"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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Key ingredients I think are lots of air and lots of heat so the bigger the
pile the quicker it rots. Plastic bins with no holes in them keep both the
air and the worms out which is bad n'kay. Just cobble something together
out of scraps of wood on the bare soil so the wormies can get in.
Supposedly if you get it right you can have compost in under 2 months. If
you get it wrong you just end up with smelly mulch. No air, no heat and no
wormies = smelly mulch. I think that about sums up where you've got to.



Been Googling everywhere on this ... while you can use an open heap with
loads of air .... this is not effective .. as it simply will not generate
enough heat ... except perhaps in middle.
The key thing initially is heat ... once it's past first rotting phase, it
can be turned out into a pile and left to mature into compost, but initial
stage needs loads of heat ... and anaerobic.

Still does not explain why mine is so poor though.