Sawdust as fertilizer: helping gardeners and preserving the environment

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Today, many people think that the natural resources of mother earth are not unlimited, therefore, their use was as rational as possible. Recycling becomes one of the priorities in business.

This issue has not bypassed the products of processing of the wood industry, in particular, sawdust. As a fertilizer, they were used before, they have always been a success with summer residents due to their availability and safety for plants and the environment. There are several ways to enrich the material for cultivating the land. By themselves, sawdust as a fertilizer is nothing special, but when processed, it can serve no worse than manure.

Soft sawdust has the ability to rot for a long time, so it is advisable to use them the next year after adding to the compost pit.

Sawdust from deciduous trees can be used fresh. To do this, they are moistened with a solution of urea and nitrogen-containing complex fertilizers. Wood sawdust can be mixed with liquid manure or chicken manure in the following proportion: three buckets of sawdust and one bucket of fertilizer. Thus, you will save the consumption of the main fertilizer, reduce itaggressive effect on the soil and achieve uniform distribution in the ground.

Sawdust introduced into the soil during the autumn agricultural work will significantly improve the qualitative composition of the earth, make it loose, crumbly and pliable, and also reduce the clay content of the soil. However, such land is also fertile ground for ants, beetles and other pests of our sites. If you have introduced sawdust into the ground as a fertilizer, then when ants appear, it is necessary to treat their nest with a solution of a mixture of ash and lime. Such processing to prevent the invasion of insects can be done in advance by processing the land around the ridges, on the sides of greenhouses and greenhouses.

The fight for recycling isn't limited to the garden. There are almost no places left where the waste recycling business has not been established. The manufacture of fuel from materials of plant origin has become widespread. In the case of wood waste, these are sawdust briquettes. The economic benefit from creating an additional type of income for wood processing enterprises is obvious. If waste is disposed of by incineration, it is fraught with multimillion-dollar fines from environmental control. The decomposition product from the combustion of sawdust - carbon monoxide - adversely affects the external environment. In addition, in the case of high humidity of the waste, they will simply smolder and not completely burn out. If, however, to create a production facility for the production of fuel briquettes, then, in addition to the high demand forproducts (briquettes are designed for any kind of fire, suitable for stoves, grills, fireplaces, just for a fire when going out into the countryside), the company will receive:

• lack of clutter on the territory;
• completely closed waste-free production process;
• no need to search for raw materials for production;
• environment protection.

When using sawdust as fertilizer or as a raw material for creating a new business, remember that by doing so you maintain the purity of our nature, air, and therefore our he alth.