Hot piles need lots of nitrogen, moisture, and aerobic microbes!
You can heat it up fast by adding a microbial activator like lots of high nitrogen greens like raw animal manures, fish scraps, natural urea, high protein or ammonia food scraps, or even protein cattle feeds.
Also you can increase microbial activity by adding any form of sugary products (like molasses) to your pile. Sugars are the only high carboneous materials that I am aware of, that are easily digestible by all microbes. Thus sugars and nitrogen can both increase internal heating.
Constant air and moisture are essential too. The aerobic pleasant smelling microbes need lots of oxygen from the air in order to breeed faster. This can be accomplished by either turning the pile more, or just by designing the pile with better air vents, or by using good biostimulant teas to feed the microbes. Water is essential because all microbes need water to survive and breed.
_________________ The entire Kingdom of God can be totally explained as an Organic Garden (Mark 4:26)
William Cureton
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