Most often gardeners and truck farmers use sawdust as mulch and insulation for certain plants for the winter. And not everyone knows how to use sawdust as a fertilizer. With proper processing, sawdust can become an excellent fertilizing for plants, or more precisely - the basis for a nutritious organic complex.
The most common mistake is to use pure sawdust as a fertilizer. Doing this categorically can not, because in this case, the waste of the woodworking industry not only does not become useful, but also impoverish the soil.
How to make a sawdust fertilizer?
If the raw and unprocessed form of sawdust is not suitable, then how to apply them as a fertilizer? It is best to pass them through the compost pit so that they become part of the nutrient for subsequent enrichment of the land. Moreover, compost with sawdust pereprevaet faster, because they maintain the desired temperature. In the spring, such humus is more friable and air-permeable. To use it is a pleasure.
So, how to prepare rotten sawdust as a fertilizer? For this we need the following ingredients:
- wood sawdust - 200 kg;
- grass, leaves and other plant waste - 100 kg;
- ash - 10 liters;
- water - 50 liters;
- urea is 2.5 kg.
Urea is first dissolved in water and watered with layers of sawdust, grass and ash.
Another recipe for the preparation of fertilizer based on sawdust is as follows:
- oak sawdust - 200 kg;
- mowed grass - 100 kg;
- cow dung - 50 kg;
- food waste and feces - 30 kg;
- humates - 1 drop per 100 liters of water.
Such fertilization of the soil with sawdust is suitable for plants requiring the introduction of large doses of nitrogen.
Which sawdust is better as a fertilizer?
Not all waste from the wood processing industry is suitable for preparing the fertilizer. For example, pine sawdust as a fertilizer is completely inappropriate. Like all coniferous species, pine very badly rot.
Whatever breeds of sawdust, in pure and even in the form they are strongly
To prevent this, you can immediately prepare the sawdust with lime. To do this, you need to dig a hole in one of the corners of the garden 1 meter deep, fill it with fresh sawdust, and sprinkle lime on top.
In two years the mass will pereperet and will be suitable for use in beds as a fertilizer. The benefit from it is enormous, because carbon released during the process of enrichment enriches the soil microflora, activating beneficial bacteria and increasing their number.