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RE: "Back to Eden" Gardening: Adventures in Composting - Hot & Cold!
Have you ever tried taking some of your cold compost and adding it to your hot compost bin? This may jump start the process for you. I don't dry out my greens before adding them to the top of the compost pile. The decomposition rate is fast with green leafy materials and the heat will rise more quickly, but I see your point too. Thanks for the info!
With only two batches "under our belts," we have a long way to go in learning how best to do this @bdmillergallery. We did take some material from the cold compost to add to our YIMBY on the 2nd batch. Didn't really help much, as far as we could tell. We also added green grass clippings on this 2nd batch, but we still were unable to get the temperature up into the "hot" zone ...
I think we have a lot to learn about the ratio of brown to green and how green we should leave the plants. Doesn't seem as straightforward as we were led to believe initially. But ... Maybe we are just dummies ... 😉
What I am sure of is we're having a lot of fun! 👍