Made a new pile- Finally!
I finally got around to doing some guerilla gardening in the neighborhood to empty out my finished compost- I had nearly a cubic yard of the stuff left over! The Geobin compost bin is not the prettiest looking thing you can buy, but it gets the job done every time with ease- I've had mine going for over 8 years now :) To start this pile, all I did was add two full garbage bags of leaves, followed by a week's worth of food scraps and some extra stuff that went bad in the fridge. I soaked down the pile, then added another couple inches' worth of leaves on top and got that wet, too. A week later, and this thing is cooking at a temperature of 142 degrees! It's…