Compost is the best and cheap fertilizer for a garden. Skilled summer residents perfectly know that the fallen-down foliage, the mowed grass, the food remains, a tops of vegetable of plants, etc. can serve as excellent material for compost in which collect a set useful to fertilizer of the soil and future harvest of elements.
However there is a question how to make a compost pit that it did not disturb, did not spoil a view of your site and well fitted into design of your garden.
How to make a compost pit with own hands?
- Before starting the device of a compost pit, you need to decide where it will be located. So, it is necessary to consider:
- Distance from a source of drinking water. Not to litter a well, the compost pit has to be not less than in 25 meters from it. Also consider a site bias, if the hole is located above, than the well, is also risk of contamination of drinking water.
- Convenient access. The hole has to be located so that you without difficulties could take out or out compost.
- Weeds should not get to compost.
- A hole it is not necessary to have under direct sunshine.
Now let's understand as it is correct to make a compost pit. There are many options, will consider the main:
- Compost pit of open type. If you do the simplest hole, without concreting a bottom, then its depth has to be no more half a meter, length and width on your discretion. It can be just a hole where you will bring waste and also it is possible to establish around this hole wooden sides (it can be ready wooden boards, sheets of plywood, etc.), such option of a hole will be accurater.
- Compost pit of the closed type. Such hole assumes existence of a cover which can be closed and opened easily. The most optimum height of a hole is one meter. That future design served for many years, it is necessary to concrete a hole bottom. For this purpose remove a top soil, prepare solution from cement, sand and crushed stone and flood the prepared platform. On corners of this platform drive pipes or bars to which walls will fasten further. Several days should be waited so far the platform will dry up. Now it is necessary to make sidewalls, they can be wooden, iron, brick, etc., usually gardeners prefer to use more available material, i.e. a tree. Prepare boards, make them necessary length, then by means of nails or self-tapping screws attach them to bars which you drove on corners of the concrete platform. It is desirable to sheathe an internal surface linoleum or dense polyethylene that boards contacted to compost less. The usual sheet of plywood which can be put on loops can replace a cover, for convenience to it it is possible to attach the handle. Keep in mind, in a cover there have to be cracks for air access.
Those whom interests as it is correct to make a compost pit at the dacha should consider still some moments:
- That process of composting took place more intensively periodically it is necessary to add special medicines and fertilizers to a hole. If you do not awake it to do, then natural process of rotting will take quite long time. By the way, do not forget to mix compost periodically.
- In a hole it is possible to put a grass, vegetables and fruit, ashes, roots of plants, sawdust, manure, bark, etc. all this will turn into excellent fertilizer for your future harvest over time.
- It is impossible to put in a bone hole, synthetic waste, a tops of vegetable tomato, potatoes, the infected plants, seeds of weeds, etc.