USDA Zone 7
"Jim Voege" wrote in message
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"John Wheeler" wrote in message
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I suspect it's anaerobic, because of lack of oxygen. How does it smell
when you turn it? Frequent turning helps bring in oxygen and mixing up
the ingredients. Layering by itself does little. Adding fertilizer that
you pay for is mostly wasting money.

While generally true that is not always the case. If circumstances are
such that you have too high a proportion of carbon (brown) to nitrogen
(green) a bit of relatively inexpensive spring lawn fertilizer can redress
the balance.

Jim
Or you could get lots of free coffee grounds from a local business that
makes lots of coffee, e.g., Starbucks. I get about 15 pounds a day of
coffee grounds. Then in the fall I collect bags of leaves in the
neighborhood, grind them up, and add them to compost piles the next year.
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John Henry Wheeler
Washington, DC