Compost pit with their hands

Having a piece of land, whether cottage or country house, the owner often grows in their area of ​​green, flowers, fruit and ornamental trees.Apply chemical fertilizers for plant growth in the area is not desirable.At the same time, they require regular fertilizing.The way out - is the use of organic fertilizers.The most affordable option, including from an environmental point of view - the use of compost.

compost pit is readily available for independent production of each owner of the land.For its arrangement, according to the following example, you can use materials that cost mere pennies.For example, in our case the composting box is made with his own hands from the pallets under the building materials.Pallets - material actually worthless.They can be purchased for a token money, or simply pick up after the discharge of any of packaged materials.

Stages

1. First, you must choose a place most suitable from the point of view of the prevailing winds and the distance from the accommodation, to install a compost heap.

2. In the drawing, the example shows how to make a compost pit (box), so that it was not only convenient to use and had a presentable appearance, but also can be easily disassembled after filling.

3. Preliminary work in this case consist of the dismantling of wooden pallets into their constituent board.As a result, we get the disassembly-edged boards shalёvku.

4. Using the circular machine cut the resulting board to the workpiece about a meter in length, of which will be made compost pit.

5. The two boards using the jigsaw slotted holes for winding of transversal boards.The photo and video accompanying the process can be clearly seen what you need to make cuts in the rest of the board to the compost pit, made with his own hands, going into the overall design.

6. All boards, except the front side planks are mounted vertically and are mounted on the mounting adhesive, and the front board is set at an angle to the dry construction.This is done for ease of disassembly.This arrangement allows the compost pit easily rearrange it to a new location or disassemble when it is filled with plant residues up to the top.

7. In order to ensure the future sustainability of the composting box, when it is installed in the space, lower design of the board should be put on the ground with the help of the level.

minimum of effort and cost

So little effort, from the recycled materials can be produced quite a decent-looking compost pit (box), allows to recycle vegetable waste from the site.crop residues compacted it ripen under the influence of moisture and spoilage bacteria, becoming a high-quality organic fertilizer suitable for the fertilization of all plants in the area.Having on hand a minimum of tools and materials (in their capacity as you can use any wood illiquid), you can make the right, fits perfectly into the design of a garden plot, structure.

Tools

From tools enough to have: circular saw or hand circular saw (quite enough ordinary hacksaw on wood), jigsaw, chisel, glue gun, tape measure and level, a set of clamps and a wooden mallet to build a composting box.To protect the wood from damage by pests and moisture, the board may be coated with a moisture-resistant enamel or lacquer with antifungal impregnation, and then your product will serve faithfully for many years.

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