Compost and Mulch

Provide air and water pore spaces, clean final resting places, food sources, and natural shelters are the things that compost does to worms. Dark-colored, fresh-smelling, nutrient-rich compost gives worms passageways for aeration and moisturization, places to expel wastes and to expire, and sources of prey. It teems with nutrients and other soil food web members.

Compost is the final product of decaying material. It is produced when organic material is piled and turned and then after a period of time it is broken down by bacteria and is then called compost

I use our cat manure and litter in compost intended for the trees. Cat/ dog manure is not recommended for edible gardens because of possible parasites. For non edible flower beds or trees it is OK if fully composted....

Acidic compost for plants that love acid conditions, like azaleas, rhododendrons, blueberries, camellias, heathers, magnolias--if you've been told to 'acidify the soil' use some ericaceous material, and everything will turn out great! It's apparently primarily a UK term, in the US, just ask for acidic compost/mulching materials.

http://www.uk.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ukgard/msg0312045225513.html

http://www.johninnes.info/ericaceous.htm

http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/invt/182518

Generally you'd expect a compost heap to be about three feet across and two or three feet high. Much smaller than that and whatever you're composting will probably not heat up into "fast compost", but will simply decompose slowly, the way leaves decompose on a forest floor.

That being said, it is perfectly legitimate to create "sheet compost" over a garden area rather than building a specific compost heap. To do that, you layer organic mulch thickly on top of whatever area you want to benefit from the compost (obviously not on top of tiny seeds or seedlings, though) and simply wait a year or more for it to break down into compost where it lies.

Paper can be composted because it comes from nature, so you can send it back to nature. Paper will decompose eventually, although I don't suggest composting it. Instead try recycling where it will be reused to make other pieces of paper. YES paper is compostable, and Yes it will decompose

No. It just makes them nervous.

Seriously, as long as it's a normal amount mixed with other material, they'll do just fine.

Yes, most definately.

Worms are the compost kings. Worms are the gods of the underworld from a scientific point of view. I add worms to all my compost piles. They increase the air flow through the piles and Ive never found an orange peel left behind. All I ever find is worm poop and worm guts.

Worms are key to compost orange peels.

Good carbon (brown) layers: paper towels, paper bags, hair, coffee grounds, straw, napkins, paper from shreddder, fall leaves, dead lawn clippings (keep to a minimum so your layers do not get anerobic), soil, etc.
Make sure you shred paper as much as possible as it will break down faster...
Good Nitorgen (green) layers: fruit and vegetable waste, green lawn clipping (again keep very thin layers and to a minimum), raw fish waste, chicken, cow or other vegetable eating animal manure, egg shells, old bread, etc.
Layer thinly alternating green and brown. Avoid Meat and cooked seafood, heavy oils ( a lightly greasy papertowel is OK) and dairy. No meat eating animal feces. give it a light water to get the magic started and viola. Also all kinds of food.No noodles should be in compost!

No one invented compost. Composting took place even before humans were on earth. Composting is the proses of decaying material that means that man did not invent it because if a tree falls in the woods it will be decomposed in about 10 years with out mans help. No one invented composting, it happens naturally.

In a worm box composting system, you do not change the bedding. You let the worms eat it. Bedding is typically a high carbon substrate such as damp newspaper or coconut husk.
You put food in the box and cover it with the damp bedding. If it stinks, or gets to wet or is overcome by gnats you may want to sift out the worms and start over.
Perhaps every 6 months you should divide out your worms, sift out the worm castings/poop (dark black fertilizer) and restart the system. DO NOT ADD BANANA PEELS to your worm bin. They always have flies in them which will contaminate your box and make it nasty. You may also want to avoid orange and apple peels.

In the garden turn you compost into the garden at least once a year. Hint- grow tomatoes right next to your compost bin! RA, "the compost Guru"

Using left over coffee grounds in your garden is an excellent way to improve the soil. Coffee used as a mulching agent offers beautiful black borders, especially against brightly-colored flowers. Coffee grounds are slightly acidic and full of nitrogen, a mineral that aids vegetable and plant growth.

brown matter would be any dried plant materials like dry leaves, straw, dry grass.

green matter would be grass clippings, kitchen scraps, vegetable and fruit peels, etc..

As a recipient of yard debris is a way in which a compost pit can be used. Yard debris typically ranges from deciduous leaf-drop to evergreen needle-casting, grass clippings, and shrub and tree prunings. It also will include outdoor furnishings which are made of wood, small-sized, and transportable.

Rain will not hurt a compost pile, unless it floods. In order for a compost pile to decompose and form compost, it is necessary to keep it from drying out. Rain will assist you in this activity.

Yes, in small amounts, but keep in mind, grass clipping may generate heat, and burst into flame.

worms compost it

while moving around and living in it with food

and its not called "Poop"

Poop is an annatractive word (even though its funny to say LOL)

but you should of put the question like this

" How dose Wastes From An Orginasim Turn Into Compost?"

use the word waste(s)

not poop lol

Yes, in small quantities. Most cat foods contain meat or fish as a primary ingredient, so if there's a lot of it in your compost, it will stink and attract nuisance animals.

Cat food is very high in nitrogen, so when you compost it, you should balance it with low-nitrogen materials like leaves or wood chips.

Yes, wood ashes are good for compost. The black chunks of charcoal and the grey ashes offer to soils and soil food web members, such as plant roots, the macro-nutrients calcium, phosphorus and potassium and the micro-nutrients boron, copper, iron, manganese and zinc. Charcoal prompts compost and soil to be porous and to retain nutrients while wood ashes in general tend to increase compost and soil pH levels because of their 25 percent make-up with calcium carbonate measuring in alkaline ranges at 7.0.

Peat adds acid. So, if you need to add acid to your soil, you want to use something with peat. We added peat to our blueberry plantings. If you don't need the acid, then get the peat-free stuff.

Peat based compost,as the name suggests, contains peat. Peat free compost does not contain peat but some other organic matter. This excercise is driven by the Green lobby who fear that the planet will run out of peat and implode.

The compostable, living material is broken down in compost bins and piles by the meeting of proper levels of air, moisture, and temperature; and to the regular turning over of the pile. Added to the proper environment is the role of microorganisms, and of macroorganismssuch as ground beetles. And there may be the introduction of composting worms. Any and all of these factors contribute to the decomposition of compostable materials into dark brown, fresh-smelling, organic matter-rich soil.

Compost biodegrades into much simplar organic substances and evenually into just dirt. I asume because all compost is organic it would break down into carbon and other element. This answer is free for improvement.

The best organic waste is green things like grass clippings and leaves.

-Super Llama

The combination of heat, light, and micro-organisms makes compostable materials heat up. Proper aeration and layering also play important roles in maintaining temperatures raised by decomposition-inducing activities of bacteria and fungi and sustained by appropriate sunlight and weather.