How to make garden compost to gladden the hearts of a worm 1

How to make garden compost to gladden the hearts of a worm 1: "Look at making compost in a different way. Your compost heap is a large bacterial and fungal culture. What you should aim to do is keep these microbes as happy and plentiful as possible. It is bacteria and fungi more than anything that break the plant material on your compost heap down.

If you've ever made yogurt, then the principles are the same,

good starting material + correct bacteria + correct conditions = pleasant end product

What you need to do to obtain nice, dark brown, crumbly compost is to keep happy a varied community of bacteria and fungi. Horrible slimy, smelly stuff that takes forever to break down is a result of too much of one or a few kinds of decomposer or having poor conditions for them to grow in."