Arm yourself with a sufficient amount of organic fertilizer for your garden is not a problem for those experienced truckers who know how to make compost with their hands from the fact that, as the saying goes, "a hand. " By the way, self-composting in addition to the quality of the useful fertilizer is another definite plus. This way of helping to get rid of vegetable and food residues in the economy. Moreover, with maximum benefit and completely without waste.
What make the right compost
Many gardeners think that it does not matter from what and how to make compost. But this misperception. On the ingredients incorporated in kompostnik it depends how useful (!) And nutritious fertilizer is received by you, and whether it will harm your plants.
Do not forget that composting method does not have an inordinate skidyvanie in a lot of things, from which you want to get rid of.
Therefore, very erroneously called a proud word compost mountain of garbage in the country, consisting of potato leaves, twigs of trees or rhizomes of cabbage cabbages. And also, the other reluctantly decomposing or infectious frankly rubbish.
What is compost
Compost mixture consists of two kinds of components responsible for different processes in the processing of:
Nitrogenous components:
- Sloping the crop and Padalitsa.
- Food waste plant.
- Manure or litter, weeds without seeds.
They are responsible for the carbon-oxygen balance necessary for the maturation of compost from grass.
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Carbon components:
- Chips and grinded wood, including bark.
- Pruning and thin trunks.
- Straw and dry leaves, paper and cardboard residues.
Contain high amounts of fiber, however serve as food source for bacteria. Those, in turn, processed, loosen and enrich the compost mixture of essential trace elements.
Attention! To lay in the compost pile should be layers of alternating "green" wet to dry "brown" waste. Subject proportions (1: 1) nitrogenous products generated heat stimulates digestion of the compost mixture.
What can not be put in the compost
Of course, any cottagers want cleaned to get rid of piles of weed after weed tops or on which in large quantities will appear in the garden in late summer, after the start of the harvest. But the question is... Can I put in a compost all without exception? Or still have any harmful residues for composting?
It turns out that even here there are certain restrictions, and in each of them there is a reasonable explanation. So, in the right compost strongly encourage you to recycle:
- Large pieces of wood and pruning evergreen shrubs. Digestion stretched their long, hindering the entire cycle of compost maturation.
- Any of the affected plants. Pathogens and pests facile adapt to any conditions and thrive in a compost environment.
- The remnants of castor bean, lily of the valley, foxglove.
- Do not place in the compost tops Solanaceae (Tomatoes, potatoes). They contain poisons, toxic microorganisms involved in composting, thereby slowing down the entire process.
- Peel of any citrus fruit - it is not only the long decay, but also strongly discourages earthworms and bacteria.
- Food waste of animal origin, as well as feces. Decomposes it all in the compost heap are very reluctant, and smells disgusting spreads.
Important! In fact, how to make compost, and that it lay in the first step depends on the composition and the beneficial properties of the future "home-made" fertilizers.
In the next article we will tell you about the different ways of preparing high-quality and useful (!) Of compost.Subscribe to the channelNot to miss the new publication! Follow us on our new website "4 Seasons Ogorodnik". We invite everyone and all their soul! :) Welcome to our team of gardeners! We are glad to see you! :)
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