Also when you pile that up as compost take an old butter tub, bucket, milk jug with the top 1/4 cut off etc and save vegetative table scraps, coffee grinds (and filter), egg shells, and such and bury them in it as your container fills. My wife hates that at the back door I have a 1/2 gallon ice cream bucket that gets egg shells, peels, coffee filters/grinds, etc dumped into it daily (pretty much anything that can decompose that isn't meat/fat goes in it. She hates it but doesn't complain when we plant flowers and the things grow double the height of what they are supposed to, I also add chicken manure, straw, sawdust, horse manure, leaves, paper, cardboard, wood chips (I have a few tree trimming contractors supply me 6 or 7 loads a year), sheet rock etc, etc etc.
My 4 year old son and 2 year old daughter have fights over who gets to dump the bucket into the pile. My solution was to get two buckets. They each also pick up worms by the dozens when we dig in it.
