How competently to make good compost

Compost is an organic fertilizer that improves soil structure. This is the result of many insects, worms and soil bacteria. For their effective operation is necessary to ensure the optimum moisture content, temperature and composition of the compost content. To get a good compost, you need to follow certain requirements.

What do compost

This can be a special box, or just a bunch, but dig deep pits is not recommended. It (a bunch of) should not be flooded with water, the latter must follow during the rain time. Compost pile can cover everything: roofing material, slate, spunbond. Polyethylene film used is not necessary, otherwise the contents of the heap will rot. The area of ​​the pit to make 2-4 m, the height of not more than 1 m.

What is put into the compost pile

Here throw weeds without seeds, small branches (no thicker than 1 cm otherwise peregniet), dry grass (hay), sawdust, kitchen waste vegetable, egg shells, remnants of bread, nut shells and husks of sunflower seeds, windfalls from the garden, the leaves of the trees, others plant residues.

How to make

Compost pile is created in layers. For example, the put-down of the green grass weeds (its better whip), then a layer of branches and hay further purifications kitchen waste from potato, carrot, onion skins, and a little more from above the grass. And all this is filled with fertile soil. The created layer will begin processing the process contents. Then make a new layer. And so on. Each layer need to pour the ground or compost last year, if he stayed.

Due to such layers will circulate the air in the heap and the process waste and weeds will occur faster. To you crawl many worms from the garden, they will all pass through itself, increasing the nutritional value of compost. And, of course, include here a great contribution to beneficial soil bacteria.

A year later, the compost will be ready for use.

I wish you a good and fertile soil!

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