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Definition of Compost heap
1. Noun. A heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compost Heap
Literary usage of Compost heap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"The important part of the cultivation of greenhouse crops takes place in the
compost heap. The work of fining the soil and of liberating plant food is ..."
2. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"The compost heap, which is really an imperfectly constructed niter-bed, ...
There is an important difference, however, between the compost heap and the ..."
3. Vegetable Gardening by Samuel Bowdlear Green (1915)
"The compost heap can be made a prolific source of homemade manure. Every farm
and garden should have one of sufficiently large proportion to take care of ..."
4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1857)
"In the barn-yard, or in the compost heap, with or without lime? ... They may also
be used in a compost heap, but we prefer turf for tbe latter ..."
5. The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"Again, as a matter of cleanness and convenience, this compost heap is of great
... The compost heap receives all these otherwise use. less accumulation«, ..."
6. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"The poem on a compost heap may or may not be a poem, but the bare fact that a
man has been born in the world at last who can write a poem on a compost heap, ..."
7. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"The poem on a compost heap may or may not be a poem, but the bare fact that a
man has been born in the world at last who can write a poem on a compost heap, ..."
8. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1861)
"We have already given muck a very prominent place in the compost heap ; its value
can not be over-estimated. There are some soils, especially at the west, ..."
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