jewels wrote:
[...]
My compost 'bin' is made up of wooden pallets and I put an old
carpet
over the top but the last time I looked, everything looked very dry
in there, I added some water but reading your post made me
wonder....would I be better off lifting off the old carpet and just
leaving it to the elements?

Let it get thoroughly rained on, or add water yoursaelf, then put the
carpet back to keep it in. The pallets will allow a lot of
evaporation.

--
Mike.