Backyard composter opens bin to gray sludge and 'dumpster' smell, sparking debate over the fix

Backyard composter opens bin to gray sludge and 'dumpster' smell, sparking debate over the fix

After a gardener found a bad smell and gray material in their compost bin at the end of winter, they went to Reddit to ponder what went wrong. What's happening? Instead of yielding a simple fix, the post on r/composting sparked a mini debate over the culprit. After trying to correct the issue by mixing in extra browns, the Redditor said they were worried they had only made things worse.  Photo Credit: Reddit The gardener, who wrote that the bin…