Pacific Northwest Gardening: Finally got to the compost pile! Wow!, 1 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
I love composting and love to turn it. I have 3 piles (already chipped and shredded) pile one is all of the spring or fall cleanup. I add a ton of manure to each one, sometimes I use the pelleted material, and they cook in the 3 months (summer), turning every 1 to 2 months and 7 months (fall), turning only once into a delight that give from my garden about 4 to 6 yards each seasonal pile. I have no patience to wait for nature to work it. I love the forking from one area to the next and each turn heats it up majorly. I place a sealed temp sender to my chair side in my sun room that lets me see daily how the pile is working, it is perforated to give me relative humidity also. My fall pile is only 56F but that is after about 3 months of below freezing temps. (-5F on Oct 5th)