A good high nitrogen commercial fertilizer will probably start it cooking. Either that or some animal manure mixed in. Your compost heap sounds like what my mom used to have, toss it on the pile and it eventually rots into something useful. Compost makes something useful quicker and without the bugs. George Ron Hay wrote: > > Hi, George, > > It is not smelly at all. It merely attracts insects which lay their eggs > in it. It is, in truth, more vermicultured than composted, since we > seriously lack anything brown to put into it, as just about everything > at our house is ever green, and I do not mean conifers. Any suggestions? > > Ron