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How to cook a good compost
Good compost should be friable fine lumpy or granular structure. To achieve this result, you need to properly lay the material for digestion. This may be a compost pile or pit. Benefits of Composting in piles is that in such an arrangement of organic waste, the conditions for airing. With good access to air bacteria and fungi are more active, their metabolic products are oxidized and transformed into humus state. In the pit aeration is difficult, so the oxidation process will be slower.
The second condition will correct the inception of organics for composting. The base layer must be placed more stringent plant residues (trimmed branches and shoots of raspberry etc.) that rot slowly. Their presence is necessary that the conditions for drainage. As compost activator, which will serve as the source of microorganisms, it is possible to use already matured manure or compost. This material is laid on the drainage layer. Placed on top of the crop is intended for composting. It can be 1-2 times peresloit rotted organic matter. Then the compost mass is covered with a small layer of soil.
Future compost is well moistened. To save a bunch of moisture needed to cover. As the covering material can be used polyethylene film, but it violates the aeration mode, so it is best to take a spunbond, rags or straw.
To the composting process took more active, you need to constantly monitor the moisture content of the mass. When desiccation moistened with warm water.
The organic waste to compost future can lay in special containers, the side walls of which are made of air penetration holes. It is not necessary to take the container volume, the most suitable dimensions for it - 1,5 × 2 m, depth -. 1-1.2 m Such containers can be made in different ways. The most cost-effective and less time-consuming - is the use of coarse-mesh stretched over 4 support. Drainage in the compost containers made of planks placed on the bricks can be laid on top of a layer of large mesh or plant debris, and then spread the compost mass.
It is important to choose the right place for composting. Maturation of compost takes time, so the compost pile is placed in a not particularly sought-after areas of the yard, where there are no large trees nearby. Their roots will feel penetrating into the soil nutrient and moisture from kompostnika pull from it the nutrients. To prevent moisture retained longer need to find a place protected from wind and direct sunlight.
The optimal conditions for composting temperature is + 25... + 35 ° C and humidity of 50-70%. Overhumidification undesirable moisture material should be such as that wrung cloth or sponge. Watering the compost pile is permitted only with warm water, so as not to cause stress in microorganisms. It is possible to run the earthworms that are active soil formers.
It should be remembered that the temperature over 60 ° C causes the death of the inhabitants of the soil, so if there is a risk of such a situation, the compost mass should be cooled shoveling. This procedure contributes to an additional airing.
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