Also, has anyone used ammonia as a fertilizer or add to their compost to accelerate composting?
- I have two 4'x4'x4' bins made out of scrap 2x3s and chicken wire.
- In goes ground up leaves, kitchen scraps (coffee grinds, egg shells, banana peels, etc), and chicken manure and bedding.
- I stir with an auger every week or so, and water if we get a real dry spell.
- At about six months or so I shovel the dark brown earth into a wheelbarrow (about 7 loads per bin) and dump it in our box gardens.
I know some people get pretty technical about it, (maybe even some gardening Freepers, I'm sure), but I try to keep it simple. It's just dirt after all....
Yes , but not household ammonia. .
Then you have Epsom Salt .
Back to ammonia, an interesting read:
If every farmer in every country on every continent in the world used every inch of fertile land, sprinkled their fields with natural fertilizers, meticulously rotated their crops, and convinced everyone to eat a vegetarian diet, they could feed about four billion people. But, as of 2016, more than seven billion people roamed the earth. And although pockets of people are starving, the problem isn’t that there isn’t enough food. There’s plenty of food. The problem is that the food isn’t distributed efficiently to those who need it...
Today, about 130 million tons of nitrogen are removed from the air and spread across the earth as fertilizer...Never before have so many people enjoyed so much food.
But there’s a dark side... Every year about 1.5 million tons of nitrogen are dumped into the Gulf. This excess nitrogen has caused an overgrowth of algae that clouds the water and chokes off oxygen and sunlight to other species, like fish and mollusks. - https://www.popsci.com/fertilizer-nitrogen#page-2