Northeast Gardening: About perennial fertilizer, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
There's something wrong.

Composting isn't just throwing in things and expecting miracle results. It's a science. It's layers of green (as in cut grass), brown (as in leaves from fall), along with household items such as coffee grounds, tea bags, banana skins, grapefruit/lemon/lime rinds, apple cores, carrot and potato scrapings, a little soil (not much), some fireplace ashes (but not a lot), wood shavings, etc.

We've never had a bin, such as you have, but my neighbor does have one and she follows the brown/green/household rule and hers does not smell.

Another neighbor throws in entire plants, seldom puts in anything from the house, never chips anything and this is how hers looks. She doesn't use it and her husband always says he has no idea why they have it.