Abstract: A plant support and compost enclosure, comprising rigid panels of fencing wherein the spacing of the horizontal rods in the lower portion of each panel is much smaller than the spacing in the upper portion in order to better contain the compost. The rigid panels are connected by rings, thereby enabling the apparatus to stand without any support and have the ability of being folded flat for easy storage. A minimum of three rigid panels is needed for the apparatus to stand unsupported. The upper portion of one of the rigid panels does not contain any vertical or horizontal rods, so as to form an opening to facilitate the loading of composting material for compost production. The composting material is innoculated with micro-organisms and watered from time to time to produce compost.

Abstract: A soil supplement for addition to potted plants consisting of microorganisms, enzymes, and various substances rich in protein and carbohydrates including bone meal, torula yeast, potassium citrate, soybean flour and durum wheat flour. The potassium citrate acts as a chelating or sequestering agent. The substance is used in connection with the water used to moisten the soil of the potted plant. The effect of adding the supplement to the soil is that the microorganism count greatly increases due to the microorganisms and enzymes acting on the various substances rich in protein and carbohydrates. The sequestering agent tends to maintain the solution in suspension through the earth. As water and/or the supplement are added to the soil from time to time, any salts accumulated on the surface of the soil or on the edge of the pot are gradually sequestered into the soil and are ionized by the action of the enzymes and microorganisms to produce minerals useful for the plant.

Abstract: A composting mixture for facilitating the rapid decomposition of organic material to be composted in which there is a relatively small amount of various microorganisms for digesting the material, a relatively small amount of enzymes for breaking down the cell structure of the organic material to enable it to be digested by the microorganisms, and a relatively large amount of materials rich in proteins and carbohydrates to facilitate the rapid reproduction of the microorganisms prior to the time that the enzymes have broken down the cell structure of the organic material. The materials rich in protein and carbohydrates are so selected as to provide a ratio of one to from three to four parts of protein by weight to carbohydrate. This simulates the ratio of protein to carbohydrate in growing vegetable matter and enables initial rapid reproduction of the microorganisms. The enzymes include a hemicellulase, a cellulase, a protease, an amylase and lipase.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for quickly composting organic material which involves the use of a flexible bag having a plurality of perforations through the body portion of the bag and a composting tablet having a water soluble binder in which is retained a large number of natural micro-organisms, the bag being filled with the organic material and an aqueous solution formed by adding the tablet to a predetermined amount of water. The open end of the bag is thereafter closed and periodically the bag is compressed to force out through the perforations gases resulting from decomposition and then fluffed to draw air into the bag through the perforations. The composting tablet preferably contains enzymes which accelerate the activity of the microorganisms and a nitrogen releasing substance to supply the nitrogen necessary for continued decomposition of the material being composted.