Composting - turning advice please

I did it. I turned about 80% of heap1 into bin2.
Most of it was just grass clippings steaming away but i guess it gets the bacteria commuting along the mouldy road into everything else.

i now have 2 cool heaps with loads more green stuff on top. I clipped round the lawn edges and created another barrowload or 2 to go on. I'm hoping for some sunshine to heat them both up and get things going again.
And when I next go to the tip I'll pick up some 'oss muck on the way back to chuck on.
If only I'd realised the joys of composting sooner. Do the OU do a degree in it ?

Rob

You see, it's not just me ... :!:

I LOVE compost.  Don't know why, I think it's just the wholesomeness of it - nothing wasted, everything going back into gorgeous black goodness.  Most people get chickens for the eggs; I got mine 'cause I wanted their poo for my compost  :?

On a more practical note - you don't sound to be putting much cardboard in your heap, Rob - inner tubes from kitchen and toilet rolls transformed my compost bin.

And there's the title for my next book ...

Just remembered. We have to rip up the toilet roll tubes to get them off the holder. Bad design.

Got plenty of woody old stems and small twigs to keep it open but of course they won't rot down much.

I am concerned that it was mostly grass rotting down and might have started to get anaerobic. I want to do it properly.

Rob

Once the inner tube is off, you can get the sprung holder off but with a roll on there you can't get your fingers onto it to spring it. I think.  :?

Just remembered. We have to rip up the toilet roll tubes to get them off the holder. Bad design.

Got plenty of woody old stems and small twigs to keep it open but of course they won't rot down much.

I am concerned that it was mostly grass rotting down and might have started to get anaerobic. I want to do it properly.

Rob

Erm ... now I'm confused  :?   The toilet roll tubes will still help your compost even if they're in little tiny weeny (sorry, probably wrong choice of word :shock: ) bits ...

Just any old tissues or pieces of kitchen roll (as long as they haven't got cooked/raw food waste on them), bits of uncoloured cardboard, if you work in an office or shred your own bits of correspondence that's great too (and the ultimate in confidential disposal :!: ).  Newspaper - best scrumpled up into balls - that helps with the structure & keeps air in, rather than putting it in as flat pages which start to stick together and don't break down properly.  You just need to make sure you have a good balance between 'green' and 'brown'.  Plus of course your litter from your chicken house which is the best addition of the lot, even if you don't have much

Sorry; told you I was a compost fan  :oops: Do you think I'll pass the exam?  :?

I'll start a cardboard and paper collection. Got loads of weeding and unwanted plant pulling to go yet so I'll need lots to balance it all.

I'm sticking with my 2 wooden efforts for now. Don't want to add to expense at the moment. They don't do anything like that free.

I need to source another bit of carpet to keep them cosy at night. Can't have the heap shivering can we ?
We don't get a lot of chick poo at any one time. About a sandwich bag full every day. Makes the sarnies taste funny mind you  :shock:

Thanks again

Rob