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Whatever you do, don't mix it with your soil, or it'll leech the nitrogen out of the soil and cause issues. Put it on top of the soil; it'll decompose just fine on the top, without harming your soil.

Wood chip mulch is a valuable thing to have on top of your soil; plants love it. I wouldn't be worried about speeding up the process, personally. On top of your soil it should take about two to four years to decompose.

However, if you've mixed it with the soil, that's a totally different scenario than putting it on top as mulch, and you can add extra nitrogen, or something containing nitrogen, to help it decompose faster. Don't expect plants to grow particularly well in it in during this decomposition process; expect them to be stunted and get chlorosis or else to get burned by all the extra nitrogen you add; if you have chlorotic plants in such situations--and aren't adding enough nitrogen to the soil--regular foliar sprays of nitrogen can help the plants, since the soil won't have access to that).

I can't say how long it'll take to decompose if you've mixed it with the soil (but again, I don't recommend mixing it). It probably takes about 4 or 5 years for a ground Lombardy poplar or apricot stump to decompose, without adding extra nitrogen (in my experience).

I'm not familiar with the specific kind of wood chip mulch (lilly pills) you have. There may be special things about it that aren't true to wood chips generally. If they're closer to chopped up twigs than they are to wood chips, I'm not sure how that would impact the decomposition.

If you're just looking to compost the wood chips without using them before they've been composted, then yeah, adding extra nitrogen will probably help. However, I would personally want to use it as mulch instead (unless you've already got loads of mulch or have reason not to use it as mulch). If you plan to use the resulting compost in potting soil, make sure it's completely and utterly composted. Uncomposted wood chips floating around the mix can be sap the mix of nitrogen for a good while.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with your soil, or it'll leech the nitrogen out of the soil and cause issues. Put it on top of the soil; it'll decompose just fine on the top, without harming your soil.

Wood chip mulch is a valuable thing to have on top of your soil; plants love it. I wouldn't be worried about speeding up the process, personally. On top of your soil it should take about two to four years to decompose.

However, if you've mixed it with the soil, that's a totally different scenario than putting it on top as mulch, and you can add extra nitrogen, or something containing nitrogen, to help it decompose faster. Don't expect plants to grow particularly well in it in during this decomposition process; expect them to be stunted and get chlorosis or else to get burned by all the extra nitrogen you add; if you have chlorotic plants in such situations--and aren't adding enough nitrogen to the soil--regular foliar sprays of nitrogen can help the plants, since the soil won't have access to that).

I can't say how long it'll take to decompose if you've mixed it with the soil (but again, I don't recommend mixing it). It probably takes about 4 or 5 years for a ground Lombardy poplar or apricot stump to decompose, without adding extra nitrogen (in my experience).

I'm not familiar with the specific kind of wood chip mulch (lilly pills) you have. There may be special things about it that aren't true to wood chips generally. If they're closer to chopped up twigs than they are to wood chips, I'm not sure how that would impact the decomposition.

If you're just looking to compost the wood chips without using them before they've been composted, then yeah, adding extra nitrogen will probably help. However, I would personally want to use it as mulch instead (unless you've already got loads of mulch or have reason not to use it as mulch). If you plan to use the resulting compost in potting soil, make sure it's completely and utterly composted. Uncomposted wood chips floating around the mix can sap the mix of nitrogen for a good while.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with your soil, or it'll leech the nitrogen out of the soil and cause issues. Put it on top of the soil; it'll decompose just fine on the top, without harming your soil.

Wood chip mulch is a valuable thing to have on top of your soil; plants love it. I wouldn't be worried about speeding up the process, personally. On top of your soil it should take about two to four years to decompose.

However, if you've mixed it with the soil, that's a totally different scenario than putting it on top as mulch, and you can add extra nitrogen, or something containing nitrogen, to help it decompose faster. Don't expect plants to grow particularly well in it in during this decomposition process; expect them to be stunted and get chlorosis or else to get burned by all the extra nitrogen you add; if you have chlorotic plants in such situations--and aren't adding enough nitrogen to the soil--regular foliar sprays of nitrogen can help the plants, since the soil won't have access to that).

I can't say how long it'll take to decompose if you've mixed it with the soil (but again, I don't recommend mixing it). It probably takes about 4 or 5 years for a ground Lombardy poplar or apricot stump to decompose, without adding extra nitrogen (in my experience).

I'm not familiar with the specific kind of wood chip mulch (lilly pills) you have. There may be special things about it that aren't true to wood chips generally. If they're closer to chopped up twigs than they are to wood chips, I'm not sure how that would impact the decomposition.

If you're just looking to compost the wood chips without using them before they've been composted, then yeah, adding extra nitrogen will probably help. However, it's kind of a waste when you can already use it as mulch (unless you've already got loads of mulch or have reason not to use it as mulch). If you plan to use the resulting compost in potting soil, make sure it's completely and utterly composted. Uncomposted wood chips floating around the mix can be sap the mix of nitrogen for a good while.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with your soil, or it'll leech the nitrogen out of the soil and cause issues. Put it on top of the soil; it'll decompose just fine on the top, without harming your soil.

Wood chip mulch is a valuable thing to have on top of your soil; plants love it. I wouldn't be worried about speeding up the process, personally. On top of your soil it should take about two to four years to decompose.

However, if you've mixed it with the soil, that's a totally different scenario than putting it on top as mulch, and you can add extra nitrogen, or something containing nitrogen, to help it decompose faster. Don't expect plants to grow particularly well in it in during this decomposition process; expect them to be stunted and get chlorosis or else to get burned by all the extra nitrogen you add; if you have chlorotic plants in such situations--and aren't adding enough nitrogen to the soil--regular foliar sprays of nitrogen can help the plants, since the soil won't have access to that).

I can't say how long it'll take to decompose if you've mixed it with the soil (but again, I don't recommend mixing it). It probably takes about 4 or 5 years for a ground Lombardy poplar or apricot stump to decompose, without adding extra nitrogen (in my experience).

I'm not familiar with the specific kind of wood chip mulch (lilly pills) you have. There may be special things about it that aren't true to wood chips generally. If they're closer to chopped up twigs than they are to wood chips, I'm not sure how that would impact the decomposition.

If you're just looking to compost the wood chips without using them before they've been composted, then yeah, adding extra nitrogen will probably help. However, I would personally want to use it as mulch instead (unless you've already got loads of mulch or have reason not to use it as mulch). If you plan to use the resulting compost in potting soil, make sure it's completely and utterly composted. Uncomposted wood chips floating around the mix can be sap the mix of nitrogen for a good while.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with your soil, or it'll leech the nitrogen out of the soil and cause issues. Put it on top of the soil; it'll decompose just fine on the top, without harming your soil.

Wood chip mulch is a valuable thing to have on top of your soil; plants love it. I wouldn't be worried about speeding up the process, personally. On top of your soil it should take about two to four years to decompose.

However, if you've mixed it with the soil, that's a totally different scenario than putting it on top as mulch, and you can add extra nitrogen, or something containing nitrogen, to help it decompose faster. Don't expect plants to grow particularly well in it in during this decomposition process; expect them to be stunted and get chlorosis or else to get burned by all the extra nitrogen you add; if you have chlorotic plants in such situations--and aren't adding enough nitrogen to the soil--regular foliar sprays of nitrogen can help the plants, since the soil won't have access to that).

I can't say how long it'll take to decompose if you've mixed it with the soil (but again, I don't recommend mixing it). It probably takes about 4 or 5 years for a ground Lombardy poplar or apricot stump to decompose, without adding extra nitrogen (in my experience).

I'm not familiar with the specific kind of wood chip mulch (lilly pills) you have. There may be special things about it that aren't true to wood chips generally.

If you're just looking to compost the wood chips without using them before they've been composted, then yeah, adding extra nitrogen will probably help. However, it's kind of a waste when you can already use it as mulch (unless you've already got loads of mulch or have reason not to use it as mulch). If you plan to use the resulting compost in potting soil, make sure it's completely and utterly composted. Uncomposted wood chips floating around the mix can be sap the mix of nitrogen for a good while.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with your soil, or it'll leech the nitrogen out of the soil and cause issues. Put it on top of the soil; it'll decompose just fine on the top, without harming your soil.

Wood chip mulch is a valuable thing to have on top of your soil; plants love it. I wouldn't be worried about speeding up the process, personally. On top of your soil it should take about two to four years to decompose.

However, if you've mixed it with the soil, that's a totally different scenario than putting it on top as mulch, and you can add extra nitrogen, or something containing nitrogen, to help it decompose faster. Don't expect plants to grow particularly well in it in during this decomposition process; expect them to be stunted and get chlorosis or else to get burned by all the extra nitrogen you add; if you have chlorotic plants in such situations--and aren't adding enough nitrogen to the soil--regular foliar sprays of nitrogen can help the plants, since the soil won't have access to that).

I can't say how long it'll take to decompose if you've mixed it with the soil (but again, I don't recommend mixing it). It probably takes about 4 or 5 years for a ground Lombardy poplar or apricot stump to decompose, without adding extra nitrogen (in my experience).

I'm not familiar with the specific kind of wood chip mulch (lilly pills) you have. There may be special things about it that aren't true to wood chips generally. If they're closer to chopped up twigs than they are to wood chips, I'm not sure how that would impact the decomposition.

If you're just looking to compost the wood chips without using them before they've been composted, then yeah, adding extra nitrogen will probably help. However, it's kind of a waste when you can already use it as mulch (unless you've already got loads of mulch or have reason not to use it as mulch). If you plan to use the resulting compost in potting soil, make sure it's completely and utterly composted. Uncomposted wood chips floating around the mix can be sap the mix of nitrogen for a good while.