Vacationers often find that making compost is easy: Just add up the waste in a pile, cover and wait for the contents peregniet. But not all waste can be sent to a fertilizer. Ways of composting many site owners themselves choose the appropriate option.
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What you can and can not put in the compost?
If the compost is prepared correctly, after making improves soil structure. Its improved fertility, increased crop yields.
The compost heap is allowed to add the following:
- grass from the lawn mown or pulled out weeds from the beds;
- leaves fallen from the trees;
- tea leaves and coffee residues;
- twigs of trees;
- leftover vegetables and fruits;
- shell left over from the raw eggs;
- peat;
- bird droppings;
- feathers;
- manure;
- natural tissue grafts;
- sawdust, peel the seeds, straw.
Summer residents are often asked whether it is necessary to throw in the compost heap windfalls of apples. This can be done. The temperature within the compost heap is at +60 ° C, for this reason, all fungi are killed parasites.
It is not necessary to put in a bunch of the infected plants, laid a thick planks, branches, pine and other evergreen trees. They rot for a long time, will have to wait long for compost maturation.
Dry leaves rot much longer, so it is better not to lay down in the compost, and in the black bag made of polyethylene. It pre-made holes, then the air will flow in.
It is not necessary to lay a bunch of upper portions of the weeds with which has not yet crumbled seeds. The same applies to the rhizomes of perennial plants.
Long rot or decay following materials:
- all kinds of plastic and plastic products;
- glass;
- plastics;
- bones;
- feces of animals and humans;
- fat.
No need to put in the compost box potato and tomato tops and citrus peel. Plant contains substances that slow down the process of decay, and citrus peel negative effect on earthworms.
When is it best to make compost?
Prepare compost on the site at any time, the waste stack in a drawer or in a pile. The easiest way to lay the plant and waste layers, good watering after each introduction of a new portion. On top of the compost pit sprinkled with soil, it prevents drying of the contents.
Remains rot for 6-9 months. For a more rapid maturation of compost you have to make any special additives, such as Baikal M1 or the other drug.
Care should be taken to ensure that waste is wet. If dry material, it does not decompose. And too soaked waste become compressed, so the contents of the compost pit rot bad. In the heat of a bunch of watered, and in rainy weather the contents shovel or fork lift.
It is necessary to monitor the temperature in the pit. If it is higher than + 60 ° C, the microorganisms are killed. To cool the heap watered, fork or pierce layers were stirred.
For putrefaction process needed air flow, so 1 time in 2 weeks the contents of the move, sweeping from the edges to the center. To waste rot faster, flip the contents in the well should be regularly.
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