Ultimately, animals and microorganisms that turn plant material into compost need to eat the same things that you do. They need energy, most conveniently supplied by carbohydrates. In your case, this means starch and sugars from bread, potatoes, rice, and fruit. The main carbohydrate in plants is cellulose you can’t break this down, but compost microorganisms can. They also need nitrogen and phosphorus, to make proteins and other vital molecules.
Carbohydrates contain carbon, which provides energy and is the main structural element of living organisms. In practice, anything that contains plenty of nitrogen usually also has lots of phosphorus and other essential elements. A useful, shorthand way to describe compost ingredients is therefore by referring to their carbon:nitrogen, or C:N, ratio.
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It’s hard to believe just how many benefits compost provides for soil. Even when spread on the surface as a mulch, and long before it actually enters the soil, compost helps to suppress weeds, retains soil moisture in dry conditions, and protects soil from the damaging effects of wind and heavy rain.
But it’s when organic matter gets into the soil that it really starts to work its magic. Soil structure depends almost entirely on organic matter. In healthy soil, the organic humus and inert mineral particles are stuck together in tiny crumbs a fraction of an inch across. These crumbs are held together by fine fungal strands, or hyphae, and by organic glues produced by trillions of bacteria.
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Compost are coming from organic decomposing process. These organic are coming from living things, or at least used to be. It comes from dead animal and plants. The body of an adult human, if exposed to the elements, is reduced to a mere skeleton in about three weeks. The bones last longer, but not a great deal.
Humus is a mixture of the highly altered remains of the original organic matter whether from plants or animals that arrives at the soil surface, as well as new compounds made by bacteria and fungi. But only a small fraction of the original material is destined to become humus. Most simply disappears, turned back into the carbon dioxide (CO2), water, and mineral salts from which it was first made.
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Are you planning on building a garden? Then you should know that there are several type of garden. Today I’d like to share about building a rock garden. Interesting to know about it, check it out below.
There are several things you should do to build a rock garden, as below:
1. Plan Carefully.
Like others, plan is a better way to keep you focus on what you’re going to do. Always remember that the goal is to build a rock garden that look as natural as it could be. Choose one of your desire rock garden such as sloping outcrop, sloping terrace, flat bed outcrop, cliff face, pavement, or gorge.
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Building a garden, you must not forget this material, which is rock. Rock you could found anywhere, its type and variety are quite much as well, but only several of it could be use to make your garden more beautiful.
Here are some rock material that often used in home design for both outdoor and indoor, but especially for outdoor use, such as limestone, sandstone, slate, tufa, and of course Granite. Lets have a look at each of their advantages below:
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