Composting accelerants

I refer to stuff like Garotta and the B&Q equivalent, Verve Compost Maker. Has anybody ever done trials of these products? How effective are they? Are they any better than sprinkling a handful of Growmore into the heap, or indeed as some old gardeners recommend, simply peeing onto the heap?

I've always just sprinkled general fertilizer onto the heap when I remembered but am I missing something here?

comfrey or nettle tea are the same price as the last suggestion you made but more time consuming to make! I suspect that getting the mix and water content of your compost heap correct will have more effect than just adding these products.

Balanced mix and warmth being the operative words of course

I am foutunate Chicken poo works wonders.

I love composting!  Sad I know    I compost whatever I can get my hands on and refuse to give stuff away to the green bin    I hate it when I see folks wheeling green bins off the plots, too lazy to make compost and their imperative a tidy plot rather than a productive one. Still, it takes all sorts 

I think a layer of lawn mowings makes a good accelerant, gets really hot, especially if they're wet. I also use horse manure and sometimes chicken pellets as accelerants. I've got 4 big wooden bins and 3 plastic daleks, but there's never enough space for everything. I use the wheelie bin to get rid of stuff I don't want to put on the compost bins, like blighted tomato plants or nasturtiums full of seeds, or stuff that just takes too long to rot down, like twigs and big tough root balls.

Big tough root balls and cabbage stalks, thuggish stuff, goes in my pallet bin in the far corner of the plot, covered over and left to do its thing. I water and turn it a few times a year. It all goes down eventually

Interesting to read this thread as I've just started a pallet compost bin.  I've filled on pallet bin already (with things like rabbit bedding/chicken bedding/laws mowings/shredded hedge cuttings/some plants that have passed over and general kitchen waste).  I was wondering whether to get some dalek compost bins to go with the two wooden ones (it's one at the moment but might be two soon if I keep badgering the oh...).   Anyhoos... just thinking out loud!

Hannah