Homemade Compost

Composition at home

• Make a hole in the ground, about 0.5 square meters. If the family is big, you can make two and, while one rests, you fill the other. Or make a big, 1 square meter. About 30 centimeters deep are enough. To help support the earth walls, you can place boards on the sides or a box without the bottom (like a water box, a drawer, something that supports the sides, but gives access to the floor). It also gives to make fencing an area in contact with the ground with wire fence, boards or logs.
• Place the organic material and do not separate too much. Concentrate on a corner until the space is filled. Always cover well with dry leaves or sawdust (that's the secret so the bad smell doesn't appear).
• Water from time to time it gets very hot or hit too much sun, because the mixture can get hot and dry. It is good to keep moist so that decomposition happens more quickly.
• Every 15 days, go around all the material to help aerate and facilitate decomposition.
• Soon, the food leftovers will turn into a very dark soil, with the smell of wet soil. This fertilizer is wonderful for plants and for your garden!

Compostela in apartment

One of the most famous home composition systems today is the compadre with worms. This is because it is small, has no bad odor, fits into almost any corner, such as the service area, and decomposition occurs faster with the help of these bugs. This type of composting is optimal for those who live in an apartment or who live at home and cannot make a hole in the yard, as in the method explained above. There are ready-made compost that already comes with the worms, but you can make use of it with plastic boxes or buckets.

A composition with worms needs at least three floors: the top floor, where organic waste is deposited and covered with dry material (sawdust and dry leaves) that, when full, should remain at rest for about a month. During this resting time, the middle floor turns the top floor and the cycle begins again. These two floors are where the composting of the material occurs. The floor below is the one that collects the liquid that drains (the floors are interspersed with holes for the liquid to fall and the worms to move).

At the end of these two months, the so-called resting period, the leftover material is a humus that looks like soil, super-nutritious to plants and with the smell of wet soil. None of that gives off a bad smell if everything is done correctly.

Excess moisture can facilitate the creation of mosquitoes, so it is important to cover everything very well with sawdust. In addition to worms, other small bugs appear, such as ants and other insects, which also help in the process of food decomposition. It is all clean and, following all the stages, there is no risk of contamination.

How to use the composition with worms

To use the composition you must place the food leftovers little by little. Do not scatter everything, go concentrating the organic waste in corners. Cover well with dry leaves and sawdust. Do not set aside or compress, let the mixture breathe because it needs oxygen.

Continue to place your waste until the bucket on top is full. The ideal is to take about a month to fill, so it allows time for the compost to convert and you can switch to the middle floor. When it is full, he goes to rest. Change places with what was in the middle of the pile, empty.

When that container (which was in the center and went to the top of the pile) is full, after a month or more, it will be time to change the floors again. If all went well, the container that was at rest now has humus.

To remove the humus, leave the canister with the lid open in a place with plenty of light. The worms don't like it and will get into the ground. Scrape the compost little by little, so as not to hurt and not to carry the worms.

In the fixed box below, a very dark liquid will begin to appear. It is a powerful biofertilizer. Dilute each part of the liquid in ten parts of water and use that mixture to water your seedlings once a week. They're going to be nice.

The humus can be placed on the plants, but, in the case, you can also donate, place on the condominium plants, in the plaza near the house, etc.