Question

(h) What is compost? How can it be made?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Compost is decomposed organic material, such as leaves, grass clippings, and kitchen waste. It provides many essential nutrients for plant growth and therefore is often used as fertilizer.

The most common raw materials used to make compost are yard wastes such as grass clippings, leaves, weeds, and small prunings from shrubs and trees. Most home garden compost piles and municipal compost facilities use yard wastes exclusively because of the large volume of materials available..

Because of their size, produce scraps such as apple cores, peach pits and corn husks can be slow to break down, so chopping them up into small pieces will help aid fast composting.