like if you would tear grass and smell it. It just smells like cut grass. No onion smell. It's really light and airy....I'm not totally convinced that it's "nutgrass" (sry Nancy) because it just doesn't look like any of the images I have viewed. I'm just gonna let it grow and see what it does. Everything needs a chance at life and I'm gonna wait this one out. Thanks for replying! :-)

completely. Now hers are doing fantastic and spreading. By next year, you'll be smiling at them.

grass clippings and not enough browns to balance it); not enough air or too wet. As Sia says, making compost is fairly straight forward but it's a bit like baking a cake - you need a balance of moist green fresh ingredients (which contain nitrogen - like your food scraps, grass clippings and manure) and brown dry ingredients (which contain carbon) - about 2 parts brown (such as dead leaves, dry grass clippings, hay etc) to 1 part green. You also need to get air into the mix so the right kind of microorganisms can go to work and it doesn't become anaerobic and smell and sufficient moisture for them to go to work and break it down. You can do this by adding both coarse and fine materials, watering them in as you go and turning regularly to aerate. Always finish with a brown carbon layer (this stops rodents and flies etc tucking into your food scraps) too! Hope this helps.

they will disappear .. :)