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Torn the compost pile weekly to create more available oxygen. Same decomposition occurs under anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions, but the process is slow and produces foul odors.

Maintain tint moisture level of a squeezed-out sponge. Too much water pushes oxygen from the air spaces and creates anaerobic conditions. Water the layers of materials as you add to them, and water the pile during dry periods.

Temperature, both

and outside ti^campost pile, affects decomposition. Inside temperatures between 90 and 140 rtngrnes Fahrenheit help destroy undesirable weed seeds and diseases Outside temperatures of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, are

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