PLANTING AND

HARVESTING
VEGETABLE CROPS
Here starts
the lesson!
 Compost Soil or Organic Compost

● can be bought ready-made in shops.

It can also be made at home.
Advantages of making Homemade Compost Soil

3. You know the ingredients

placed in the compost soil
1. It saves you money
and the nutrient they
offer. You can minimize the
potential of the soil.

2. It is more convenient.
4. It makes you become a
productive person equipped
with knowledge and skills
starting from the
preparation
 Compost
● is the dried animal
manure,parts of plants,
fruits, and vegetables
peelings. If these get
totally dried and mixed
with the soil, it
creates humus.
 TWO TYPES
OF
COMPOSTING T.L.E
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 Cold Composting

● is done by putting and

piling all the materials
needed in a compost
bin. Let it decompose
for months to a year or
so.
 Hot Composting
is faster to decompose. Just
combine and mix the essential
ingredients ( nitrogen, carbon,
air, and water) althoger. The
microorganisms added to the
compost will speed up the
process by eating the
materials.The pile should be
placed in full sun. Turn pile a
couple of times per week to get
things hot in there.
● Carbon-rich materials (
e.g., dry leaves, dead
flowers, shredded
newspaper, sawdust, and
finely chopped wood)
● Nitrogen-rich materials
(e.g., grass and plant
clippings, vegetable and
fruit scraps, eggshells,
and coffee grounds)
Hot Composting
● Carbon-rich materials (
e.g., dry leaves, dead
flowers, shredded
newspaper, sawdust, and
finely chopped wood)

● Nitrogen-rich materials
(e.g., grass and plant
clippings, vegetable and
fruit scraps, eggshells,
and coffee grounds)
 Hot Composting
is faster to decompose. Just
combine and mix the essential
ingredients ( nitrogen, carbon,
air, and water) althoger. The
microorganisms added to the
compost will speed up the
process by eating the
materials.The pile should be
placed in full sun. Turn pile a
couple of times per week to get
things hot in there.
 Before composting,
the following
reminders must be
observed to avoid
committing mistakes.
1. Know the right
2. Collect or gather a
materials to add in your
large quantity of
compost. Do not include
materials. The breakdown
diseased plant parts or
of compost materials
materials, weeds, house
should be in bigger
pet manure ( e.g., cats
quantities. Remember to
and dogs), animal meat
collect different varieties
scraps, treated sawdust,
of materials to make a
dairy products, and so
nutrient-rich compost soil.
forth.
 5. Provide air or
4. Maintain the oxygen in your
moisture of the compost by
compost turning the
ingredients. compost once a
week.