"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 May 2014 07:10:32 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>>On 5/27/2014 12:04 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Ace!! So, don't put your coffee grounds et al into the ground
>>> immediately, find a bottomless bin or section off a piece of your garden
>>> and create a heap. Throw all your peelings, coffee grounds etc onto it
>>> and eventually (not next week) you will have lovely compost to feed your
>>> plants)
>>>
>>> I prefer bins because it keeps it out of sight, I don't have to keep
>>> turning it and there is no smell.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I will keep this in mind for when I get a garden. I'll have to ask my
>>step-mom about this. My dad told me that she had a compost pile. He said
>>it stinks.
>
> If it stinks it's not producing compost so much as it's fermenting.
> The aroma of a properly functioning composter is the same as the deep
> woods aroma of a virgin forest.

My dad's compost pile smelled like cow pies. Our little dog would always
get in it and then I would have to bathe her. I don't think he did what he
was supposed to like turning it over. He just dumped stuff in there.
Mostly grass clippings.