Beginner Gardening: Difference between humus and compost??, 0 by Dinu

Dinu wrote:
Thank you Seedfork. That explains well. The link you gave appears very informative. I read the first few paras and came to know I was not one among a few, but among the majority, who had asked that seemingly simple question.

I compost organic kitchen waste, some dry leaves and some wood ash in small pits. Two pits, just one cubic foot. Here in this picture, the black thing is pond silt I got when I removed an old water lily plant that had overgrown. I have to remove more such from the bottom - 22 inch deep pond. When the pit is full, I change the contents to the other one and that means rotation. By that time, the other pit which I empty would be done. I am storing them in plastic bags and keeping it in a barrel with a couple of holes [for pipes]. I am not using the barrel for water now. Is this okay? I collect dry leaves and put them in onion bags hung or kept away from the ground [to prevent termite attack]. When the leaves are crispy, it has to be crushed in the bag and the small bits would pass through the holes in the bag. We can add this material wherever we want.