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Kay Easton wrote:
In article , Katharine
Mill writes

Advice much appreciated. I'll break them up and poke them in, I think,
as I only have the one bin. I've also noticed quite a lot of ants and
woodlice crawling around in it. Is that OK too?

Too dry
You often get woodlice in the dry bits around the edges, but you
shouldn't get them in too much of it.
Try watering it, with water, water from cooking veg, tea, or 'recycled
beer' if you want a good accelerator.

Yup. But don't worry, anyway. I often find that there is a sheet
of woodlice in my heap when turning it over. That indicates that
it was too dry at that level in the heap, so the solution is just
to wet it and let it rot down some more.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.