In article , Amber Ormerod
writes


This is the problem. I don't have the physical strength to turn compost.

You don't need to.

So
I have a wormery for food waste but sometimes I have too much for that or
lots of one thing like orange skins. I was thinking more of a dump it and it
will be compost kinda way of doing it. The info on composting like that is
very vague.

It works. My heaps are about 1m x 1m x 1m. I add stuff to the top as it
comes - stuff being veg waste, paper and carboard, grass mowings, weeds
and anything else which seems rottable (like old cotton or woollen
material). The only mixing I do is to try not to leave grass mowings
more than 4 inches deep - if its deeper than that, at the earliest
opportunity I bury something else in amongst them.

When I've finally used all the compost in one of the other heaps, I take
the unrotted stuff from the top of the newest heap and put it in the
base of the empty heap so as to start a new heap.

It's probably slower this way, but the result is incredibly good
compared with what went on to the heap, and improves the soil a lot if
used as a mulch about 6 inches deep.



--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm