There can be no doubt that composting is a useful process for increasing the fertilising properties of different more or less inert manurial substances.
The object of compostingis to promote fermentation of the materials forming the compost, and to convert the manurial ingredients they contain into an available condition for plant needs.
The cost and trouble of the foregoing system of composting are trifling compared with its advantages.
Composting bones with ashes is a good means of securing their decomposition.
The foregoing system of composting is the best that has yet been suggested for making use of solid manures.
The same mulching might be more cheaply done with leaves, or other refuse matter, and the ammonia of the manure made available by composting with absorbents.
It would be practically impossible to fit the entire rice areas as early in the season as the nursery beds are fitted, for the green manure is not yet grown and time is required for composting or for decaying, if plowed under directly.
Besides applying canal mud directly to the fields in the ways described there are other very extensive practices of composting it with organic matter of one or another kind and of then using the compost on the fields.
In the same sense, it is important before making a heavy outlay in excavating and composting peat, to know whether (as regards nitrogen) it belongs to the poorer or richer sorts.
Some hold it indifferent whether the peat and manure are mixed, or put in layers when the composting begins.
My method of composting is as follows: I draw my muck to the barn-yard, placing the loads as near together as I can tip them from the cart.
The best plan of composting is to have a water tight trench, four inches deep and twenty inches wide, constructed in the stable floor, immediately behind the cattle, and every morning put a bushel-basketful of muck behind each animal.
During the summer of 1862, the author undertook a series of experiments with a view of ascertaining the effect of various composting materials upon peat.
The poisonous properties of vitriol-peats may be effectually corrected by composting with lime, or wood-ashes.
Potash-lye and soda-ash have been recommended for composting with muck; but, although they are no doubt highly efficacious, they are too costly for extended use.
First of all, the composting of peat with animal manures deserves attention.
I believe in sulphuric acid, with organic nitrogenous manures; the composting of meat, blood, hair, etc.
I have done a little at composting for some years, and am now having a pile of about forty cords, made up of stable-manure and earth taken from the wash of higher lands, turned and fined.
The next best, composting it with earth, as above described, piled about five or six feet high, turned as often as convenient, and kept moist enough to secure fermentation.
I have adopted this plan after having tried composting and piling the manure in the yards, and am satisfied that it is the only practical way to manage manures in this climate.
To secure satisfactory composting of stable manures in a pit it is necessary to be able to regulate the moisture of the mass.
Golueke has run comparison tests of compost starters of all sorts because, in his business, entrepreneurs are constantly attempting to sell inoculants to municipal composting operations.
After a few years of meticulous composting and restoration of soil life, Howard's oxen glowed with well-being.
The key to composting paper is to shred or grind it.
Much like a serious home bread baker, audience one seeks exacting composting recipes that might result in higher quality.
Promotional materials make composting in pre-manufactured bins seem easy, self-righteously ecological, and effortless.
Municipal composting schemes usually must process huge volumes of material on very valuable land close to cities.
For a few hours a year, composting gets you outside with a manure fork in your hand, working up a sweat.
That is why before discussing those manufactured aids tocomposting that can make a consumer of you, I want to inform you that I am a frugal person who shuns unnecessary expenditure.
The next chapter discusses the nature and properties of materials used for composting in great detail.
Composting tough materials like grape prunings, berry canes, and hedge trimmings can take a long time.
The main reason many municipal composting programs make a low-grade product with such a high C/N is the large proportion of paper used.
If the soil is moist, airy, and warm and if it already contained high levels of nutrients, and if the organic materials are not ligninous and tough and have a reasonable C/N, then sheet composting will proceed rapidly.
Garbage Can Composting Here's a large-capacity vermicomposting system for vegetableatarians and big families.
Fermentation, the result of composting or turning over a manure heap, does measurably destroy their cohesion, but not sufficiently.
After receiving a good soaking, the shed was in five more minutes replaced on the heap; and when no composting was going on, the boards were simply stowed away in some by-place until again wanted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "composting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
