usually the companies here give away their coffee grounds to other people or actually sell them -.-" i mean we don't have many coffee shops to begin with and the very few often run dry on used grounds as im not the only gardener in the state and we live in a small state since it's Hawaii. i often use my own grounds but i am talking about an outside pile i mean 1 cup of coffee does not yield a lot of grounds in general and the pile outside will need over 50 cups that is for sure more likely more due to some of the grounds washing away into the soil. but i have been using my urine to compost this pile 3 months into it been using it about 2 times a week moving into 3. and it's been doing great. the middle is all composted it's rich black and doesn't smell like piss. should be able to get a good yield within a year. would be less but people keep adding browns to it making it hard to harvest in time. it usually rains a lot and my pile can get rained on. im looking only to use the urine until it's composted a decent amount to the fact i can water it down and retain the moisture i'll use diluted urine

Probably won't make any difference in most piles. If you had a pile only of used coffee grounds and shredded paper, it might be a good idea. But my main 'brown' consists of finely shredded leaves, and I doubt that adding a few scoops of finished compost would speed things up. When I mix up a batch of matched fresh grass and or coffee grounds with finely shredded leaves, the core temp. zooms up to 150 to 160F in two to three days. Adding a bit of finished compost never hurts. But if you feel your mix is not heating up as much/fast as you expect; the answer may lie with another factor. Mix of greens and browns Freshness of greens Need small pieces Moisture too wet or dry Pile too small to retain heat.

If you have finished compost now the time to spread it on your soil is now. There is no good reason to wait until spring to spread the compost you have now. Compost can be spread on soil anytime it is ready, finished, although few of us would do that when the garden has 4 feet of snow on it.

I have a triple-bin system - here's how I intend to use it. The outer two bins are the working bins. The centre bin is used to hold browns (leaves, straw etc.. we have an abundance of greens and moisture here so I need to stockpile browns). Basicly, i've been loading one of the outer bins all year and will continue to do so until it's time to start actually using the compost (in early spring when i prepare my garden). At this point there are materials in the top layer of the pile that are fresh and not fully composted - remove these items until you reach material you want to use in your garden. The removed items are placed in the second bin (along with a lot of the microherd) to start the second bin going). I then use all the compost up and switch over to the "active" bin for the next year, and then do the same thing all over again in the next year. Some people use the 3-bin system to allow one bin to remain full for a full year, while actively composting in one bin. In this manner it takes a full 2 years to get one finished compost. Maybe that's necessary in some parts of the world but here in south-western canada the compost can be used in the same year because it finishes up really quick.