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06-05-2004, 07:02 PM

(Cinnamon) wrote in message om...
(Laser6328) wrote in message ...
Another thing to add to speed up the composting is COKE! I remember reading
about it in Organic Gardening a few years back. I don't know if it is the
carbonization, the sugar, or the phosphoric acid. I find that it does heat the
pile up. I also add stale beer. Don't limit your compost collecting to only
solids. Fishtank water is good as are many of the liquids we pour down the
drain.

Ed

What about Mtn Dew, coffee, OJ, and/or milk?

Cinnamon L - Cincinnati OH

I think the Dew, Coffee and OJ would all be fine. I'd worry about the
smell of the milk though it would obviously decompose in a compost
heap.

Phosphoric acid is high in phosphate so it seems that would be very
helpful for lots of green plants (i.e. after you composted the
material). As high school ecology students can attest, dumping Coke
into an aqueous community creates great algal blooms.