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Compost makes it possible to recycle waste and enrich the soil. Here are some tips for successful quality compost, “the gardener’s black gold”. Compost is the gardener's black gold. It transforms our pruning or kitchen waste into organic material to be used year-round in the garden. To achieve this, you must install a composter. There are many models on the market, but you can also make your own by assembling 4 recycled pallets.
A composter is installed in the shade, in a discreet corner of the garden but not too far from the house to go there regularly.
Then comes the time to use it and the inevitable questions:what do you put in it and how do you achieve it? The answers of Daniel Lys, author of the book My garden in the service of balanced biodiversity (published by Jouvence):“There are two main groups of materials. The first, to simplify, brings together everything that looks like grass. This concerns vegetable peelings, herbs torn from the garden, for example. In the second group, there are so-called brown materials. It can be straw, wood chips but also dead leaves picked up in the fall. The goal of composting is to marry green materials and brown materials more or less equitably, to mix them, to aerate them, to water them.”
The compost is ready for use after about 1 year. But it's worth the wait. Spread on the surface, it enriches the soil. It can also be mixed with the soil when planting. To succeed, it must be mixed regularly, aired, moistened if it is dry. If your compost does not smell good, you have probably watered it too much…. How to restore the situation? Daniel's advice:“In this specific case, this means that there is no composting but fermentation. And a fermentation results in an emission of nauseous gas. The solution is to aerate your compost and add new brown matter. Most of the time, that's enough. If you are out of brown materials, add cardboard cut into small pieces. Rebalancing will be easy.” Neither meat nor fish Warning! Compost is not a trash can. Plastic, metal, baby diapers do not throw in it. Also avoid fish and meat scraps that attract flies. You can, however, bring him coffee grounds and tea leaves.
Thanks to Daniel Lys, gardener and author of the book My garden in the service of balanced biodiversity. Ed.Jouvence. €16.90 . He also runs the blog “Gardener Mood”.
