re: Tips for Compost Beginner

OP you inspired me to build a respectable bin instead of the leaf piles I had all over the yard. I screwed four wood pallets together in a shady spot, raked up all my rotten piles, pulled up a bunch of weeds and clover, shredded some cardboard boxes and watered the whole thing down

I also tossed in a bag of composted manure I had. I picked up tons of earthworms from my piles of rotted leaves and I had an old trampoline on the ground near my barn that was covered in a few inches of rotten leaves so I have about half the bin filled up with a good start. Wet the bin down every few inches or so

so there you go...compost bin 101