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I managed to get a chemical analysis of the compost produced by the local composting plant. As far as I understand the process, they use an anaerobic process to ferment the bio waste and extract biogas from it. After the gas has been extracted they pasteurize the compost, dry it and perform aerobic composting. The result looks quite different than what I’ve seen on youtube videos – it’s not crumbly black soil but brown and dry. It doesn’t feel much like soil.
Here is the analysis: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3JkYhAwlepfOWZsa2d0eVZOLVU
Do you think it’s any good?
As I have never seen an analysis of compost before these figures don’t mean much to me, hopefully somebody else might be able to give you a more qualified answer. Here, in Switzerland, we can also get compost that are the leftovers of biogas production, it sounds much like yours. I usually mix it with horse manure and leave it to compost some more for at least 6 months before using. I’m not sure how much, if any, good it does, the only positive effect I’ve noticed is that after spreading a good layer there are hardly any slugs, they don’t seem to like it.
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