#Composteren #Warm composting #koud composting #groen material #bruin material #microorganismen #grote Organisms Hot or Cold Compost? If you have a large garden you can probably go for hot composting. For hot composting, you need to be able to collect enough material together in a short time. It will then be at least 1 m³ and you will need three bins next to each other. You can fill the baking in turn and leave it to compote. If you have a small garden up to 200 square meters you will often have less material and you will use cold composting. Then use a compost vessel. Always put it in the shade to avoid large temperature differences. Remember to cover the compost heap from sun and rain. Setting up compost heap Setting up a compost heap in container and filling a barrel is always the same: at the bottom comes a layer of woody and absorbent material for example wood chips, a layer of longer twigs or dry stems for some airiness followed by green and brown Materials. Make sure you don't stomp the materials because the organisms need oxygen. What are your green materials? Green materials are all fresh, moist, raw, unprocessed remains from the kitchen and the garden. These are nitrogen and nutrient-rich. What are your brown materials? Brown materials are dry residues, especially wood-like parts and dry leaves these are carbon rich and food poor. Always make sure that the brown layer is moist, otherwise the compost organisms will not be able to cope with it. The last layer The last layer on the compost heap is always a brown layer or a thin layer of lawn mowing. This muffles the temperature differences a little and prevents flying. You can also cover it with an old blanket or carpet made of organic air permeable material Microorganisms You do not have to do anything extra to bring the micro-organisms into your compost heap that are already in the air, in the soil and on the materials you throw on the compost heap. The bigger organisms When hope grows, all those organisms go to work. The larger organisms such as woodlice, centipedes and compost worms also know how to find hope. If you find the larger visible organisms in the compost heap that is a good sign there is enough air, water and food for the organisms in the compost heap to survive. If you have enough green and brown materials gathered together in a container of one cubic meter, the temperature in the container will quickly rise to above 70 °C. Hence the term hot composting. This is because the microorganisms bacteria and fungi work extremely hard and thereby develop heat. The heat can't get away from the inside so quickly and starts to be scalded. At this moment, the larger organisms choose the hare path and leave the compost hope to come back once the hope has cooled down. At these temperatures die germs, Seeds and plant cells that is beneficial because of this it is safe to use the contents of the compost heap at a later time as compost on the garden again. After cooling Over time, in the interior of the heap everything will be digested, and the temperature will decrease, then it's time to turn the hope. When the heat has decreased to about 50°, you do this as follows: You bring what was inside the heap to the outside and what was on the outside, so the hope comes back to incubation. This is repeated a few times until the temperature does not rise above 45° so you can rest the heap. The large organisms will only come back to this heap after cooling.

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