Storing compost

[gnappi]

I generally use up much of my compost batches, what I do not use straightaway I give to friends.

My last compost batch I put between a stone wall and my house for storage. It was beautiful and the worms happily infested it :-)

Now a few months later the "compost" if I can call it that is made up of hard nodules and clumps of fine veiny roots. I'm guessing the worms and their tea had something to do with this but is this compost usable? If not how to recover all of my effort to make it usable again?

 

[K-Rimes]

If compost dries out, you're losing the bacteria and soil life that makes compost so valuable. The moisture is what keeps it all alive. There is still some good stuff there, undoubtedly, but it's not going to be the same as fresh from the composter that's still fresh and wet.

[gnappi]

Funny that, I wet it down every time I water my yard, I'll re-double my watering efforts next time. 

[SoCalGardenNut]

I don’t store them, I barely have enough to use here. I use them for my peonies, my jujube trees.

[Seanny]

Only nitrogen in the form of ammonia gas off.
The rest of nutrients are still there.

No amount of worms can create nor destroy any nutrients.