Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
I don't know what to do with my compost. I never get around to turning it, so it's not really where it should be. I just dug the entire thing out yesterday and it's sitting in a huge pile in my garden bed. I cleaned out my chicken coop for the last time so I need to mix in all that dry stuff. My compost is mostly chicken poop, pine shavings, grass, and the parts of vegetables that we didn't eat all last year.
I had this issue. I added about 10% soil (introduces some native biologicals) and started soaking the pile at least once a week. We are just so dry here that the pile wont stay moist enough to break down, and yours sounds like too much brown matter, again, pretty normal for around here. Gotta add moisture. Turning helps, but water is more importanter.