Most of the old-fashioned methods now actually be composted hard work and often a bit 'too slow for my tastes and purposes. The pile should be turned on again for introducing air into oxygen-poor colonies of bacteria, fungi and other organisms. Now there's an easier way, which includes almost all the basic principles of composting, but significantly improved two crucial factors: time and ventilation.
Here is my plant for the manufacture of "black gold" - completely disassembled, full, dark,Nutrient saturated, made almost entirely of weed and pathogen-free organic matter to be worked into the soil of the garden ... in 21 to 28 days without use - really!
Custody. Concrete blocks, wood, metal mesh or plates, for example - use a variety of building materials, but to save money, I have my "turn not, ventilated, 21-day" built Biotonne often recovered from pallets - truck drivers to transport equipment or materials used. Other sources for thisused - often very useful - Pallets are large retail stores, equipment suppliers, plumbing and heating, lumber yards ... and do not neglect your local landfill or transfer station. A friend or neighbor who can in large discount stores or construction to be useful as well. As interest in using recycled or recovered pallets increases, it is likely that you can pay for them. $ 5 is not an unreasonable amount of clay, the pallets are fully intact. Moremedium to full-size cars are large enough in the trunk, put one or two pallets.
Recall that rely on non-organic composting and bright sun, so you can have your secrete in a dark corner of the courtyard, behind bushes or "back in the woods," where you will not see. Put less attractive in the range floor where you want the compost heap of life. This basic or "foundation" allows air circulation (remember that the key to air circulationComposting) and prevents tree roots from creeping and feasting on the compost. You can check additional nails on the narrow strip of range "foundation" between the top surface of each sheet, leaving just enough room for air to move easily, avoiding the shredded garden waste drop. Half-inch gaps work for me. You can also place young trees sawn strips.
Subsequently, the remaining four pallets are on board with the cards closeinward and vertically (perpendicular to the ground) to form a field just outside the foundation line. Lash together with wire or synthetic rope (so they do not decay in a few weeks). I used the same two meters long plastic clothesline rope for years. Later, you palette, which forms the "front" to resolve access finished compost - so choose carefully nodes.
What is the maximum air circulation. Important for the function and success in thisI'm sure new sections of appropriate length 1-1/4 "or 1-1/2" black plastic water pipe, or PVC waste. Save more discount stores (here in Maine we call them "Marden") to sell, as the pipe for a fraction of what would become of the same material as the cost of acquiring a customer.
They have long ten or twelve feet higher than 4-1/2 lengths. Use a half inch bit '"spade" drill and a drill to accidental perforations about every four to five centimeters around to create the tube. Distance is not exactlyis important. All rights reserved - Hello?
Let's say you have all your shredded "green" and "brown" are assembled and ready for some serious action composting. I like to mix these two ingredients together, before he threw the stack. A layer of mixed material is 4 "to 6" deep'm on the basis of the new range, high efficiency and low cost, without turning the compost. Make sure that the material moisture is sufficient (it should feel like a kitchen sponge wrung out) and notPress the base layer. Put two of your ventilation tubes perforated at the top of this layer so that the cut ends protrude through the pallet side. Space, a tube about 16 "from each side so if you look at the level below the surface, it seems as if it were divided into three parts. Remember that I suggested that the boards are vertical walls in your palette. Perforated ventilation ducts can now slide discharge, the battery during the accelerated composting. If these tabs at the bottomhorizontally, would hang your elbow pipes - and perhaps also "bent" - in a short time. You can guess what it will do for the flow of air into the pile.
Now it's time for a second followed by six-inch layer of shredded material through a second set of perforated pipe at right angles to the layer in the No 1 below. Next, layer by layer, adding another set of tubes for each layer as you go until you reach the summit (and the end of the supply pipe). Remember to change the directioneach layer of perforated pipes. No need to install ventilation tubes on the top layer. But it is advisable to wear an extra 4 "or 5" layer of some coarse organic insulating materials such as pine needles or leaves whole. This insulating layer can penetrate the heat up to the top of the mixed material, and then destroy the most - if not all - of weed seeds, insect pests and weeds.
What happens next is pure simplicity and efficiency!Melt temperature immediately begins to rise between 48 and 96 hours later, he passed to between 140 ° and 160 ° (F). As bacterial decomposition process consumes oxygen from the air passing through the ventilation pipes to be restocked. As the material decomposes quickly, starts the pile settlement. In about 7-10 days, the temperature began to fall, until the end of about 3 weeks they have reached room temperature should have the outside air temperature and the mass of the stack haveare reduced to little more than half its original size.
There is a small problem, though, that must be addressed during high temperature. And so the heap - - For fresh outside air through perforated pipes, a small area of the mixture flows in the vicinity of each punch is cold enough to prevent the destruction of seeds and pathogens from the heat. To overcome this handicap is smaller than recommended for 24 hours a day (only) for 3 days in high heatPhase, the open ends of each vent pipe can be connected, resulting in high heat to penetrate the mix. At the end of this period of 24 hours, remove the plug, and the process continues, essentially unchanged for the remaining days worth of air. Stuffed-up newspaper makes a good temporary plug.
It is finished! I actually like, so that the finished product just sitting there for a week or two to stabilize. At this rate, given a sufficient supply of green and brown tones,Should be able to produce almost one square foot of finished compost every five weeks. Guess what he's doing to the health of your garden - and evaluate your success!
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