Hi - new to composting - here's my story and question...
In July I nailed together 4 pallets, put them in the corner of my yard and started throwing kitchen waste and lawn clippings into it. Then it started to fill up faster than I expected - we have a new build home and therefore no trees so no dead matter... but a ton of unwanted weeds which got pulled and piled in there. Now it is overflowing and mainly only green matter as I understand it.
I bought a pitch-fork so I could get out there and turn it. I know the advice is to add brown matter but I am not really in the position to be raking my neighbor's yard... so here's the question - can I break down some moving boxes (I have a ton of those), strip them, and layer them in the pile as I turn it? Ink isn't exactly organic but neither is all the round-up that my up-hill neighbor pours all over his lawn...
What's a girl to do? The weeds really out grow the dead matter, and there is a whole lot of kitchen waste - lots of veggies eaten here so lots of corn husks, apple cores, orange and banana peels... Will my green pile eventually work itself out? I live in the Northwest so it is going to start raining regularly... is my pile in trouble? I understand that it will smell but is that just an inconvenience or is my compost doomed?
Lots of advice appreciated - anyone's ideas are welcome.