Gardening and Home Improvement

Composting is a technique of transformation of organic material. This material then turns into compost, heart of every organic garden.

In nature there are infinitely many mechanisms that allow the continuity of life on earth, acting mechanisms such as for example in the cycling of nutrients and energy.

The man sometimes unaware of their actions breaks these natural cycles reaching situations not very suitable for our environment. Through the natural process of decomposition can use composting.

What is Composting?

Processing is a technique of organic material. These changes are the result of the activity of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms that use organic substrates for energy and nutrients.

What type of waste used in composting?

Anyone organic in nature such
Kitchen waste (grass, fruit skins and vegetable waste)
Grass clippings, leaves, prunings and other yard waste.
No papers or aluminized plastic.
Animal feces (cow, horse, chicken, rabbit, goat, etc.).

What is Implementation of composting?

The most common technique is used to produce compost in piles, which are piles of waste with different compositions arranged in layers.

Size: 1.5 wide and 1.5 long. The height should be no greater than 1.80 m because the weight of the material can compress the lower layers, as a precaution to this unwanted effect can place branches at the base of the compost pile.
Land: must be in a shady, protected from the wind (there are to do rather than tree species is well suited for this role), the place must have access to water to water the pile.

Arrangement of the layers begins with a layer of material 15 cm. layer thickness after fresh material (rich in nitrogen) of equal thickness and then a lower layer of soil thickness (about 5 cm.)

Humidity: the ideal is to moisten the layers as the pile is formed over time after the humidity should be controlled, the optimum is not too wet or too dry.

Temperature, usually in the early stages of the process can result in temperature rise inside the battery, it should not exceed 70 ° C, when this happens we must remove it, ideally form one layer and re-wet the battery reversed.

Maintenance: The first day is best to remove every 15 days, but after about 30 days (depending on battery condition) and do not do it as often. If the pile is reduced too can add material on top.

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