Rick McGreal wrote:

Does anyone have a URL for a website that has info on home composting?

I have been composting my own stuff since I mved into my new house last
July

There was a LOT of biomass to be dumped and since then there has been all
sorts a=of kitchen scraps in there aswell....But it simply isn;t breaking
down....I would have thought that by now I woudl have something I could use
on the garden....But none of it is...

What is the "Biomass"?

I really think that it hasn't worked right because I have done something
wrong...
I didn't have any heat in it over the winter either....

I would suggest that you make sure that it is kept damp and doesn't dry
out.
Urine makes an excellent activator.



Can anyone help me?

(Also....Can I put ANYTHING in a comport heap/bin?

Don't put human faeces in unless you are really really certain of
getting a high temperature.
Don't put in preserved wood. It could be full of arsenic. Anything that
was once alive and isn't contaminated in someway with toxins or
potential pathogens.


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