On 20/11/2020 07:15, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:29:03 +0000, Derek
wrote:


Was informed a few years ago, that Garotta was a waste of money, as
there is enough (of what Garotta supplied) in any spade full of soil,

I am not sure that is entirely true at least on small garden heaps it
does seem to help them to go hot at more a modest size.

I don't have shares in Garotta, but I do think it can be useful in small
gardens to help a heap along at the start of a season.

This thread made me look up the ingredients in Garotta, seems that its
"Active ingredients - Nitrogen with ground limestone." now being a
follower of Gardeners Question time, seem to remember they were
belivers of
"Urine has been long-established as a free compost "activator" (aka
"liquid gold"), because it's full of nitrogen.


Take your choice of acitvator :-)

Peeing on your compost heap was recommended here several times a few
years ago.

I do wonder, being male, of a certain age, and with the compost heap
being some distance from the house, whether such an activity will become
physiologically "de rigueur" in the future. :-)

On a more scientific point, I found a soil thermometer I had forgotten
about and pushed it in the top of my compost heap a few days ago.
Yesterday, about 22 cm down, it recorded 20 deg C. Is that high, low, or
average for this time of year?

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Jeff