The invention relates to a method adopting an 
ammonia carboxy chelating agent and 
festuca arundinacea to restore 
compost matrix 
heavy metals, which comprises adding 20g of prepared 
compost in each culture dish with the 
diameter to be 6cm, and adding the 
ammonia carboxy chelating agent with the concentration of 5-20mmol / kg<-1> into 
compost matrix; then selecting full 
festuca arundinacea seeds, enabling the number of the seeds in each dish to be 50; placing the culture dishes where the seeds are sown in a laboratory to germinate the seeds, watering the seeds for one time respectively in the 
morning and in the 
evening each day, often exchanging positions of the culture dishes to guarantee conformity of illumination, enabling the illumination strength during the culture period to be 350-800 mu mol / m<-2>s<-1>, enabling the temperature in the laboratory to be 16 DEG C to 24 DEG C, and enabling the 
relative humidity to be 38-55%; and adopting a TAS-990 atomic absorption spectrophotometer to determine content of various 
heavy metals. According to experimental results, on the upper portion of the 
festuca arundinacea, Cr is concentrated maximally when the concentration of the 
ammonia carboxy chelating agent is 10 mmol / kg<-1>, Cd, Cu and Zn are concentrated maximally when the concentration of the ammonia carboxy chelating agent is 15 mmol / kg<-1>, and Pb is concentrated maximally when the concentration of the ammonia carboxy chelating agent is 20 mmol / kg<-1>. Accordingly, the concentration of 
nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) should be changed in selection according to differences of different plants in concentrating the 
heavy metals.