Composting? Does the composting process speed up considerably during the summer?
Does the composting process speed up considerably during the summer?
Answers: Yes!
"Your pile can go dormant surrounded by the winter, but as the temperature increases, 3 different types of aerobes appear:
at 50-70 degree, psychrophilic- low temperature microbes start to multiply and raise the piles heat.
at 70-100 degrees, mesophilic- mid warmth bacteria give somebody a lift over, digesting carbon for energy and nitrogen for protein.
at 110-140 degree, thermophilic bacteria verbs the digestion. And if they can maintain the 140-150 point temperatures for 72 hours, they can kill in cold blood off weed seed and many pathogens.
Turning, mixing, and stirring the pile can preserve oxygen available for these processes...Quite often a cool pile can reheat inside days of turning. All stages of this cycle require that the pile maintains proper moisture. Throughout the pile it should hold the moisture of a damp sponge. Too damp and we go anaerobic. Too dry and we travel dormant."
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Yes the warmer temperature speed things up