That's it, leaves work. The woody material helps with building humic acid and it will help chelate micronutrients and keep them from being locked up or leached. Leaf compost will also be more fungal dominate while your manure compost will be bacteria. Here is a look at my leaf compost from last Nov, it was 1yr old at the time.I don’t have any woody material. I do have 2 year old pile of leaves composted Sitting in back yard
That's it, leaves work. The woody material helps with building humic acid and it will help chelate micronutrients and keep them from being locked up or leached. Leaf compost will also be more fungal dominate while your manure compost will be bacteria. Here is a look at my leaf compost from last Nov, it was 1yr old at the time.
View attachment 4337794
View attachment 4337795
My neighbor had a bunch of plastic pallets, so I traded him some weed for a few. I'm adding red wheat bran bokashi to my worm bin here. My worm bin is a mix of rabbit bedding, oak leaves, and grass clippings. I added some rock dust since then, it's in the silver bowl.That stuff looks awesome, super active. I’ve got a few 4’ x 4’ filled with leaves from last fall, they’ve definitely started to breakdown a bit as the cages have shrunk up almost in half but I don’t see the good fungal life like yours stang. How are you composting yours ? Did you add anything to the piles ?