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Factors that make compost good

Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

How to examine compost quality: moisture, air, mix, piece size, warmth and heap size, and time - and how to tell ready compost from a sour or dry failure.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Composting techniques
  2. Why Kenyan farms compost
  3. Materials for Kenyan compost
  4. What not to compost
  5. Factors that make compost good
  6. The heap method
  7. The pit method
  8. Vermicomposting
  9. Bin, sack and bokashi composting
  10. Using compost to improve soil