How to Make Simple Organic Compost Easily

 

Compost can fertilize the soil so that it helps maximize plant growth.

Organic compost can be made from organic waste. Organic waste itself is waste that can still be used again, or recycled waste because it can still experience decomposition or weathering and can be decomposed properly by the help of human hands and does not cause odor. The result of this description is commonly referred to as compost .

Organic waste is basically classified into 2, namely wet organic waste and dry organic waste. Wet organic waste is organic waste with a high water content, while dry organic waste is one with less water content. Examples of wet organic waste are the remains of vegetables and fruit peels, while examples of dry organic waste are dry leaves, wood, paper or tree branches.

Household waste such as vegetable scraps, food scraps or fruit peels is wet organic waste that can be processed into compost.

Organic waste can come from agricultural, industrial, household and market waste. Everything can be processed into compost. Well, compost is needed by plants as a growing medium because it contains microbes resulting from the description of organic waste. Microbes or various living organisms in it can be the food needed by plants. Soil that has been mixed with compost will become fertile soil and is favored by a variety of plants.

The farmers and planters admitted that the presence of compost really helped their farming business. In addition to producing fertile and abundant crops, the use of organic compost also has other advantages, such as a cheap price (because it can be made yourself), helps clean the environment (because it reduces the capacity of waste scattered around the environment), and is certainly environmentally friendly. environment.

To make simple organic compost is very easy. Because it is fairly easy, so anyone can make it, including you. What is needed is organic waste, land, and containers for organic waste. There are 3 ways whose steps you can follow by reading them below:

1. Organic compost from household waste that has vacant land

• Your vacant land is first dug to a depth of 50 cm to 1 meter. If there are wells around the land, then provide a distance of about 10 m or more from the excavation site.
• Put organic waste from kitchen or household waste into the hole.
• Cover it with compost soil so it doesn't smell.
• Next, cover it with soil to the brim. Press it until the hole is completely covered.
• Leave it for 3 months. After that, you can immediately use it as a soil fertilizing medium.

The picture above is how to make compost on a large area of ​​land.

2. Organic compost from household waste with narrow land

• Provide a large container such as a drum that is not used anymore
• At the bottom of the drum surface, make small holes. These small holes will later become a place for water to seep out of the garbage.
• After that, plant the drum as deep as 10 cm from the soil surface.
• Every day put organic waste in the drum container.
• Periodically sprinkle with soil, a little sawdust, or lime.

Simple composting using a plastic drum.

• For the best quality compost, you can add animal manure.
• When it is full then cover it with soil until tightly. After that, let it sit for 3 months.
• The compost can be removed and aerated for 2 weeks.
• After that, it can be directly used as fertilizer for your plants.

3. Organic compost from household waste without using land

For those of you who don't have land at home, you can still make organic compost yourself. You do this by providing small containers such as pots, used cans, or buckets. You can immediately use these containers as pots. The method is almost the same as making compost using a drum container.

• Provide containers in the form of buckets, used cans or pots.
• Make small holes on the bottom surface of the container as a place for the water content to come out of the garbage.
• Include organic waste daily by providing a small amount of soil and sawdust.

Composting uses small containers such as pots and buckets.

• Type full, cover with soil until tightly. Leave it for 2 months.
• After the process is complete, you can immediately use these containers as planting media .

Those are some ways to make simple organic compost. Please try and apply it to fruit plants , vegetable plants or flower plants in your garden! Hope it thrives.

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