Help speeding up compost

It is expensive stuff! but have you tried using urine as a compost activator, it free  and does work well. It won't help with your Horsetail problem, though 
Of course nothing is going to help very much until it turns a bit warmer *sigh*

It is expensive stuff! but have you tried using urine as a compost activator, it free  and does work well.

Good advice, exactly what I do. Works wonders and keeps the foxes off your compost too.

I'm blessed with neighbours who donate their garden waste to fuel my 3 big pallette compost bins.
I also have a problem with Horsetail, and I need to get hold of some Amcide to speed up the composting process. Amazon currently has this product at £12 a kg, does anyone else know where I can pick this up a bit cheaper? Once upon a time it was a quarter of the price....

My neighbor was in the very same situation as yourself, he moved his compost heap around the areas where he had the mares tail and it worked a dream.  Amazon was the only place he could find Amcide for sale.

Make sure the compost heap/bin is in full sun, not behind the shed  .  I am a lover of smaller heaps over big ones.  Small is beautiful   I think bigger compost heaps don’t get hot enough.

Stir up Sunday!   Give the contents a good stir and add some fresh material. Some kitchen compost perhaps

When it does begin to warm up outside keep an eye on the contents and water it if it gets dry

Can you explain the link to marestail please, does amcide kill it?

See what John says about it here

Control Horse or Mare's Tail - Equisetum Arvense

Thank you, I’ll stick with pulling it up every time I see it or hoeing it off at 7cms.

That's normally my approach, but I've got a really stubborn patch that I haven't been able to control and I wanted to erradicate it once and for all!