Garden Composter - Free Compost Accelerator

Here at garden composter we enjoy watching the miracle of recycling garden waste and kitchen scraps into good garden compost. At the moment we have an automatic addition of compost accelerator or compost activator each week.

We add poultry manure to the compost heap every week when we clean out the chicken coop. Plus, we have a dry compost toilet which is manually emptied onto the compost heaps every few days. That means we get lots of nitrogen and bacteria that like to break down organic matter added regularly, throughout our compost piles.

I am aware that a composting loo is not the ideal solution for many gardeners hoping to activate their compost piles quickly. To be honest, I would not have gone down the compost toilet route until relatively recently. Using a dry composting toilet is no hardship and not the smelly nasty thing people often assume it to be. For us, though, it was an ideal solution on moving to a ruined farmhouse with no plumbing! Once we had fitted our plumbing and a conventional bathroom we had already got used to using the compost toilet and all the benefits of using human manure as a compost accelerator.

So, even though we do not have to use a compost loo, we still do. That means I get all the benefits of a compost accelerator without having to buy one in. You can, simply buy a powdered poultry manure, blood or bone-meal compost accelerator to ensure your compost bins work quickly and efficiently. That's what we did for several years.

Then, we discovered the beauty of urine as a compost activator. The brilliant thing about wee, widdle, pee or urine is that it is so safe to use. There are no nasty pathogens lurking in urine like there are in solid wastes. Plus, urine is actually the main supplier of nitrogen in manure of all kinds. So putting urine straight onto a compost heap is a great way of activating it.

If you have a man about the house make sure he urinates on the compost heap regularly. At least once a week, but once a day is better still. That ensures your compost heap always has a fresh supply of nitrogen to get things heating up quickly.

If you try adding lots of dry straw to a compost heap you will see how slowly it breaks down. But, if its straw from a stable which livestock have been urinating on, it will break down really fast. All compost makers want their finished garden compost to be made as quickly as possible.

There are no excuses if you use a closed compost bin either. You will just need to wee in a bottle first, rather than just urinating straight on the compost heap! Adding some natural urine compost accelerator is a cheap and easy way to ensure your garden composter works rapidly, no matter how course the other ingredients in the compost pile are.