Waste management experts report that "food waste represents nearly 15 percent of the total waste sent to landfills each year, the largest type of waste material."
Composting can not be the most glamorous of projects for the renovation, but the name of another scenario where you can improve your garden, and do something for our planet by having less waste to enter our landfill sites each week. Starting your own compost is simple and has a huge performance. The compound is essentially layers of natural materials that eventually break to produce a soil rich in nutrients. This natural fertilizer and is ideal for your garden because it restores the missing nutrients in soil damaged. As any gardener will tell you: the success of your garden depends on the quality of their lands.
First Step - How to maintain your subscription here:
With more people in the compost-making, the choices of where and how to keep your battery has increased dramatically. Today you can buy a compost bin precompiled. These devices are made of plastic and are designed to eliminate odors, and therefore away from the creatures at bay!
The models vary greatly from what they seem and what they can do. Some containers are fixed, while others, for ships that can turn a handle. Personally, I like this option because it saves on the back of the work effort to turn the compost by hand with a shovel.
You can also create your own bin, you can build an open design of wooden pallets, mesh and more. Just know this: a compost pile naked can smell and attract insects and animals. If you go this route, make sure it is outdoors and not near the window of his room. For a home composting container attached to an idea I found in my research is to become part of a giant plastic container normally used for storage. Just poke holes in the bottom and the top and you have a compost bin very simple and cheap.
Second Step - Add the food and garden waste.What not to bring:
What you should avoid putting in your compost is almost more important than what happens Certain chemicals may be toxic and therefore harmful. feces of dogs, cats, birds and are a good example. Also, avoid any green material treated with pesticides. Do not compost the others:Files oror meat or fishBone or fat,waste or catPaper or plastic laminateor diseased plants or decayingor large stems or roots (or shred them first)or treated wood
What you can put in your compost:
It must be both "brown" (carbon rich) and green (nitrogen rich) ingredients in your compost pile. Most of the items - about two thirds - the ingredients should be brown.
Brown or components are rich in carbon and leaves, pine needles, spoiled straw, straw and paper.
green ingredients are rich in nitrogen. You want to create a thin layer of green ingredients between thick layers of brown ingredients. Remember that two thirds of the pile should be brown. You can create a 5-6 cm layer of brown, covered with two inches of green, then another layer of brown, and so on. Include common elements of green grass clippings, refuse to seat (old plant stems, stalks of flowers last fall), coffee grounds, manure and kitchen waste from fruits and vegetables.
Layers is where to start (if you use a glass, the layers are not necessary. Mix only!)
one or more layers that are composed of brown substances. The key is to have good circulation to the bottom or in the fireplace, not very thick pile of pieces 1-2 inches should be enough.
The following material layers alternating between brown and green. Each layer should be 2 inches thick and a thin layer of manure can be placed between layers of green and brown. A trick of the trade, the decomposition of the material that is in large pieces before adding it to your compost pile, but it decomposes rapidly.
Step Three - Keep your compost
Or rule of thumb: the more you manage your compost pile, the faster you will be rich compound, black. management tracks that are limited to the battery (it breaks all the time, but this method can take a year or more) to convert the compound once or twice a week with a shovel in the cold outside the battery is low. This is where the compost bins to keep your rear window.
Keep the compost moist. Depending on your time, it can be easy to achieve, of course, a few seasons ago. You can check the moisture, turning the compost with a shovel - the center of the pile should not be left to dry. Depending on the weather, you may need to water your compost pile occasionally to keep it moist, put a tarp or cloth to avoid regularly.
Place the container in a location that receives lots of sun, and you need the container to warm to start working. The interior of the battery should be hot. This indicates that the decomposition of organic matter occurs. Your subscription should begin to heat up in a day or two to about 150 degrees Fahrenheit. If not, there's enough material green. Some of the compost bins come with thermometers, but you can buy one if it is not. Just paste in the center of the stack to see if the mixture is correct.
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