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Our fertilized dirt factory is cooking big time lately. In fact, my piles have been getting too hot. I have learned that too high a temperature will begin to kill the beneficial bacteria at work, primarily because it coincides with the point when oxygen is getting used up.

All I need to do at that point is stir the pile to aerate it.

That means I should be paying closer attention to the daily temperatures, and not just turning it weekly, as I had been doing.

The picture I took of that pile looks a bit like a volcano, but I don’t think there is any chance of it erupting.

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