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In the struggle with cultivated plants for a place under the sun, weeds, alas, win. They make their way even where nothing grows. Leave a pile of sand unattended - time will pass, and it will overgrow with an indestructible herbage. Is it possible to force the weeds to compensate the earth for what they have taken! It turns out you can. For example, make compost or liquid fertilizer out of them - excellent fertilizers for cultivated plants, "vitamins" for the soil.

Compost is prepared in so-called compost heaps. This is a biochemical reactor, where, under the influence of heat, water and air, plant residues are converted into substances rich in nutrients.

How to build a home biochemical reactor? Choose a small area on the site away from residential buildings and preferably on the sunny side. Fill it with a five-centimeter layer of sand, in extreme cases, lay branches. Lay out the first layer of weeds with a thickness of 20-30 cm in the form of a circle with a diameter of at least a meter. In order not to carry weeds around the garden, you need to skillfully lay them. Those that reproduce mainly by roots should be placed with the tops outward, and those that are seeds, on the contrary. Lay all subsequent layers with a seal along the edge in the form of a thick donut, as shown in fig. 1. Now you can demolish kitchen waste here, except for bones, they should be burned and scattered along with the ashes on the ground. As a rule, moisture coming from rains and food remains is not enough in dry, hot summers. Therefore, it is necessary to periodically add water to the drying up "reactor", and cover it with mowed grass to preserve moisture from above. Of course, beware of draining the water after washing.

Reactor in the garden
Rice. 1. A compost heap is formed from cut weeds and manure, laying them in layers

Carefully laid layers should not be shoveled. Decaying biomass releases so much heat that even weed roots rot. And the platform itself under it is enriched with nutrients, and, having dug it up, you will get a bed free from weeds and already fertilized. By moving the "reactor" every year, you can gradually weed and fertilize new areas of your site.

If you manage to buy fresh manure, then you can make a puff "pie": 20 cm of weeds, 20 cm of manure, and so on, and the top layer should be from plant residues.

The compost of the current year can only be used to fill planting holes for fruit trees, but after a thorough sorting, there are still many viable roots and seeds in it. It is even better not to touch until spring. During the winter, the compost settles, dries up, and in the spring it becomes overgrown with grass. Now remove the top layer, shake it off well and transfer it to the place where you have marked a new bookmark. Do not spare a few hours, carefully select all the surviving roots. They will dopreyut in a new place. By the end of summer, you will receive ready-made fertilizer. But even better is compost at the end of the third season.

And from the "reactor" - a repeater, you can arrange a flower garden. Transfer the sorted last year's compost to the recreation area and fold it into a hill, on top of which plant 5-7 nasturtiums. These annual flowers, when well nourished and watered, produce large decorative leaves and bright yellow-red flowers.

In mid-August, when the weather is dry, spread the nasturtium sticks and scoop a sample of the compost. A well-rotted homogeneous mass crumbles easily in the hands and smells pleasantly in autumn summer...

Liquid top dressing is one of the undeservedly forgotten methods of nourishing cultivated plants. It can replace all other fertilizers for a vegetable garden and a flower garden. We'll tell you how to cook it.

Place a large tank or barrel in a sunny spot. Lay the cut grass and weeds there, pour water to the top, tighten with plastic wrap (see Fig. 2). Fasten the film with a rope or an elastic band, pierce 3-4 small holes for air and leave to ferment for 8-10 sunny days. If the weather is bad, the wait will, of course, be longer. In the end, in the tank you will see what happens to be observed in a vase of flowers left unattended for a long time: the water will turn into a yellowish-greenish liquid with blades of grass soaked to stickiness and not the most pleasant smell. Liquid feed is ready! It is best used in the evening watering. To a watering can with ten scoops of water, add one scoop of liquid - this concentration is the most nutritious and will not burn tender young sprouts. Fill the remaining greens in the tank with water again and water with this solution the next day. And spread the sticky greens on the near-stem circles of fruit trees or berry bushes. The tank is ready for the next load.

Reactor in the garden
Rice. 2. Liquid fertilizer is prepared in a barrel of grass clippings, weeds and water. Get a few barrels and you will have a real conveyor.

You can use multiple tanks. Loading each subsequent one in 3-4 days, you will get a conveyor production.

At the beginning of summer, healthy fruit trees and berry bushes give a rapid growth of annual shoots. By the end of August, their green branches should become woody, otherwise they will freeze in the cold. Observe if the growth by the end of warm June is less than ten centimeters - this is a signal that the plants are not doing well. Throughout July, they need to be fed once a week, and in hot, dry weather, even twice, but with a more dilute solution. And in August-September, liquid top dressing will no longer go to plants for the future. This is the time now, but we hope our tips will help you in the future.

Author: V. Belkova

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