Sachis,
See the light thingie I have under my name?
And it's going in 20 different directions?????
That's my life, 20 different directions at one time...
Anyhow, I do know that the bigger problem is
too much green... when you have too much green stuff in your compost, it turns to a MUSH.....
wet and a slurry mess...
The ratio of brown to green is 3/4 to 1/4....
You want more brown than green... the brown is what turns to dirt like stuff, the green is what gets it moving or rendering down...
Remember with the straw and hay to wait one full season or have it already been sitting out one full season when you get it...
That Ringer is more for a big pile of whole leaves or unchopped items.. and puts some "gas to the flames" for a lack of a better term...
I use it, cause my piles are filllllllllllllllled
high, I pack 'em, in the fall, and most times they are wet.... and I need to turn them and incorporate the Ringer stuff as I turn the leaves.
NOT every time do I use it...
I have to admit, I use it more on the Twin Compost Tumblers than my open ones...because the open one's have "critters" to come at the pile from the bottom up and they really help get it going... The roundie bins are in the air and no dirt buggies or anything to get them going...
In the fall, my problem was too much browns. Now I've got so much fresh fruit and veggie stuff I'm really at a loss.
Nope, shouldn't be a problem...
go to your pile, and even if you have to pull some out.... put it in a wheelbarrow or on top of a tarp...at about 1/2 way down, stop...
Throw in several loads of green, then top with brown, and so on... When I am done, I also open a couple cans of old beer and or wine coolers or pepsi, and coat or cover the top of the pile and it'll soak in..... leave it for a couple of days or a week or so....
Now, I know my piles, (***oh gosh, that almost sounded terrible..
***) but I leave them for a bit and then come back and turn them, I let them get cookin' up first though and then turn them... you need to get them workin' before you disturb them...
IF you can't pull some of it out, just get your pitch fork out, you do have a pitch fork don't you? I have to have something to turn mine with.
Okay, next step is to look at the top of your bin, and eyeball it up into 4 sections, straight down..like you had 4 seperate composts going in the one bin... take your fork and go to one section, take a load with the fork, and throw it on top of section 2, as much as you can, so you have a hole in one part of it straight down...
Then the pile next to it (*NOT the pile you just put the stuff on top of.*)
Take the stuff off the top, one fork full at a time, down into the bottom of that hole... and when you're done, take another section from the top and do the same again, and so on, and fill every other fork full of fresh kitchen stuff in between the old stuff from last year......
Until you're left with the last hole and the original pile you loaded on top, and throw that into the bottom of that pile...
Did that make any
sense
Weezie