Compost heap questions - here, or in the allotment thread?
Foxes have realised that food waste (just veggie stuff - I'm not insane enough to put meat things in the compost) tastes good.
The have trashed the cover of our compost bin (in the middle of the night, while making blood curdling screams) in their quest for more raw onion ends.
When I make a new cover, what is going to work best - Completely enclosed & rain proof, or allowing some rain to get in?
The reason I ask is that when I go to turn it, it is almost bone dry inside, and decomposition seems to take years.
You don't want it bone dry, but there's a balance between it being damp and too wet to strike. If it's slow to decompose it's probably too dry and has too much brown material in it. So you need to add more green matter, so grass cuttings are good, but not overdo it.
Compost heap questions - here, or in the allotment thread?
Foxes have realised that food waste (just veggie stuff - I'm not insane enough to put meat things in the compost) tastes good.
The have trashed the cover of our compost bin (in the middle of the night, while making blood curdling screams) in their quest for more raw onion ends.
When I make a new cover, what is going to work best - Completely enclosed & rain proof, or allowing some rain to get in?
The reason I ask is that when I go to turn it, it is almost bone dry inside, and decomposition seems to take years.
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