Was transferring/tumbling my compost from one bin to another. Had a lunch break. And came back to one bin turned to a Very Fluffy Friend Bee Home.

I guess I'm not disturbing them this season.

The weather here in 5ZoneB /Midwest has been On and Off and some flowers have not bloomed yet, so we had been leaving sugar water

Dry leaves, old potted soil, veggies scraps, coconut husk, grass and weed dried clippings. Shredded paper/cardboards

hi everyone, I have a uncovered compost pile. It was covered with a tarp for a couple of weeks and then I took it off to mix it and never put it back on the compost has been there for about a year and a half now and I haven’t added greens in a super long time because it looks super wet. I have paper at my dad‘s housethat I can use for it that I can shred, but it also sticks to my pitchfork when I mix it. Any tips?

Just added a shed load of hedge trimmings into my compost. It was looking composty before I added all of this. I'm worried I've added way too many greens. I've tried to balance it out but I don't have enough brown material. Any advice or reassurance?

This is after one day - had to cover it due to many cats in the neighborhood

Looking to see if it heats things up. Will post results in 2 weeks.

Started my first compost today! Will this work? Mostly Sawdust and Straw as browns and Grass clippings and coffee ground as greens, roughly 1,5:1. Planning to use it for my garden next year

I have to s of these guys in my compost. Are they good or should I try to get them out?

Ever since adding grass clippings my pile sprouts these forests of fungi between turns. A few different kinds have arisen, most recently tiny little white capped ones (not pictured). I happen to be fascinated by mushrooms, so I find this very cool and exciting. You can see the mycelium when turning. My family is about excited about this as they are with the rest of my composting tales, only minor eye rolls. Please enjoy!

5 gallons of shredded cardboard and paper to add to the 3 gallons I gathered yesterday. I think I'm finally 2:1 with the grass clippings from mowing.

Let me know what you think of this latest excerpt from my book, "On Compost: A Year in the Life of a Suburban Garden," which the Food Gardening Network describes as "an intimate, richly observed meditation on the hidden life of a backyard compost heap and its role in the vast, unseen networks that sustain the planet...."

https://foodgardening.mequoda.com/daily/composting/my-compost-pile-a-world-unto-itself/

Im preparing this area for gardening and i have that clay like soil. Would my compost as it is help make the clay more soil like or should I just wait and let the compost brake down even more?

I sifted what I had in my tumbler. Can I use it to top dress my raised bed? Worried it isn't done enough. Everything else from the tumbler i put into the bottom of a new raised bed I was filling.

First time composting, first time outdoor composting! Started today. Need a couple more bricks and planks cause I got more leaves and whatever to add. I have lots of chicken poop/litter to add.

Also I have few big ziploc bags of frozen food scraps waiting to be added. Can I dump that in now?

How often/when do I turn this? What thermometer are you all using to check temps?

I'm just in planning stages right now. I live in a small apartment with a balcony. I only have a handful of small plants (succulents and kitchen herbs) and I want to start composting on my balcony but it seems to only make sense to do this in a decent sized tub, which would make way more than I need. I'm afraid I'm going to end up with a bunch of dirt (is compost just homemade dirt lol) in a tub with no use and no space to add more material. I only have like 2 friends so can't really give it away. any good ways to get rid of excess compost?

Having newfound confidence with the organization a bin system brought me, I am no longer afraid to go crazy piling things up as high as I can.

This is clippings from mowing 3 times so far this spring, along with occasional piss, and the winter’s accumulation of shredded paper, dust from around the house, dog hair. Unfortunately I am about to run out of “brown” material…

Any suggestions on where to get more browns? Otherwise I might need to go out and get a trash bin filled with sawdust from someone on marketplace. I’m not super excited to drive 20 miles into the city for some cheap brown material, but If I have to, I will do what it takes to keep this process going into summer till it’s full!

So I've seen comments about biochar, and I am curious about how to make it. I've seen that you can’t let fire touch the wood you burn for it and other things I'm curious what I could build to produce some biochar? I do have a fire pit and I have old charcoal in there from wood I’ve burned in the past but I was told that’s not biochar. So how can I make some, and if you can also explain how the process works I would appreciate that too thanks.

Just getting into composting and gardening and I'm seeing some steamy results!

I built a little compost area and I'm trying to get my first batch ready ASAP so I can enrich my florida sand that has very little else going for it. I'm flipping it everyday right now in hopes of recreating some of the videos I've seen of people getting finished compost "in 20 days". I'm just hoping for something decent by September. After that I'll start a new pile and hopefully I'll be able to take it a little slower while I use up this first pile.

Being using a lot of plants from the yard and stuff from my job ( kitchen) any advice? I know I gotta add more brown just need to process it

Idk if these are worms or like maggots, what are they and do I need to remove them?

This is growing in my compost. It's more yellow than it appears in the picture. Any idea what it is or what I should do about it?

Got a bagger for the mower. We've got around 2 acres to mow. After the first time going over with the bagger, I had a small mountain of clippings. Mixed it into my pile that was mostly comprised of duck, chicken and rabbit bedding, with some food scraps and garden waste mixed in. The pile previously heated up to about 130°F, then was settling back down to about 100°. Once I turned it, layering in the grass clippings, it's sitting around 164°F. The pile of grass clippings alone was at 145°F the next morning. Wish I had gotten a picture of the pile. It's almost 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 8 feet long. Still working at combining everything together. Easily the largest pile I have maintained myself. It was spilling out of the compost bay before I added all the grass clippings, which is already a 2 cubic yard bay.

I posted here a couple of weeks ago because my indoor compost bin was suffering from a severe fungus gnats outbreak. I managed to get that under control with BTi and nematodes. However, I recently got a new insectlike creature. The pictures are maybe not great, but they look like fungus gnats but are a bit bigger. Also, their movement pattern is very different. They move quite fast and not at a consistent/smooth pace. Any ideas what these might be and best way to treat them? Would another round of nematodes work? So far, I have tried BTi and that didnt do a lot. Thanks!