Third compost post pile is off to a great start. Recipe was equal parts by volume: grass clippings, weeds, straw, wood shavings and old failed compost, plus 2 handfuls of cottonseed meal per five 5-gallon buckets.

Piles 1 and 2 were both made from only grass clippings and old failed compost. Not enough nitrogen, and not enough pore spaces for oxygen to get into the pile.