Compost Recipe - Good smelling compost

Although I am composting all the time, it is interesting that every pile is unique and has its own flavor. This summer, for example, I decided to go without adding as much straw as I normally do. Each week I would get grass and other primarily green ingredients with coffee hulls added as the primary carbon. I wanted to test if I could keep this pile in somewhat control from stinking up the neighborhood. While I never added water and turned just enough to keep it hot, it still ended up being a sludge of goo that my worms (that do the final composting for me) didn't seem to appreciate as much.

This time I trimmed back the lavender that was dead, trimmed the pineapple guava and other browns. This is a little bulky and will allow air into the pile. As always I got a load of grass from the neighborhood gardener. This time it had more dead grass and leaves in it.

Now it's second week the compost pile is starting to cook. I may get some sheep bedding straw to keep it from overheating.

Ever wonder what a good recipe for compost is. Imagine smelling lavender cooking in your back yard. Now that is good compost.