Complete Simple Compost Making Method

Compost fertilizer is an organic fertilizer that is used for organic fertilizer method, for agricultural entrepreneurs who develop the plant with organic system of this fertilizer is supporting the nutritional needs of the plant, there are some people prefer to buy a fertilizer so instead of making their own, basically making compost fertilizer is not as difficult as we imagine but if it never tried it is quite difficult.

Compost fertilizer is made by utilizing organic waste such as food waste, vegetable waste, fruits and others, composting process takes place aerobically that involves oxygen and anerobic or without using oxygen in the process. The process of decomposition or decomposition is what makes it called as compost.

In the process of making compost is actually not much different from the process of humus formation in nature but there are some additional methods whose function is to help the formation of compost fertilizer so that the process of compost fertilizer formation is shorter if possible in the nature takes up months but by making compost alone can produce within a period of just 2 weeks.

Some natural materials that can be utilized as a compost fertilizer are as follows:

Compost fertilizer from dry waste - which includes dry waste include: dry leaves, dried grass, sawdust, rice husk, paper waste, corn husk, straw (rice stalk), and vegetable stalks.

Compost fertilizer from brown waste material physical properties are dry, rough, fibrous and brown. Generally contains a high carbon C element, so it is well applied to the plant to quickly bear fruit.

Compost from green garbage - Green garbage here can consist of: vegetables, fruits, grass cuts, fresh leaves, household waste, tea and coffee powder, eggshells, manure (poultry dung like chickens, ducks, cows and goats). For easy compost manure of this type of raw materials still have water content.

Compost fertilizer from green waste is rich in Nitrogen (N) elements that microbes need to grow and develop. Both applied to plants that are in the period of branch and leaf growth.

Ways of making

Above already mentioned there are two types of raw materials of compost fertilizer: brown waste and green garbage. For the process of making and effective yield in compost fertilizer the comparison of use between brown waste with green garbage = 3: 1. Because, if you only use brown waste only then the process of making compost will take a long time.

When you collect waste / household waste for raw material of compost fertilizer the things you need to separate are:

- meat, fish bone, shrimp shell, chicken bone, milk, cheese, and fat / oil. This needs to be done to avoid the emergence of insects such as flies that will cause the appearance of maggots in the composting process.

- dog poop and cat feces. this thing can bring disease.

- weed or pest-infested weeds will still be contained in the compost.

Utilization of household waste for compost fertilizer

Here's how to make a simple compost step by step:

1. The first step to prepare raw materials and equipment.

Raw materials: household waste that you have sorted, brown waste, green garbage, soil.

Tool: Large plastic tub or drum, gunny sack, paving block.

Added ingredients: EM4

2. Second step mix one part green garbage with one piece of brown waste into a tub or a large plastic drum beneath which has been covered with soil and given a hole as a way of removing excess water.

3. Next add a layer of soil at the top and let the active microbes in the soil work to process waste into compost.

4. Repeat the second and third processes for the next layer until the waste materials and the soil run out. Then cover the drum with a burlap sack.

5. After one week, open and stir the compost, then close again and do the process once a week.

6. To speed up the composting process, you can add bio-activator in the form of effective microorganism (EM4) solution that you can buy at the farm shop.

7. After approximately 1 month, check the final compost. If the mixture of fertilizer is blackish and does not smell of garbage anymore, means that the composting process has been completed and there is no problem.

8. The final step is to separate the rough part with the sieve, take the smooth one. Rough compost fertilizer can be mixed back into the composting tub as activator.

Problems and Solutions

- Problem: Insects and maggots appear in the process of making compost

Cause: There are ingredients such as garbage meat, fish, milk, fat and coconut milk in their raw materials. Or the garbage is not closed.

Solution: cover the compost with a layer of soil or other compost or preferably the material is not in compost.

- Problem: Rotten odor (ammonia)

Cause: too many nitrogen elements / amount of green waste too much

Solution: add brown waste and open sacks to add oxygen.

- Problem: Rotten odor (rancid, rotten eggs)

Cause: less oxygen / too moist

Solution: add brown waste and open sacks to add oxygen, stir the compost until the odor is gone.

- Problem: fertilizer attached

Cause: too moist

Solution: add brown waste, open sacks to add oxygen and compost back and forth until the smell is less delicious.

- Problem: compost is too dry

Cause: lack of water

Solution: wet with water and tossed and turned even wet.

- Problem: no reaction / change

Cause: nitrogen is too low, low oxygen, less moist

Solution: add green garbage to increase the nitrogen content, compost back and forth to increase air or oxygen.

Thus a brief summary Method of making simple compost fertilizer hopefully can be practiced and utilized to develop organic farming in your location all.

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