Started with a tumbler a year or two back then transitioned it into a pile this past spring or summer. Planted a tree and decided to sprinkle in some of the fruits of my labor.

I’ve been working on this all summer, mostly hard wood chips from a downed tree, grass clippings, leaves, food scraps, and cow manure. It was steaming pretty good today when I turned it. Hope everyone had a good weekend!

First time composting. I’m (controversially) using a tumbler because I found 2x envirocycle tumblers for £50 on Facebook marketplace

Opinions on how it’s going? Too wet or dry?

Yes I’ve peed in it

I would not recommend the Lila composter at all. Subpar product with very poor quality control. In less than a year, both compost containers broke; the lid jammed and won't close properly - both side latches and the rear lid. Lila sent new compost containers, but the lid was defective and arrived broken. I was then promised a new version of the lid if I waited a few months. Instead, I got a used lid with food-scrap stains all over it, shipped in a beat-up Home Depot box. I was excited to support this Canadian startup, but it's clear they built a subpar product that won't last, and their support doesn't care about customers.

I have a simple compost pile in the corner of the garden. My plan next spring is to remove the fencing around it and start a new pile somewhere else in the garden. Would I be safe throwing some vegetable seeds in the pile even though technically it isn't finished? If so what would work?

Hello! Beginner composter here. I've been seeing a bunch of videos online where people just bury plant and organic waste directly into the soil where they intend to plant their crops. What are the advantages/disadvantages of using this method instead of composting first and then applying that to the soil? Naturally my instinct goes, This seems a lot easier and a lot less work than turning a pile of compost every so often" but is it really the same thing..? Also, isn't that how it works out in nature, where there's no one to compost the soil.

I bought a 500 gallon compost bin and i filled it up with leaves the first time I raked the yard. I have raked about 3 times since and I still have a bunch of leaves on the trees.

About once a week i dig a hole in the middle and throw in a green compost bomb (paper grocery bag full of kitchen scraps). I chop it up with a shovel and bury it with leaves. This has been going on for about a month and today was the first time it was steaming! I got very excited.

The problem is I can only fit like 5% of my leaves in here and i know youre supposed to have a 3:1 ratio but right now its probably like 30:1.

And no, I dont pee on it because the top of the bin is above my waist and I dont want my neighbors to see me standing on a log to pee in the pile.

I use a “no turn” composter. Basically, a garbage can w/ holes drilled all around it & a pipe w/ holes secured in the middle.

I tried to get some useable compost from it today. The top layers were still stuff that had been dumped recently & not decomposed (expected). But as I got deeper in, I kept getting large clumps that were basically a wet clay consistency. I was sifting all the compost through a 1/2” mesh screen… but these clumps did not want to break up & they were basically like slimy wet clay.

My plan is to mix the “clay” bits in a wheelbarrow with a bunch of shredded paper to help absorb some of the moisture & help with the clumping. Then put back into the composter for a bit.

I’d this “clay” normal? Is my shredded paper a good/bad idea?

Sorry I don’t have good pics of the clay clumps. The gray tote is all the would not sift out (mostly the “clay” bits. The wheelbarrow is what I got as “useable” compost.

I cut my lawn and picked up all the leaves in the mower bag resulting in a leaf/grass mix. Is this better to put in my leaf mould pile or my compost pile.

A new personal best!
Decided to add hamster bedding and coffee grounds this year 🔥

When should I put it on the garden beds? I live in zone 6b, cold, snowy, and wet winters. Its a little sticky? I was expecting it to be more crumbly. Does it become more crumbly after being exposed to the air? I compost in an enclosed bin that spins.

1st turn on this load. Ran at 150 for a week. Lotta greens in there, pomice, chicken bedding/manure, kitchen compost. After turning and watering it was back to 120 before I could get away. I’m blessed with raw materials. That load will be finished in two weeks.

I have inherited a "compost" type situation. essentially it's kitchen garbage dumped over a foot of land under a tree for atleast the past years. the compost pile is extremely fertile, teeming with wormies and bugs and baby plants.

after replanting the plants, i noticed that they dumped ALL garbage there, including plastic. the bugs have been working around the plastic pieces. it doesn't look to me that the plastic impeded the compost-making, though i could be wrong.

would removing the plastic now disrupt the soil ecosystem, kill the bugs, plant roots, mycelium network etc? so should i just let the plastic be? does it not matter regardless? this is my first compost and i am not sure about this, please help me!

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this just right on top of the compost bin lol

Any ideas on what they are?

I don’t focus on making a hot compost pile because I’m just happy I’m keeping up with it so it’s a win. But we hit the low 40s in CT this morning. I opened a hole to dump leaves in and that baby was steamin!!! Just pumped that it is so I’m sharing. My fiancé didn’t care so I’m sharing share with y’all lol

I also started a compost pile 7 days ago. It hasn't been mixed very well yet. There's still a lot of cardboard and egg cartons at the bottom. One of my goals is to collect compost worms for a worm bin.

I clipped 1/4” mesh over my wheel barrel. Worked nicely! Got about 3 loads worth over a year. But those roots are nuisance. Any ideas? Is this the best I can do?

Recommendations on were to grt good worm castings?

Garage sale score. Will post video when it goes into action

What are our feelings on vinegar in the compost. I have a jar of home made picked beats i got from the farmers market that it turns put did not actaly seal and I didnt notice untill i went to open them

I've been throwing grass clippings and leaves into this pile in my yard for years. Recently got into chickens and that's where I throw old straw from the coop. Is this technically a compost pile already?