There are compost accelerators which are a culture of the specially selected bacteria needed to rot down green waste. It’s a way of introducing a large dose of the right bacteria instantly rather than wait for the natural ambient bacteria to multiply up to speed. To accelerate means to increase the speed (rate), so they should increase the speed of composting (ie reduce the time it takes to make good quality compost. We can define a compost accelerator as a product that increases the speed (rate) of decomposition. We do not believe commercial compost accelerators accelerate the rate of garden composting to any meaningful degree. (We explain why and the detail below). The only meaningful way to accelerate(increase the rate) of decompositionis to increase the heap temperature. The general advice is to dilute the urine with 4 water to 1 urine. This isn’t so necessary if you are putting it on compost but you definitely will need to dilute it if you are tempted to use it as a liquid fertiliser. Raw urine is tends to be very strong. If you deliver undiluted urine onto a small area then you risk killing the plant that you are trying to grow.

Green– this is usually soft, leafy material, including grass clippings, sappy green plants (such as annual weeds), crop waste, old fruit and vegetables and kitchen peelings. These materials are rich in nitrogen When spread over the soil surface or lightly forked in, home-made compostadds valuable organic matter that improves the soil’s structure, aeration and biodiversity.It can boost moisture retention in fast-draining sandy soils and aiddrainage in heavy clay soils. Used as a mulch, it helps to hold moisture in the soil and slow down evaporation in summer. Inalcik, Halil (2000). The Ottoman Empire: the classical ... - Google Books. ISBN 978-1-84212-442-0 . Retrieved 2009-09-16. Alternatively, you may consider adding garden soil to your heap. This soil is rich with microbes that aid the decay process. Hot composting produces greater volume than cold composting, hot compost contains far fewer weed seeds, and it is much richer in substances that promote plant growth. Besides being good for your garden, hot composting is good for you, too. Making a batch takes about three weeks, and every few days you will get a full body workout forking and turning your smouldering compost, which is way more fun than going to the gym. Hot Composting BasicsThe last civilian executions in Spain, both by garroting, were those of the poisoner Pilar Prades in May 1959 and the spree killer José María Jarabo in July 1959. Recent legislation had caused many crimes (such as robbery–murder) to fall under the jurisdiction of military law; thus, prosecutors rarely requested civilian executions. Military executions were still performed in Spain until the 1970s. The garrotings of Heinz Chez (real name Georg Michael Welzel) and Salvador Puig Antich in March 1974, both convicted in the Francoist State of killing police officers, were the last state-sanctioned garrotings in Spain and in the world.

Garden compost piles are a great source of minerals and nutrients necessary for plant growth. The process may take longer due to an unbalanced carbon to nitrogen ratio. This process will keep going until the food source to the microorganisms has become depleted. At this point you will have finished compost.To get the best out of a static bin, take out compost from the bottom of the bin. Only take it out if it looks like finished compost. This will leaving a space for the material above it to drop down. To activate means to start, to get a reaction going. A compost activator should therefore help get things started. There are several types of activators and we go through each below. This probably won’t happen straight away and you don’t want it all to drop at once. A gradual drop bit by bit will allow air to get at every piece. After a short while the contents will drop down and everything in the bin will have been aerated. This process can happen every time you take a small amount of compost from the bottom of the bin and will allow for more space at the top for fresh waste to be added. Composters are a great way to reduce food waste while simultaneously benefitting your garden. They are both compact and mess-free as they keep any materials that you add to them inside the composter until the compost is ready to use. Adding organic matter to your soil helps to improve its health and structure by letting it retain additional nutrients and moisture. Using compost in your garden also means that you’re less likely to need to add fertilisers and pesticides to your soil and plants. Used correctly biochar can have a tremendous positive impact on soil health and plant growth. In recent years, adding biochar to compost has become the recommended way to "activate" biochar and help ensure success. Think of raw biochar as a dry sponge. To activate it, (i.e. charge the biochar with water and plant nutrients), it needs to soak in the compost. When you add the SoilFixer humification agent, not only do you increase colloidal humus, and improve composting, as biochar is 80% of the CHA (SoilFixer humification agent) mix, you are activating and adding biochar to your soil. Using CHA you make a DIY version of SF60 - our Biochar Super Compost.

If you add nothing to your compost and rely completely on the forces of nature, then there is one thing that you must do to accelerate composting of green waste. Do what you can to get air into it. The best system of all, for this, is the compost tumbler. These are designed to keep turning over the mass. Every time you roll over a compost tumbler you are going to open up any lumps and allow air in. If heat (temperature) is the secret tofast composting, what benefit do all the compostingactivators on sale really have? We are often asked why is my compost not breaking down? It has been 18 months and I still don't have any compost - how do I get my compost faster? If you don’t fancy the idea of using urine to help rot down a heap of lawn clippings or shredded hedge trimmings, then there is an alternative. You can buy sulphate of ammonia. This has all the same properties as urine but it comes as a prilled or pelleted, bagged version. If you have a lazy garden compost pile, you should consider adding compost accelerators. The products not only activate and speed up the decomposition process, but they also add nutrients and minerals to your compost pile.

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If you are looking to make the decomposition process of organic material faster, then a compost starter or accelerator could prove useful. If you have never heard of a compost starter/accelerator, it is simply a blend that gets the composting process going and then speeds up the process. But there is such a thing as a good and a bad compost starter and accelerator. Keep reading to find out more about this product and which are the best and worst. Choose a compost bin to suitthe amount of space you have available and the quantity of waste your garden produces. For beginners and those with a small garden,a compact plastic bin is oftena good choice. Larger gardens and allotments may be able to fill a large wooden compost ‘bay’, such as those made from pallets. Keen composters may prefer several in a row, to hold compost at different stages of readiness.Bins of less than 1 cubic m (1.3 cubic yd) are generally less efficient than larger ones, but will still make compost successfully, althoughless rapidly. Unless you are a commercial composter, it is unlikely you going not going to notice the 10% reduction in days. However, the difference between the time at 10C and 60C is huge - 14 vs 486!