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Old 03-12-2013, 06:12 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Compost heap too wet - what to do?

In article , Bob Hobden
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"Chris" wrote

Compost heap is a metre square and 1.2 metres high.
Too wet.
Should I repeatedly turn it?
Or what?

Just push your fork in the sides and loosen it a bit and then cover to
keep off any more rain (not wet here?). Is it on concrete or something
impervious to get so wet? If so try to raise it up to allow drainage.
The best and fastest compost heap we ever had was one surrounded and
covered with builders polystyrene sheets so the warmth was kept in,
material was sometimes reduced to ash in the middle it got so hot if I
forgot to water it but it killed any weed seeds. Two loads of compost a
year out of that one.


Thanks to all.
It's a Huker bin.
Standing on concrete.
Perhaps an excess of HLA added!
--
Chris