ago, a bird dropped an earthworm in our yard, so I threw it in. Now we have worms galore and have to add compost from the kitchen - coffee grinds, potato and carrot shavings, bananas, the little stumps from the top of fresh strawberries, lettuce...whatever is left of fresh produce but without seeds. (Ended up growing an acorn squash plant the summer after throwing acorn squash shells and seeds in it, but it got so big, it was hard to get out our door or down the little alleyway where our hose has to be turned on. lol) Also, don't throw anything stinky in it, for your sake. Worms don't care. lol Now we go out of our way to feed the worms. They're hungry little guys. Also pill bugs and roaches help turn the stuff into wonderful soil. If we don't feed them enough, they escape into any loose soil in the yard. We don't turn too often - hard to get down into it. (And, we're both disabled, so we don't have the strength to do it often.) But, come springtime, we can usually get enough good soil out of the bottom to fill 1-2 5-gallon buckets. After all these decades, I don't know what size container it is, but construction size trash bags would have a hard time fitting in it. And, so you know about how much stuff goes in there - there are only two adults living in our home, and our garden is a 16' X 16' container garden. I hear grass clippings are great to put in compost, but we don't get grass often. (I pull 1-3 stalks out of my containers per year. lol)

you can buy a small box for it and put all of it in there and leave it....or dump it into a pile , NEVER put food of any kind in a compost bin unless you want a s**t ton of hornets and ants !