George.com writes

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All I need to do now is add plenty of organic material and cuttings to
start
the ball rolling on the manure production front for next years planting.

Anyone any tips, apart from not adding grass cuttings, as to the best
layering or whatever in a 1m cube old coal bunker?

as others say add grass clippings (as much as you want) in ration to brown
material (leaves, mulched prunings, paper, cardboard, straw etc). Grass is
great and brings in nitrogen.

One tip, no rose cuttings unless they are well mulched. The *******s last a
long time and get revenge when you dig the compost out. Either chop them
superfine or as I do now dry them and use as kindling.

Nothing with spines is a good idea. Brambles, cacti are equally nasty a
year later.

Pruning can go in, if you don't overdo it, if you chop into 3 inch
lengths - they won't be completely rotted when you use the compost, but
that doesn't matter. The chopping is for convenience when you load your
barrow - you can't easily get spades full of compost if you have half
buried two foot long branches in there.

Wine corks don't rot in any reasonable timescale (otherwise we wouldn't
use them to cork wine bottles), nor do avocado stones, nor do those
irritating transparent windows from envelopes, or parcel tape from the
otherwise highly rottable cardboard boxes. I keep a bin bag next to the
heap to discard all the things that have found their way in there and
haven't rotted (why on earth did one of my children imagine a plastic
toothpaste tube would compost?)

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Kay