Espoma Organic Traditions Compost Bio-Excelerator

Comments about Espoma Organic Traditions Compost Bio-Excelerator:

Wonderful starter product, has helped me immensely.

Service and delivery comments:

Delivery was lightening fast, the product was exactly as ordered in perfect condition. What more could a budding composter want?

Comments about Espoma Organic Traditions Compost Bio-Excelerator:

I will use it to assist composting. I haven't used it yet so the jury is still out and I've heard they're not twelve angry men, but are reasonable.

Comments about Espoma Organic Traditions Compost Bio-Excelerator:

This is a follow-up review after using Espoma for one compost mix in the Wizard, Jr. Espoma works absolutely great on certain things only: soft produce like bananas, apples, pears, melons, leafy greens, all root veggies like carrots, beets, onions, potatoes, citrus peels, coffee grounds, tea leaves, flower petals (no stems), and chicken droppings.

I avoided putting anything of the corn plant into the compost because it just doesn't break down (not the stalk, not the cob, not the kernels, silk, etc.) Two years in a compost pile never broke these items apart - they shriveled, got hard and wet, but never broke down.

Espoma did not help break down the following one bit: avocado skins (came out super hard and unbroken), tomatillo outer paper skins (came out with lacey veins, bright green and never turned dark), autumn leaves (turned black but the veins in the leaves got hard and the leaves themselves stayed solid - never decomposed in the bin), straw (came out the same way it went in - tough, unbroken, still yellow), egg shells (should've crushed these fine before adding to compost because the whole shells never broke down). All these came out of the compost bin the way they went in and NEVER broke down and sifting was useless because I had a black gooey mess sticking to the big chunks that didn't break down like the straw and leaves.

Now that I know what Espoma doesn't break down, I won't throw these into the next compost mix. Espoma is truly nice when used on select plants and foods. Harder yard waste is useless to waste nice Espoma on it. Every gardener is very different. This is just comments on my particular experience using Espoma. Extremely nice product but now I will only use it on food plant compost.

Comments about Espoma Organic Traditions Compost Bio-Excelerator:

Used with 96 gal. rotating composter the product performs as advertized.

Comments about Espoma Organic Traditions Compost Bio-Excelerator:

The Espoma product is described as 4 lbs but I received instead 3.5 lbs printed on the bag. Anyway, I almost gave this 4 stars instead of 5 because of the website's wrong weight description when I ordered. Otherwise, the product is good in that it is almost odorless, has helped to instantly heat up the contents of our Wizard Jr. compost bin and I have enough left over to start a second bin next week. Our local hardware and garden stores had no compost starters in stock and some didn't even know what we asked for - they wanted to sell us finished bags of compost instead because they didn't know about compost starters or about Espoma. The stores didn't even carry decent compost bins or compost crocks. We researched for 6 months to find a cute rooster kitchen compost crock elsewhere and got Bokashi composter from Hayneedle for the crock. We researched for about 8 months to find the no-assembly, easy-to-use Wizard Jr. compost bin and Espoma compost starter from Hayneedle. Hayneedle has a variety of compost pails and filters, bins, Bokashi kitchen compost starter and starter storage containers. Hayneedle offered what we needed and on their compost bins webpage are very helpful with their products, composting, and gardening questions. This is our one-stop gardening/composting shop now.