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If your compost starts to smell, it's "out of balance." (Don't let that phrase scare you.) Compost needs carbon and nitrogen "stuff" to do its composting thing. Nitrogen = green stuff: green chlorophyll things like grass clippings and green leaves, and manure. Manure is not green in color...

@Chickies11, I would NOT (REALLY NOT) recommend that kind of composter. It looks like a great idea, looks neat and clean and compact. Once I got mine even 1/4 full, it was too heavy to turn. Now it is stuck with the opening in about the position you see in your picture. I can't get anything out...

Sorry, clicked on post reply before I was done. Can you start a compost pile somewhere? Personally, I can't imagine NOT having a compost pile, because it's where I get rid of any vegetative waste from the kitchen, pulled weeds from the garden, coffee grounds, tea bags, grass clippings, raked up...

You can use both. You can buy compost. Compost has a lot more to offer than just giving nutrients to the soil, like fertilizer does, though. It can help retain moisture and also help keep the soil cool when the weather gets hot in the summer. If your soil has what it needs, there usually isn't...

:goodpost: very good advice!

To save space, I have planted pole beans and also peas so that they can climb my fence. Peas can be planted early, like lettuce. Beans need the soil to be warm before they can germinate. If you don't have a lot of space, think about making use of the vertical dimension too. Stuff that climbs...

Go online to various seed companies and read descriptions of different types. There are hundreds of varieties. I really like Baker Creek seeds, and here's their website: https://www.rareseeds.com/ If I didn't fence in my garden, I would have nothing. Deer, rabbits, woodchucks all eat my...

Compost is rotted vegetable matter, sometimes mixed with animal manure. Think of what is going on under trees in the forest. The leaves fall, break down, become soil, feed the trees and other plants. Compost is a HUGE subject all by itself. Fertilizer is stuff to supply nutrients to feed...