Pacific Northwest Gardening: Who loves their composter?, 0 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
I have been gone a couple of days so late on responding. First of all all compost is attractive to pests. Pests are what break it down. Now we don't have any raccoons or rats because of cats and dogs. But ANY compost pile will have them. I have never had any problem with compost attracting anything. I never use anything with meat grease or cooked foods in the pile. There is never a problem with too much rain. I irrigate mine twice weekly in the summer. Lastly I turn my piles about every 1 to 2 months. Usually only twice on any pile. My entire garden is rich with compost because everything that I take from it in the fall becomes compost in the early summer. I don't have disease but the occasional white fly and aphid. My soil when I started 12 yrs ago had no worms now you could fish all day with one shovelfull. I just warn those who get the small compost holders because you will have 100 times more material than that one could hold. I usually chip and shred all of what I put in the compost piles and this is what is waiting 6 months later. (including 3 months of frozen winter)