*shudders to think anyone knows how Monsanto feels!*
I am about ready to harvest my first compost here in this particular location. I'm just waiting for that "feels like the time" moment.
I haven't wanted to even talk about compost lately because I am disturbed at the lack of worms here! It used to be I could build a compost and before I knew it there were zillions of worms.
Not this time.
I know, this is really off topic. But not totally, because I do know that worms can't live in a pile that is too hot, and mine has gotten pretty hot -- for whatever reason I have attended to it much more frequently than in past situations. Maybe because my housemate is much tidier a person than I tend to be so I don't let stuff pile up in containers for a week before hauling them out to the compost!
anyway
I think I already said, I used to turn, and I don't now. I lift and sort of stir, and it's a partial turning that happens.
I also would prefer to just put stuff around here and there, and not bother with an actual composting setup. However, can't do that here. One thing I have observed when I did that was the nitrogen levels in the soil, varied widely according to where I had buried what. Composting does give a more even result. That's not always important but sometimes it is.
For me, when I had buried stuff in that mound of rubble, out of laziness mainly, and then saw the wintersown cosmos I planted there grow thick as saplings, I figured I might be on to something.
