What are compost piles?

Answer 1

A hole in the ground. You put kitchen food scraps in there, and leaves and dead flowers from the garden. When it's full, you cover it. It turns into good earth. A few months later you dig it out and spread the earth, or compost, over your garden.

In a commercial operation: It is consisted of cement walls with a compost turner that is on tracks that run down the walls and turns the compost in between the walls.
A hole which is dug in the ground to accommodate carbon- and nitrogen-rich recyclables for natural breakdown into dark-colored, fresh-smelling, nutrient-rich organic matter is what a compost pit is. The hole may or may not be covered over with a thin layer of soil.

Answer 2

A mixture of decaying organic matter, as from leaves and manure, used to improve soil structure and provide nutrients. For the source and more detailed information concerning this subject, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

Answer 3

Heaps of materials capable of being broken down aerobically are what compost piles are.

Specifically, compost designates the dark, fresh, nutrient-rich organic material that results from human- or Mother Nature-orchestrated composting. Composting involves the breakdown of carbon- and nitrogen-rich materials over time through the proper combination of favorable heat, light and moisture conditions. The materials that are eligible for composting may be collected into open-air heaps or within contained bins.

Answer 4

A compost pile is a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost

Answer 5

IT creates an ideal environment for organisms called "decomposes" to flourish and break doen vegetable material added to the heap into soil humus.

Answer 6

Material in a compost pile will eventually turn into black dirt.

Answer 7

it gets fedup and goes to the loo