{"id":1648,"date":"2018-02-28T17:34:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/?page_id=1648"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:47:38","slug":"creating-compost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/composting-resources\/creating-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oregonmetro.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2014\/05\/16\/compost_methods_food_scraps.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"206\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/IMG_5477-e1519939094858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1695 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/IMG_5477-e1519939094858-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/IMG_5477-e1519939094858-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/IMG_5477-e1519939094858-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/IMG_5477-e1519939094858-863x1150.jpg 863w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/IMG_5477-e1519939094858-81x108.jpg 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Composting is very important because of what it gives back to nature. It enables for healthy plant growth. From our research we found that composting involves: piling up scraps of organic material \u00e0 monitoring moisture and temperature \u00e0 then turning the pile to expose all edges. We also have to closely monitor the carbon: nitrogen ratio to maintain 25 \u2013 30 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon mainly comes from vegetation whereas Nitrogen is created through the little bit of animal product and environment. \u00a0In a pile you should always limit the amount of animal product because you don\u2019t want to draw rats and the pile will be sitting there for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The most important aspects to making compost would be maintaining moisture and temperature. This is done by turning the pile. This is also affected by the weather outside.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts for what you can put in the compost pile:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/compost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1796 \" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/compost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/compost.jpg 236w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/compost-88x108.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composting is very important because of what it gives back to nature. It enables for healthy plant growth. From our research we found that composting involves: piling up scraps of organic material \u00e0 monitoring moisture and temperature \u00e0 then turning the pile to expose all edges. We also have to closely monitor the carbon: nitrogen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/composting-resources\/creating-compost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating Compost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":1643,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1648\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}