While anyone can cultivate a compost pile with a little patience, it helps to start out with a dose of compost starter of one kind or another to get it moving right along. For regular composters or compost heaps, you can purchase commercially produced organic compost starters, generally in granular form, that will accelerate the decomposition of large amounts of compost by introducing millions of micro-organisms to the mix.

Vermiculture composters — that is, those that use worms to convert organic waste to compost — require double the normal number of worms to get a speedy start. That’s about 2,000 worms rather than the ordinary 1,000 for the average vermicomposter.

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