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At the compost yard, as a rule, are three piles: one in the bookmarks, the other, maturing, and the third – in the process ispolzovaniya.K it should be a path for easy movement of the trolley. Heaps are oriented in the direction from south to north, so that their side is uniformly heated by the sun. It also should be a place to store the stock earth and manure, which are added to kompost.Teper of most compost heap. What does it fold, we have discussed earlier. It is equally important to know how it stacked. All dissimilar materials must be evenly distributed in the volume of the heap. But as to mix them – it is very difficult, it was suggested to put them in layers. The layers alternate in the following order: plant remains – the thickness of 20 cm (it made of lime or dolomite to neutralize the acidity of the flour), nitrogen-rich substance, preferably manure – the thickness of 5 cm (in this layer contribute enriching additives such as phosphate, ash or potassium sulphate), then a layer of earth – 2 cm layers stack in that order until the pile reaches the desired height, then it covers the ground, and on top to protect it from drying out – straw, leaves, hay or something similar.

Dimensions – height 1,2-1,5 m, width 1,5 m, length is not limited. This table shows the optimal size, which are determined by the conditions necessary for living beings that inhabit it. When the pile is ready and shelter, it started to go so intensive processes of decomposition, it is strongly heated. The temperature inside can rise to 50-60 ° C, and then gradually decreases. As the dough, compost needs the leaven of the microorganisms. The role of such a small amount of yeast is added to the compost fertile soil or old compost. As hostess trough wraps a warm blanket, as a gardener and lovingly wraps compost heap to keep warm and wet blanket of turf, dry TPAO or foliage. Around the compost yard for shade planting hedgerows of low trees or shrubs. Compost pile should be located on cleared of sod and loosened to a depth of 15-30 cm soil. Land under the compost heap, the habitat of earthworms and other organisms involved in the composting process. This should be extremely lively land. When you take all the compost to fertilize the beds, earthworms and other organisms remain in the land and the laying of a new pile in the same place take an active part in the expansion. When freezing or drying piles earthworms go down into the ground and there outwaits unfavorable period. If the compost heap lay dead on the ground, it requires a fairly long period, so it settled down and disintegrated required fauna, without which the compost is not formed.
When you are rubbing together, we must remember that there are millions of different living organisms, and they are equally needed water and air. This means that it should not be too dense and moistened, but not too crumbly and dry. The water content of compost material should be wrung out like a sponge. When laying the pile in it at certain distances inserted into thick sticks, which are then removed, leaving in their place, the holes serving for ventilation and watering. The sidewalls do not perpendicular, but slightly inclined, so that in cross section, it looks like a trapezoid. The commitment of compost is judged by the fact that its constituent plant residues lose their natural shape and become indistinguishable in the general mass. Ripe compost is a crumbly material is a homogeneous dark-brown color with a smell of fresh earth. Usually the maturation of compost is required from one year to eighteen months. The speed depends on temperature. Summer, this process is much faster in the winter microbiological activity is almost completely damped. From habit may seem that all this is too difficult. But enough to get some experience, and you will see that the difficulty is easily overcome. But as a reward you get what gardeners call “black gold”. At such fertilizer plants grow strong, healthy and give the crop quality.