Hello Eco-friendly Steemians!

This week I continue with the theme of homemade compost since my previous post has aroused the curiosity and comments of many and raised some doubts.

Today I come to present the way I carry out composting at home. Since then I am an apprentice myself and therefore a lot of what I do are small experiments, at my pace, to test what works best and what works less well.

That said, let's move on to the subject of composting again ...

What is composting?

Composting is the biological process of valorizing organic matter, whether urban, domestic, industrial, agricultural or forestry, and can be considered as a type of recycling of organic waste. It is a natural process in which micro-organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, are responsible for the degradation of organic matter, transforming it into humus, a material very rich in nutrients and fertile.

Put another way, composting is a method to recycle certain types of household waste (and not only), transforming it into rich and fertile material for the plants here at home.

How do I make my compost at home?

As I also mentioned in my last post, I compost in the pots where I will put the plants later.
If you have questions about the "ingredients" for the compound, I speak of the desirable and the undesirable here.

Thus, we come to our practical example:

As one of the principles of this series is to be eco-friendly and with a DIY spirit, for example I will take a container of Delta Ruby coffee beans, since for me they are easy to buy because I can get them in my workplace . You use a vessel you have available, or a container that can also be made into an improvised vessel.

Then cut the top:

Then I make a hole for the slurry (liquids that can result in the compounding process) and later the excess water can come out of the vessel when watering. This slurry can and should be harnessed to fertilize our plants later, always diluted in water.

With the container ready for action, I go out in search of waste for my compost.
First I add a few small branches and branches of the garden plants from my neighborhood. Besides being an interesting brown material for my compound, they also work with a small base that allows the passage of the fluids and their flow as previously mentioned.

Then proceed to the placement of indicated residues for the compound.

In this particular case, I used the wastes I had available: vegetable remnants from the kitchen, eggshells and teabags that I ripped and deposited into the container.

To conclude, and because this was a concern they demonstrated in the comments of the previous post, I closed the container with the lid I had cut before. They can also use a tarpaulin, an even a board or a dish for the purpose, preventing parasites from lodging in your compost. Still to finish, I decided to put my new container, which later became a vase, on a small plastic plate (a dish of those where the pizzas that are bought in the supermarket come, remember that this is to be economic and ecological! : D) to take advantage of the slurry to speak before and so do not soil the floor.

From here you continue to accumulate waste until you have an amount that fills 2/3 of the container. It is advisable to stir and wrap the compost a few times over the approximate 6 months it will take the composting process to aerate the compost bringing oxygen to all microorganisms. When the process is finished, I recommend completing the pot with substrate or soil, wrapping again et voilá! Your vase is ready to receive one of your beloved plants!

To improve the aesthetics of my small garden, and assuming that this is a project that still has a lot to progress, I chose to cover my vases with sand that I collect on the beach. I do not know if this can have beneficial or harmful consequences for my plants. I put just a little bit on the last layer of soil or substrate to give a more zen garden air to the pots.

Concluding

1. Composting is a process of utilizing and transforming some household organic waste into compost, a material with excellent nutritional qualities for plants.

2. Since the purpose of this series is to seek to harvest vegetables and fruits at home with as little monetary investment as possible, many of the materials used go through the reuse of "garbage", a philosophy in which the production of our own compound is based on the fact that neither a glove .

3. Composting comprises a number of materials which are desirable as well as others which are not recommended to ensure not only the quality of the resulting compound as well as the safety of the process in the domestic environment.

4. Having said all this, and complying with what is recommended, home composting is not only feasible as well as desirable, as long as the conditions for it are created. In the background it has just been an interesting process of recycling waste into other again usable materials. And this with almost "zero" work!

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