compost pit

The moving sun had gone behind a mountain and the compost pit shell was in shadow once more.

I'll bet they intended the four of us to escape from that compost pit thing so we could tell about it!

The idea is that everyone who tends to the garden contributes to the compost pit, which in turn benefits the plants.

He'd heard it in the compost pit shell, when he was a prisoner of the invaders from space.

It's the shell of a compost pit for the hotel that's goin' to be built around here.

Archaeological finds show a multitude of composting pits and irrigation system.

The cover of the compost pit shell lifted.

Hurriedly, the conspirators disappeared into the shadowy depths beyond the compost pit.

This makes it well suited to compost pits high in fibrous materials commonly known as browns.

Khan realized he could not consign such beauty to the compost pit, despite the colony's need for fresh fertilizer.

When Mrs. Louchheim wanted to dig a compost pit on it, she needed permission.

The box, then, rested on top of the ground, which was perfectly natural for a compost pit shell not yet placed where it would finally belong.

There would naturally be a fastening on the cover of a compost pit to keep bears from getting at the garbage it was built to contain.

The campus is environmentally friendly, with compost pits, central water conservation system, interior and exterior gardens, and a tree conservation mechanism.

He held a rag over his mouth and nostrils as he spoke, due to the nauseating stench coming from the compost pit a few meters away.

Walking from his now flourishing pumpkin fields to his huge composting pit, dressed in a Coca-Cola T-shirt and cowboy hat, Santos Espinoza speaks earnestly.

During an open day at the Penwithick Community Allotment, residents pitched in to create the communal garden, in which a raised circular bed is built around a central compost pit.

They were very much like the squeaks his captors had directed at each other and at him when he was blindfolded and being led downhill to imprisonment in the compost pit shell.

In his own mind, though, there was the fact that of the two workmen who'd been paralyzed and released, the three men in the compost pit shell, and himself, none had seen their captors.

He used a broken sapling, and as he worked he told what had happened, including the three men in the compost pit shell and the dumping of assorted small wild life specimens into it with them.

On the first she emptied the copper vessel she had been using as a chamber-pot into her father's compost pit, then washed it out with lye and hot water, and hung it back on its hook.

A relatively recent addition to the site was the construction of a naturally composting pit toilet with a magnificent view down the Macalister River Valley and across the tops of nearby snowgums and mountain ridges.

Nepalese are taught in Saturday morning sessions how to make a compost pit by digging holes in the ground two and a half feet deep and filling them with layers of ash, farmyard manure, mustard oil cake and soil.

One type consists of stone-lined pits 5 to 8 feet in diameter and up to 4 feet deep that were used as composting pits in which to grow crops, and possibly also as vegetable fermentation pits.

In particular E. Foetida (the stinking dungworm or brandling) multiplies rapidly in a dungheap or compost pit and plays an important part in breaking down the cellulose once the temperature has dropped to about 32 C.