If you can get your compost pile hot, up to at least 140 degrees F, for at least 3 days, and keep the pile constantly aerated and moisturized, there will be absolutely no danger of ever sprouting any potential weed seeds in your garden beds or lawn.
I compost fresh weedy horse manure all the time. I have composted kudzu, bull thistle, and lots of other weeds from the highway in my hot piles, with no weed sprouting problems in my garden.
Using lots of liquid molasses or dry molasses will definitely speed up the heating and microbial growth in the pile. Using lots of high nitrogen (like urea) compost teas or nitrogen loaded "rain water", instead of plain chlorinated faucet water, will definitely heat things up too.
_________________ The entire Kingdom of God can be totally explained as an Organic Garden (Mark 4:26)
William Cureton
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