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.