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Why Add Dolomite Flour to Compost: A Useful Summer Cottage Trick
21.11.2024 11:16
Are you still actively filling your compost bin with organic materials?
Please note the following: if this mass periodically contains fruits that are highly acidic (for example, apples), then serious problems may arise with the further “preparation” of organic fertilizer.
Worms and beneficial microorganisms simply won’t be able to do their “job” properly.
However, the problem is solved very simply: you need to use some kind of deoxidizer.
Dolomite flour may well act as the latter, emphasizes Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist and landscape designer.
What happens if you add dolomite to compost
The use of this additive helps to stop the acidification of the substrate.
As a result, the full process of formation of high-quality organic fertilizer is resumed.
But it is important not to overdo it: 200 grams of dolomite flour is enough for 10 kilos of compost.
What can be used instead of dolomite
There are several interesting alternatives.
Dolomite can easily be replaced with chalk, lime or unburned wood residues.
Whatever deoxidizer you choose, the proportion remains the same: 200 grams of additive per 10 kilos of “organic matter”.
For reference
Dolomite flour is a loose or free-flowing mass consisting of dolomite crystals (or their aggregates), used in agriculture for liming soils.
