It was probably too high in Nitrogen and moisture. That urine smell is ammonia formed from the N. Your addition of paper should solve the problem. You want to keep your compost mixed and full of shredded paper. The compost should be three parts brown (shredded paper, junk mail) to one part green (kitchen scraps)... and it should only be moist, not wet. Keep mixing in dry shredded paper until you get rid of the smell. The compost doesn't need to be tossed, it just needs a bit of tweaking.

man i hate these 'i read somewhere once' ... thoughts ... been there.. done that ... crippled me from taking action ... stick your hand in dry liquid fert .. and it will 'burn' any open cuts or hangnails.. just like table salt .. or vinegar properly dilute it .... and stick you hand in the bucket.. nothing.. or at worst.. you have a blue or green hand .. lol .. in my warped world.. its all about proper dilution.. if you care to experiment .. find some slugs.. salt them ... while drooling.. lol ... they will basically slime themselves to dehydration and death trying to get the salt off ... [if you really want to get rid of them.. i would recommend the saute in in garlic butter thingee .. lol] .. now take a plate.. and pour in a little [not to drown them.. but to make them crawl across] some properly diluted liquid fert.. and i would not be surprised that they crawl right out.. and head for you prized plants ... rather than relying on third hand 'things' .. try the 800 number on the package ... growing a lush thick garden .. is going to be better for your wildlife.. than cowering in fear and not maintaining a thriving environment .... that will be conducive to the wildlife you want to attract ... and this of course is all about PROPER application.. you start throwing handfuls of fert around the yard.. sure.. i would not doubt you could create salt mines that are a negative ... but that scenario really isnnt what you are talking about.. and by that time .... your plants will start dying from over-fert'g look at it this way.. under the hypothesis that all salt is bad.. one would expect.. up here in the rust belt ... that there would be no beneficial animals.. anywhere a road/driveway/sidewalk is salted ... and i just dont believe that is the fact ... if you can go organic.. all the power to ya.. i just dont buy that some properly diluted liquid fert is going to be a negative ... ken

Dave, our posts crossed. Thanks for that link! I actually have a bottle of BT!! I got it to kill fungus gnats on my grapevine cuttings! Wow!! Going out to spray now!! Seriously, there is nothing more disgusting on this earth than that, shudder, sicky green, fat, ugly worm!! They could make a horror movie out of it, but nobody would go! It is entirely revolting!! Thanks so much for all the great advice!!I KNEW this forum would come through! I wish you all great tomatoes! Sell some to Krogers. I'll buy em!! Your newest fan, Suzi

Hi PJ, Rock Flipping Day was started by a Nature Blogger called Via Negativa, with lots of other bloggers joining in to all flip rocks, take photographs and post about what they found. People from all over the world joined in - there are lots of crawlie things in the photos so be warned! The guy who started it posted this list of participants. Good think I went out to take photos for my blog post or those flatworms would have gone on eating my earthworms! Annie at the Transplantable Rose Here is a link that might be useful: Rock Flipping Day roundup