Compost: Your Elaboration

1. What is compost?

Compost exists since there is life on Earth, anything live to die if left in the ground will rot in aerobic way (with the presence of oxygen). More effective agents of decomposition are bacteria and other microorganisms. Already at a macroscopic level are the worms of the Earth, ants, snails, slugs, millipedes, Woodlice, etc. who consume and degrade organic matter.

The compost is used as fertilizer for the soil in agriculture and gardening; and helping to control the erosion, as coatings and recovery of soils in landscaping.

Composting is an activity that requires some effort when it comes to emptying our composter, but it is gratifying seeing your garden’s soil improvement. It is an ecological activity because you recycle part of the waste produced in our homes. Furthermore, you make the most of your wastes possibilities, that otherwise would go to less sustainable wastelandfills, incinerators, etc., means little sustainable waste valorisation.

Kiwi, Kiwifruit

Name: Kiwifruit, Kiwi, Actinidia

Latin name: Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa.

Foliage:  Deciduous

Mature height: this healthy woody bot can reach 29,53ft. length, gives the Kiwi fruit, and reaches shrub appearance using stakes and guiding systems for the fruit production.

Description: it is a climbing plant native from the Himalayan foothills, in the south of China, introduced in New Zealand in 1904 and since then, cultivated in many temperate regions for its edible fruit.

Plum Tree

Name: Plum Tree

Latin name: Prunus domestica

Foliage:  Deciduous

Mature height: This tree can reach 32,8ft (10m) hight. The top is opened and irregular.

Description: The term "Prunus" comes from latin and is the name of the generus, the word "domestic" refers to native from a place. It is a fruit of the Rosaceae family tree, is native to Europe and Asia, sowing for more than two thousand years in the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, specifically in the Caucasus, Anatolia, and Persia.

The trunk is straight and narrow, and the skin is smooth and brown. The young shoots are green and pubescent; the old branches on the other hand, are smooth and brown, sometimes spiny.

The leaves are oval and serrated.

The flowers appear before the leaves, as green brownish and arise in small groups. Its fruit is the plum, round or elongated, of yellow, red, purple or green colors.