7 0 COMPOST – 7.17 - GOOD TIME TO START A COMPOST PILE

ORGANIC FARMING COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

7 0 COMPOST – 7.17 - GOOD TIME TO START A COMPOST PILE

Now after the harvest it’s a good time to start your Compost Pile if you haven't started one yet. For best results, you will want to use a mixture of ingredients. The right balance is something learned by experience, but it's best to always use equal amounts by volume of Greens and Browns and layer them. (SEE LISTS BELOW).

Some things, like grass mowing and weeds, rot quickly. They work as 'activators', getting the composting started. Older and tougher plant material is slower to rot, but gives body to it, and usually will make up the bulk of your compost heap.

COMPOST MATERIALS

"GREENS" or nitrogen rich ingredients

Urine (dilute it with water)

Grass cuttings

Raw vegetable peelings from your kitchen

Tea bags and leaves, coffee grounds

Young green weed growth... avoid weeds with seeds

Green Tree Pruning’s

Animal manure from --rabbits, goats, cows, horses, chickens

 

"BROWNS" or carbon rich ingredients - slow to rot

Cardboard

Wastepaper and junk mail

Pet Bedding materials

Hedge clippings

Old plants

Wood shavings

Fallen leaves

Wood ash

Crushed Egg Shells

You can gather enough material to fill your compost container or pile, at one time, or you can add to it as you get material. Make sure you have a mixture of soft and tough materials. You can chop up tough items using shears and chop up leaves with a shredder--if you have one.

Mix ingredients together as much as possible before adding to your compost bin. I like to do a layering process, with one layer of "Brown" items; such as the fallen leaves on the ground and cardboard from old shipping boxes, and then I add a "Green" layer on top of that; with our rabbit poop/pee and left over veggies and tea bags. Then you do another layer of each until you fill your bin, or if you are just doing a compost heap in your yard---until you get it up to about 36 inches high. Water your Compost Bin or Compost Heap as you go.

Within a few days, the heap is likely to get hot to the touch. When it begins to cool down, or a week or two has passed, turn the heap. Add water if it is dry, or dry material if it is soggy. The heap should heat up again; the new supply of air you have mixed in allows the fast acting microbes to continue with their work. You can continue to stir your compost bin or heap every couple weeks, but the heating will be less and less. When it no longer heats up again, leave it undisturbed to finish composting.

When your Composting materials in your bin or your Composting heap in yard have turned into a dark brown, earthy smelling material, the composting process is complete. It is always best to start in the Fall, but you can start late Winter/Early Spring.

 

KOZI YA KILIMO HAI KILIMO-UCHUMI

7 0 MBOLEA - 7.17 - WAKATI MWEMA WA KUANZA LUNDIKO LA MBOlea

Sasa baada ya kuvuna ni wakati mzuri wa kuanza Rundo lako la Mbolea ikiwa bado haujaanza. Kwa matokeo bora, utahitaji kutumia mchanganyiko wa viungo. Usawa sahihi ni kitu ambacho umejifunza kutokana na uzoefu, lakini ni vyema kutumia kiasi sawa kila wakati kwa wingi wa Kijani na Browns na kuziweka katika safu. (TAZAMA ORODHA HAPA CHINI).

Baadhi ya vitu, kama vile kukata nyasi na magugu, huoza haraka. Wanafanya kazi kama 'vianzishaji', ili kuanza kutengeneza mboji. Nyenzo kuu ya mimea iliyozeeka na ngumu huchelewa kuoza, lakini huipa mwili, na kwa kawaida itaunda sehemu kubwa ya lundo lako la mboji.

NYENZO ZA MBOJI

"KIJANI" au viungo vyenye nitrojeni

Mkojo (punguza kwa maji)

Vipandikizi vya nyasi

Maganda mbichi ya mboga kutoka jikoni yako

Mifuko ya chai na majani, misingi ya kahawa

Ukuaji mchanga wa magugu ya kijani... epuka magugu yenye mbegu

Kupogoa kwa Miti ya Kijani

Mbolea ya wanyama kutoka --sungura, mbuzi, ng'ombe, farasi, kuku

 

"BROWNS" au viungo vyenye kaboni - polepole kuoza

Kadibodi

Barua taka na barua taka

Nyenzo za kitanda cha wanyama

Vipandikizi vya ua

Mimea ya zamani

Kunyoa kuni

Majani yaliyoanguka

Majivu ya kuni

Maganda ya Mayai yaliyosagwa

 

Unaweza kukusanya nyenzo za kutosha kujaza chombo chako cha mboji au rundo, kwa wakati mmoja, au unaweza kuongeza kwake unapopata nyenzo. Hakikisha una mchanganyiko wa nyenzo laini na ngumu. Unaweza kukata vitu vikali kwa kutumia shears na kukata majani kwa kisulilia - ikiwa unayo.

Changanya viungo pamoja kadri uwezavyo kabla ya kuongeza kwenye pipa lako la mboji. Ninapenda kufanya mchakato wa kuweka safu, na safu moja ya vitu vya "Brown"; kama vile majani yaliyoanguka chini na kadibodi kutoka kwa masanduku ya zamani ya usafirishaji, na kisha ninaongeza safu ya "Kijani" juu yake; na kinyesi chetu cha sungura na kuacha mboga na mifuko ya chai. Kisha unafanya safu nyingine ya kila moja hadi ujaze pipa lako, au ikiwa unafanya lundo la mboji kwenye yadi yako---mpaka uifikishe hadi inchi 36 hivi kwenda juu. Mwagilia Bin yako ya Mbolea au Lundo la Mbolea unapoenda.

Ndani ya siku chache, lundo linaweza kupata moto kwa kuguswa. Inapoanza kupoa, au wiki moja au mbili zimepita, geuza lundo. Ongeza maji ikiwa ni kavu, au nyenzo kavu ikiwa imelowa. Lundo linapaswa joto tena; usambazaji mpya wa hewa uliochanganya huruhusu vijidudu vinavyofanya kazi haraka kuendelea na kazi yao. Unaweza kuendelea kukoroga pipa lako la mboji au lundo kila baada ya wiki kadhaa, lakini hali ya kuongeza joto itakuwa kidogo na kidogo. Isipopata joto tena, iache bila usumbufu ili kumaliza kutengeneza mboji.

Wakati Nyenzo zako za Kuweka mboji kwenye pipa lako au lundo lako la Mbolea kwenye yadi zimegeuka kuwa hudhurungi iliyokoza, yenye harufu ya udongo, mchakato wa kutengeneza mboji umekamilika. Daima ni bora kuanza katika Anguko, lakini unaweza kuanza mwishoni mwa Majira ya baridi / Mapema Spring.

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