"Chris" is fine. It's what I'm known by (most of the time!). On 
email it's "christopher" so people can determine my gender.
LK>  Found a book just the other day at a library book sale called "Let It
LK>  Rot".  it said just about what you did  about balance ..but they said 
ry
LK>  and do it in 6 inch layers of whatever ... and Now matter how you do it
LK>  ..or how bad or well ..it all comes out compost in the end at sometime 

You got it. In fact, you could probably get away with alternating
six-inch layers of books and librarians (grin!).
Like many natural machines, the closer we can get to nature's
balance, the better. I suppose one guide might be the depth of
the topsoil layer (one foot in many places) and the amount of
vegetable debris that rains down on it (not an awful lot, when
all is said an done). If we then average out the dead-squirrel
load across an acreage, we find that there is an awful lot of
soil taking care of a little amount of rottable waste.
I think most of my composting failures have been trying to get
too little soil to rot down too much stuff. And demanding that it
happen too quickly.
The big advantage, to me, of multiple bins is that the later bins
in the series let me spend my fussing-time on them, leaving the
earlier bins time to do their work un-interrupted.
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
 * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Don't Brake!
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