You are a beginner summer resident, and do not know where to put food and agricultural waste? A simple solution to the problem is a compost do-it-yourself heap. Start disposing of the waste not in the autumn, but as you take weeds from your beds and do not use parts of fruits and vegetables for food and for conservation.
No wonder composters are so fond of summer residents. This is an organic fertilizer that includes manure, lime and ash. Before you get to the garden, it goes through five stages of "ripening":
1. The temperature rises to seventy degrees. With such heat, not only insect pests, but also their larvae die. Seeds, by the way, die too.
2. As soon as the heat drops to thirty-five degrees, fungi are activated.
3. A bunch of earthworms inhabit , the active processing of organics begins.
4. It turns into a loose fertilizer.
5. The compost heap ceases to emit a sour smell: it is replaced by the scent of fresh earth. However, a slight deviation from the natural aroma does not prohibit the use of new fertilizer in the next season.
If you are a lover of order, then you can not bother with waste, but simply throw it in a special container. Try to find another way. A compost heap, created with his own hands, will perfectly fulfill his duties in a wooden paddock, in polyethylene, under fruit trees or in the backyard.
A double film bag in which cucumbers are salted is unlikely to withstand the winter cold, but a barrel of polypropylene or tin is a great way out. In addition, it can be decorated to decorate a garden or kitchen garden, for example, to create a miraculous fly agaric by turning an old basin and placing it on the lid of a barrel. It remains to paint the "leg", "hat", and then reckon yourself with the clan of landscape designers.
How to make a compost heap and set up a “pen” for waste?
It is not at all necessary to look for boards that are planed on the machine. An ordinary croaker from a pine is a wonderful material with which you can protect a place where you will store waste during the summer season. A compost heap, created with his own hands, will not fall apart, its contents will not be pulled away by pets.
If at a distance of up to 25 meters there are sources of water for drinking, then the choice of such a site will not be in your favor. Sanitary regulations prohibit the processing of organic fertilizers in the vicinity of the water that you wash and eat. You do not want the sludge from decaying products to enter your body?
At first, the smell from the “corral” will be very specific: take into account the wind rose so that neither you nor the neighbors feel any inconvenience, breathing in not too pleasant aromas. Do-it-yourself compost pile is not a perfume factory, so try to do everything possible so as not to spoil either the summer or relations with other summer residents.
Throw raw foods and heat-treated cereals, vegetables and fruits into the pit. It is better to chop straw, grass, leaves, hay, branches and twigs, the roots of trees and shrubs.
Do not forget about the ash remaining after you have melted the stove in the house or bathhouse. As for the fragments of furniture, only those on which there are no paints and protective materials are put in the pit.
Fresh manure and excrement of pets is not recommended, otherwise the temperature inside the heap will be close to fire.
Caution with needles. Compost from needles is not suitable for any vegetable.