Worms don't like acid fruit and peel so don't add to your heap, I don't turn my heap very often if you have got the right mix there is no need to, each year I have loads of free compost but never use it for seedlings.
My compost has become wet and smelly rather than dry and crumbly. I've been putting all fruit and veg peelings into it as well as grass cuttings. Do I need to include alot more newspaper and cardboard?
You need to put some woody fibre into your compost This can be scrunched up dampened newspaper, egg cartons, loo rolls, shredded bark.. pretty much anything that has some fibre. Grass clippings are fine for a composter, but too much and the whole thing gets slimy, which looks to be your problem. Adding a layer of damp newspapers should sort it out.
I have just moved and have a very small garden but LOTS of leaves are falling from trees behind the back fence I rake them from the lawn should I also remove them from the flower beds which is mainly shrubs with a few newly planted perannials and bulbs
By regularly turning my compost heep and mixing in some soil and paper shreddings I've found the compost heap rots down very quickly. I do this by having a long trench and only filling one end of it then I transfer the contents to the other end of the trench.
During the Spring, Summer and Autumn I do this fortnightly.Also during dryer weather I water the heap and cover with old compost bags to keep the moisture in the heap.
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This can be scrunched up dampened newspaper, egg cartons, loo rolls, shredded bark.. pretty much anything that has some fibre.
Grass clippings are fine for a composter, but too much and the whole thing gets slimy, which looks to be your problem. Adding a layer of damp newspapers should sort it out.
During the Spring, Summer and Autumn I do this fortnightly.Also during dryer weather I water the heap and cover with old compost bags to keep the moisture in the heap.