I just made the worst compost I have made in years!

I just made the worst compost I have made in years!

I was putting a finished compost pile out on the garden recently, but as I was forking it into the barrow, I realised, with disappointment, it was the worst compost I had made in quite a few years! The ‘finished’ compost was dry, woody and full of fine root filaments, not the rich, moist, greasy, ‘humic’ goodness I am used to producing. So, what went wrong? It didn’t take too much digging to work out at least four thing that had led to this bein…