Cereal rye roots grow to 6 feet deep.
Composting in nature occurs in at least 3 ways:
- It occurs in the form of manures, which are plant and
animal foods composted inside an animal’s body
(including earthworms) and then further aged outside
the animal by the heat of fermentation. Earthworms are
especially good composters. Their castings are 5 times
richer in nitrogen, 2 times richer in exchangeable
calcium, 7 times richer in available phosphorus, and 11