What does your compost bin/heap say about you?

[GoodOldEmmaNess]

... when you dig into its innards, I mean.

Mine says: "You eat nothing but avocados morning, noon and night."

I swear I actually eat a normal amount of avocados, but my compost bin seems to be roughly 30% avocado stones, several of them sprouting..

Perhaps someone in the village sneaks in and dumps their stones in my bin. That's an Archers storyline that hasn't been done yet, as far as I know.

That we have way too many small animals, the browns is 99% animal bedding.

That we drink an absolute fuckton of coffee.

We don’t, but we’ve been having lots of work done to our house and all the builders drink coffee, all day.

Mine have a bit of animal bedding too -- and one bin had actual animals (mice) the other day, which I guess says "You don't stir me up often enough."

The first poor mouse I spotted was leaping up and down like a frog in response to my forking of the bin. I think an instinctive attempt to look scary. Then it bolted to the bottom of the bin and ran out, followed by four or five of its mates.

My terrier was frantic for hours.

That we cook from scratch a lot of the time, loads of potato and veg peelings.
That we drink loose leaf tea.
That our compost bin is too big for just the two of us, really. It used to fill up a lot faster when we were all at home.
That DH is good at churning the compost and sometimes uses Garotta.

It says 'Who the heck put these flipping grass cuttings in here? Don't they know that's a no-no?' Glares at DP However it's mainly vegetable trimmings, which appear to be mainly consumed by snails in there so not sure just how much compost is ever generated! 😅

Feeding snails is good I guess, though not as pretty as feeding birds.
Stonking number of worms in the bin I turned out today. That is good, I guess, from a composting point of view. Was pretty rubbish compost though, this time. I think I was putting too much thick and fibrous garden waste in it.

I think there's a rat living in mine at the moment. Something has turned the top layers over into quite fine mulchy stuff. I can't think what else would be able to do that. I'm blaming the weather because my garden is a swamp after 6 months of near constant rain, meaning I haven't been pottering around very much. Even my dogs have decided the garden is too wet and barely spend any time out there. FWIW, I like to break up vegetal matter quite small, and ripped up egg cartons soaked in a bucket of pee (😳) break down really quickly.

Mine says I am a champion of slow worm conservation.

Ants turn the top layer into lovely mulchy compost. They are just as good as worms IMHO.

Nothing wrong with grass clippings in a compost bin. it heats it up quicker.

What my compost bin tells me is I don't turn it enough. Oh well.

Mine says fgs will you take the little window things out of the envelopes before you shred them woman?

Mine tells me I haven’t done enough gardening recently- it’s all cardboard, veg peelings,avocado stones, eggshells and coffee grounds at the moment.

It used to tell me that my DC are supremely bad at removing knives from empty pizza boxes.

Mine says we drink a lot of tea, have too much cardboard and nobody liked my home made sauerkraut 😭. Possibly also says I'll eventually get caught taking sneaky slices out of the lawn to bring the beds forward.