COMPOST IDEA - GOOD?
 

I've come up with a potential business idea to compost grass clippings and
leaves, using disposable plastic bags as the composting containers, rather
than composting stations.

The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste and turn it into
a useful garden material over several weeks of passive exterior storage,
without the exertion of rotating or emptying storage bins.

I think this approach would appeal to the un-diehard gardener.

Feel free to contact me at . I will also
monitor this ng for a while.

COMPOST IDEA - GOOD?
 

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Lucy & Howard Albert said:

The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste and turn it into
a useful garden material

Hmm, a secret formula. Wnder what it is? You could add a nitrogen source
to speed up composting, that works pretty well. Maybe urea, then you could give
instructions "just p*** on it.

Would it sell? Maybe, but I know I would never use something where I didn't
what was added to it.


Dave
http://members.tripod.com/~VideoDave

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I've come up with a potential business idea to compost grass clippings and
leaves, using disposable plastic bags as the composting containers, rather
than composting stations.

The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste and turn it into
a useful garden material over several weeks of passive exterior storage,
without the exertion of rotating or emptying storage bins.

Bad.

Gardeners have been doing that ever since the plastic bag was
invented. What's more the "secret formula" isn't secret, and nobody can
produce it cheaper than we.

Janet.

COMPOST IDEA - GOOD?
 

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Lucy & Howard Albert wrote:

The idea is to add a (secret) formula

Your target market is no longer intelligent people. Your target market
is people who believe in magic, and have a poor understanding of what
compost is, and how it happens.

Now that's not to say you couldn't make a lot of money with your idea.
You just need to be aware that your target consumer isn't going to be
someone found at a garden center in the middle of the week, or someone
who reads this newsgroup. Your target is more likely to be someone who
buys marigolds at the supermarket in September.

I may buy chicken at KFC with their secret blend of 11 herbs and spices,
but if they told me that there were secret ingredient in the cole slaw,
I'd pass. The secret isn't so much what the herbs and spices are, but in
what proportions they're used, but secret ingredients in the cole slaw
is just plain scary.

--
Warren H.

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