Are you a novice gardener and don't know what to do with food and agricultural waste? A simple solution to the problem is a do-it-yourself compost heap. Start recycling not in the fall, but as you pull the weeds out of your beds and do not use parts of vegetables and fruits for food and preservation.
It's not for nothing that gardeners love compost so much. This is an organic fertilizer, which includes manure, lime and ash. Before getting to the garden, it goes through five stages of "ripening":
1. The temperature rises to seventy degrees. With such heat, not only insect pests die, but also their larvae. The seeds, by the way, die too.
2. As soon as the heat drops to thirty-five degrees, fungi are activated.
3. The heap is inhabited by earthworms, active processing of organic matter begins.
4. It turns into loose fertilizer.
5. The compost heap ceases to emit a sour smell: it is replaced by the aroma of fresh earth. However, a slight deviation from the natural aroma does not prohibit the use of a new fertilizer next season.
If you are a lover of order, thenyou can not bother with waste, but simply throw it into a special container. Try to find another way out. A DIY compost heap will do the job just fine in a wood paddock, in plastic, under fruit trees, or in your backyard.
A double film bag in which cucumbers are s alted is unlikely to withstand the winter cold, but a barrel made of polypropylene or tin is a great way out. In addition, it can be decorated to decorate a garden or vegetable garden, for example, create a miracle fly agaric by turning the old basin over and planting it on the lid of the barrel. It remains to paint the "leg", "hat", and then classify yourself as a clan of landscape designers.
How to make a compost heap and set up a "corral" for waste?
It is not at all necessary to look for planed boards on the machine. An ordinary pine slab is an excellent material with which you can protect the place where you will put waste during the summer season. A self-made compost heap will not fall apart, its contents will not be stolen by pets.
If there are sources of water for drinking at a distance of up to 25 meters, then the choice of such a site will not be in your favor. Sanitary regulations forbid processing organic fertilizers near the water you wash and eat. You don't want slurry from rotting food to get into your body, do you?
At first, the smell from the “corral” will be very specific: consider the wind rose so that neither you northe neighbors did not experience any inconvenience, inhaling not too pleasant aromas. A do-it-yourself compost pile is not a perfume factory, so try your best not to ruin your summer or your relationships with other summer residents.
Throw raw foods and heat-treated cereals, vegetables and fruits into the pit. Straw, grass, leaves, hay, branches and twigs, roots of trees and shrubs are best chopped.
Do not forget about the ashes left after you have heated the stove in the house or bath. As for furniture fragments, only those that do not have paintwork and protective materials are placed in the pit.
Fresh manure and pet excrement are not recommended, otherwise the temperature inside the pile will be close to ignition.
Careful with needles. Needle compost is not suitable for every vegetable.
