If you never see steam rising from your compost, add green matter.
We’re lucky to have a backyard full of deciduous trees that provide us with almost more than our two compost bins can hold in the fall. Of course, as we feast on carbon rich materials, we experience a famine of green matter to speed decomposition. I miss the bags of spent garden plants and grass clippings that ramp up the heat in the compost pile. It’s a good thing that this cold weather has stimulated my coffee-drinking activity; the grounds are the only source of green matter for the bin on some days.
