Cooking soil in low Temps and light?

I have a question about cooking my super soil in low temps. I have cats and only have limited room in my house for growing so everything is going out to the gage this week. My garage is half way insulated bit my grow rooms are fully insulated and will be heated for climate control. My question is wetter or not it is ok to cook my soil in the garage even though the temps could be between 32 and 40 degrees outside of the rooms? Hopefully. Lol

My other question is whether or not light will effect the microbes while cooking also? My other options instead of the garage is to cook my soil inside my veg room that is staying in one of the bedrooms of the house?

Thank you and I hope to get some good info.

miorggirl said:

I have a question about cooking my super soil in low temps. I have cats and only have limited room in my house for growing so everything is going out to the gage this week. My garage is half way insulated bit my grow rooms are fully insulated and will be heated for climate control. My question is wetter or not it is ok to cook my soil in the garage even though the temps could be between 32 and 40 degrees outside of the rooms? Hopefully. Lol

My other question is whether or not light will effect the microbes while cooking also? My other options instead of the garage is to cook my soil inside my veg room that is staying in one of the bedrooms of the house?

Thank you and I hope to get some good info.

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I don't think light plays much a role, if anything i'd speculate that light may possibly hinder microbial life, but that's all based on observing my wormbin, if the leaves that I have covering my wombin get disturbed (talking about you, you damn bluejays) then I see I huge difference of the "crawlies" where that is exposed to sunlight. scrape a layer away and all those microbes and such are right there, but they don't seem to like light.

the heat won't make a huge difference, just slows things down a bit.

One thing to note...
leave it cracked for air, but DO NOT LEAVE IT OPEN...
Your cats will pee in it... don't ask me how I know...
They smell of that nicely perfect soil, all balanced nicely, is too much for a cat to resist, and POOF you have a mix that's got like 30 times the amount of urea/ammonia based nitrogen in it...
Ahhhh man... not a fan of cats...

They have peed in some recycled soil and shit in it also. They love to!!! So I've already learned that mistake lol but thank you for the info. The container I'm going g to cook in has plenty of holes for oxygen. Do you think putting a Lil panda film on top would help with the top later because of the light?

miorggirl said:

They have peed in some recycled soil and shit in it also. They love to!!! So I've already learned that mistake lol but thank you for the info. The container I'm going g to cook in has plenty of holes for oxygen. Do you think putting a Lil panda film on top would help with the top later because of the light?

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I wouldn't say it's needed.
It's not too technical.

I have my wormbin/cooking soil/compost soon in a unused bathroom. You should look into worm bins! I havnt paid alotnof attention to mine lately but very useful.

Yeah, it doesn't work as well, SS needs to be warm for it to work It can freeze solid because of the moisture in it. I had to drag my trash cans in of the stuff inside to finish the cook.

Light does not seem to affect microbe activity.. Ive been looking at my compost teas under a microscope,and my teas are kept in a clear container in my mom room. Bacteria move fine, amobeas still eat.