Compost made from organic materials is an excellent fertilizer that can be used in the household to feed garden and garden plants. Let's consider the correct preparation of compost from sawdust, its advantages and disadvantages, the technology for preparing fertilizer from sawdust, what it can be prepared in, and methods of preparation. How to use the prepared mixture.
Pros and cons of sawdust compost
How to quickly turn sawdust into fertilizer?
Compost must be prepared in a certain area, which is at least 5-7 m away from the garden. This is the so-called sanitary zone.
How to compost?
You can simply store all the components in a pile on a flat area. But many vegetable growers prefer another method - composting in a large box, hole or ditch. The walls do not allow the contents to crumble, the processes inside proceed correctly and do not stop, all nutrients are preserved and are not washed out by water into the soil. In such a container, you can plant plants, for example, heat-loving ones, since over-rotted compost releases a lot of heat, which warms the roots of the plants. The temperature increase on the surface of the material can be 1-5 ˚С.
Complete rotting of sawdust in a compost heap occurs in 1, maximum 3 years; if you add bird droppings and animal manure to it, the rate of rotting will increase, and it will end in 6-10 months. If you add special biological products, the material will be ready in 3-5 months.
Methods for obtaining humus
You can make compost from sawdust of any tree species, except conifers, which are acidic. You can compost only from sawdust, but usually it consists of more than just sawdust.Manure, bird droppings, tops of garden plants, weeds, kitchen waste, fallen leaves and small twigs, and any plant debris, except those with traces of infectious diseases, are added to the mass.
Adding such ingredients makes the compost more nutritious. When preparing, you need to remember that ammonium nitrate (300-400 g per hundred square meters) or urea must be added to fresh raw materials.
Preparation procedure: pile sawdust and other components in layers, pour water to make the mass moist. In dry raw materials, the necessary enzymatic processes will not begin. Over the course of a year or more, the pile should be watered and mixed as much as possible. Such actions will allow the contents to rot evenly.
Instructions for use
Humus from sawdust can be used in the garden in different ways. Rotted ones are used as organic matter for all types of cultivated plants. It is applied in the spring, in the fall for digging and in the summer as top dressing. You can fertilize vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs, and berry gardens. If you apply it for digging, then the compost needs to be incorporated into the soil; in the summer you can simply sprinkle the mixture around the plants.
1-2 buckets of humus are added for trees and shrubs, and for vegetables and flowers - the same amount per square meter. m. With this method of application, when the compost remains on the surface, it is gradually dissolved by water during watering or during rains. Nutrients penetrate down to the roots. Mushrooms can be grown on rotted material.
Semi-rotted compost is used as mulch and insulating material when covering for the winter.It still undergoes overheating processes, so it protects plants well from freezing. Weeds do not grow under sawdust, the soil does not dry out or become compacted. Compost works as well as any other type of mulch. Fresh compost can be placed in warm beds and trenches if needed to grow plants for early production.
You can make compost from sawdust yourself. They are easy to get, for example, you can buy them at woodworking factories. The remaining components are available on any farm. All you need to prepare is a wooden box in which the fermentation will take place. The preparation period is at least 1 year, so you should start working a year before the planned use.
