It’s Time for Testing!
It's been 18 months since I stopped adding to my first compost bin, so now it's time to test the results. I've been adding absolutely everything to the pile- all food, dead mice, weeds, compost toilet waste, cat waste- and it's been cooking consistently the whole time. All the toilet material generates plenty of heat, and without it, the pile is quite different. The lab needs a gallon of the stuff- I thoroughly cleaned my trowel, put on some gloves and got to work. My main interest is to see if I'll pass the fecal coliform tests, and I'm also curious how fertile my compost is. Being that the pile is largely toilet material and sawdust, maybe it won't be thoroughly rich in nutrients? Only one way to find out.…