What creates compost?

Answer 1

The breaking down of compostable materials into their constituent elements is what creates compost. Generally, compostable materials may be described as brown in color and carbon rich or green in color and nitrogen rich. The breakdown takes place as natural decay that's encouraged by appropriate levels of air, heat, light, and moisture. It also is encouraged by regular turning of the materials. In fact, the more often the turning, the faster the breakdown. By following proper procedures, compost thus may be created in anywhere from about a month to about a year.

Answer 2

You need compostable materials. You need an accessible, easily monitored place to set up a bin, box, heap or pile. You need the availability of air, heat, light, moisture, and oxygen. For the compostable materials must be aerated enough to have oxygen, heated and lighted enough to support breakdown, and moist enough to have the consistency of a gently wrung out sponge. You need the time to turn the pile regularly. For the more often the pile is turned, the quicker the decomposition, and the sooner the production of humus.

Answer 3

Compost is like fertilizer. Organic matter is good for the soil. And it is good for the environment for vegetable kitchen scraps to not go in landfills.

Answer 4

Anything that is edible but not contaminated, dairy-based, diseased, germinating, greasy, meaty, moldy or oily can be considered as produce that can be made into compost. The above-mentioned items may be compostable in landfills even though they are not recommended in compost bins, gardens, heaps, piles or pits because of attractiveness to foraging wildlife and compromise to composting processes. The guidelines also will hold for food scraps and kitchen leftovers other than fruits and vegetables.

Answer 5

Compost is made of decomposing organic matter

Answer 6

compost can be made from leaves, mowed grass, old hay, manure, pulled weeds, kitchen fruit and vegetable scrapes, coffee grounds.

Answer 7

you need a compost bin, dirt, newspaper and kitchen food scraps

Answer 8

Compost is used to add nutrients to the soil, in other words it will definatly make your garden grow

Answer 9

Biodegradable garbage and nutrient rich soil