Northeast Gardening: FINALLY!, 1 by noknok

noknok wrote:
We've been building this compost bin in fits and starts since June, actually, it was levelled by an excavator in April. Meanwhile we've been carting stuff over and collecting in many other places.
Today we assembled it all and layered it into all the bins according to state of decay, using a huge pile of grass clippings as the main ingredient, between kitchen scraps, ashes, leaves, wood chips and all the frostbitten tomatoes.
We'd also saved all the food scraps and coffee grounds (lots!) from my small factory kitchen, so we had several garbage cans of lovely crud for our "pastries".

The bins are full, but we only used half the grass clippings, none of the weed pile and only a small part of the leaf piles that have almost turned to soil already, under plastic.
I expect this will settle and sink down so we can fit more in during the winter. We're placing bets on which bins will produce the best quality stuff. Everyone has a different favorite.
What a fun and satisfying day!