Yes, my kitchen garbage dug into the garden as compost grows also!! I have nice cucumbers growing from old cukes composted in last Fall & they taste great ... not bitter as I had expected! The potato peelings composted in the garden have produced a lot of good size 'taters but since they are growing everywhere (guess I miss some in the Fall when I dig them)I read that tomatoes & potatoes are NOT companion plants & it seems the tomatoe plants are not growing as tall for me as in the past. Think this Fall I will make sure NO potatoes are left in the ground where I grow the tomatoes again & see if it makes a difference. On the farm we had to cut potato 'eyes' to plant each Spring but guess the store bought potatoes have viable 'eyes' still in the peelings!

There are people that will tell you that you cannot grow plants in a compost pile and yet they will tell you to make a Lasagna planting bed which is really a compost pile. I have had many different plants germinate and grow in my compost piles over the years, although I have not really let them get fully mature there since the compost was taken out, spread around, and those plants transplanted to continue growth in the new bed. Often the fruits were very good although sometimes they were not. Go ahead and plant in that cold compost.

I think sedum might not give you much return for the cost of using them to make compost. The whole idea of compost is to recycle things from your home, yard and garden that you otherwise would have thrown away. Like fruit peels, lawn clippings, spoiled fruits and vegetables, etc. Those things are all considered green for your compost. Browns would be leaves, shredded newspaper or cardboard, and eggshells. Mix the greens and browns together and you have a garden amendment that cost you nothing and helps to keep landfills from being loaded up with things that are still useful. And these items are all free. I wouldn't buy seeds to plant something just to make compost out of it. You may be thinking of the principle of 'green manure' where the garden is sown with winter rye, red clover or hairy vetch, plants with short life span, that also fix nitrogen in the soil as they grow. They are planted in fall and the roots help to maintain the soil through winter and in Spring they are turned under to fertilize the soil for planting a garden. If you have a garden you don't need to grow anything green for the compost pile. As you trim and thin plants through Spring and Summer, put your trimmings in the compost pile. Add all of the grass clippings, junk mail, newspapers, cereal boxes, kitchen waste, leaves, stems, sawdust(from non-treated wood only), wood ashes, chicken poo, cow, horse, goat, sheep or rabbit manure. Things to avoid in your compost: grease, meat, pine, citrus, pet waste.

Good advice above. Just cover the pile a bit, start a temporary pile somewhere and wait it out. Post more pics when you have gourds! I do think it's a gourd plant despite the resemblance of the leaves to beans. The thick stems are easy to distinguish from bean vines, not to mention the flowers and fruit.