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How long does it take for fertilizer to mature: preparing compost, humus and infusion
08.02.2023 16:39
Updated: 13.04.2023 22:50
Everyone knows how useful it is to turn a pile of weeds or vegetable tops into a healthy and environmentally friendly fertilizer.
The most popular of these preparations are compost, humus and herbal infusions. They are used as mulch, top dressing and fertilizers for the soil.
Here's how long it takes to cook each one.
1. Humus
Prepared from soil, plant remains or animal products (manure). Serves to increase the heat and moisture capacity of the soil, loosens heavy soils, and helps make light soils more viscous.
The period of humus preparation depends on the method. With the hot method, the process takes 3-5 months. The cold method takes from a year to several years.
2. Compost
Summer residents love this fertilizer for its ease of preparation. Anything that has grown in the beds is used (except for chemically treated and fungus-affected ones), and the additive is ready in 3 months to 2 years. If you add bacterial preparations, you can influence the compost maturation period. They are prepared in bags, pits, piles, and special containers.
3. Herbal infusion
This is the fastest way to get the nutritional mixture – it will take only 1.5-2 weeks.
Weeds or herbs such as nettle, chamomile, quinoa, and chickweed are used.
Cultivated plants include onions and garlic, lavender, marigolds, basil, mint, and petunia.
Green manure includes clover, mustard and legumes.
Usually fresh grass is chopped, placed in a container to 2/3 of the volume, and then filled with water. Then covered with film, holes are left and put in a warm place for 7-10 days, stirring periodically. Readiness is determined by the release of a specific smell from the liquid.
Important! This infusion is concentrated and therefore it is diluted in a ratio of 1:10.
