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Grass compost is a type of harvested garden compost that contains a large amount of grass from fields and meadows. It is necessary to improve the quality of the land on the site and allows you to make it high-quality black soil. Harvesting of such fertilizer can be done independently, which is beneficial in terms of saving personal funds. What is in the composition, what does a compost pit or box look like, about the features, precautions and quick composting, read the article.
Composition of humus
In practice, it has been proven that grass compost, consisting of a large amount of grasses, weeds and food residues, is an excellent fertilizer. It is easy to do it yourself without spending money and a lot of time. To obtain high-quality humus, it is necessary to include in it such components as green grass, straw, hay, weeds, branches and foliage, plant roots along with particles of earth, bark, sawdust, vegetables and fruits, bird droppings, manure, ash.
Special additives are widely used to speed up the composting process. You can not use the grass in isolation. Since in this case you will get liquid slurry or silage. In no case should you introduce into the composition such components as food of animal origin, weed seeds, human and animal feces, substances that cannot decompose naturally, chemical elements, plants that are infected with fungi or damaged by pests.
When creating your own compost heap, make sure that it does not include hops, horsetail, and other crops whose seeds do not tend to rot. Otherwise, they will only germinate and clog the site.
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Compost pit or compost bin
Particular attention should be paid to a special box in which the composition for fertilizer will be stored. You can use a large wooden box made of boards. For bedding, choose ready-made humus or chaff, sawdust. 
If last year’s humus already contains bacteria that affect fermentation, then they should be added when choosing chaff. One of the walls of the box should be a lid and be removed without problems. It is advised to make it from a dense film or a piece of slate. The box must be placed in a dark place. For compost, both waterlogging and excessive drying are equally harmful. When filling the box, you need to mix the contents and moisten it with water from a watering hose. A certain level of humidity and temperature should be constantly maintained inside the box. Grinding the ingredients with a shovel helps speed up the preparation of humus. It is required to add fresh soil from time to time. Part of it gets inside along with the roots of plants.
If you are the owner of a large plot, it is realistic to create a compost pit instead of a box. From the inside, it must be covered with slate. Be sure to leave a distance between the sheets so that the air can circulate normally.
When creating a compost pit, you need to adhere to the principle of a layer cake. This means that you should alternately make layers of grass and earth with sawdust. In the summer, it is necessary to protect the humus from precipitation, and on winter days – from the cold.
If temperatures are too low outside, the compost bin should be covered with a thick layer of straw. You can use old rags or corn leaves. The following year, plant residues are recommended to be used as a composition for new compost.
Characteristic features of herbal fertilizer
Quality compost must meet certain requirements. You can add its color to this list. Ideally, the humus should be light brown. Since black, which is sold in stores and on the market and is suitable for plants, does not have many useful trace elements. Properly prepared compost is also distinguished by the smell of dry leaves, mushrooms, forests. 
The creation process is considered broken if, when you open the box, you smell the characteristic smell of mold or rot. Then you need to leave it open so that the composition has the opportunity to dry. If this fails, the fertilizer will have to be thrown away. Signs of the readiness of humus are the presence of worms in it and the ability to make a ball out of the composition with your hands.
Safety measures
When making humus, you should be careful and follow some simple rules. The compost bin should be located away from all available sources of drinking water. If the compost pit is located on an irregularity, you need to make sure that it is below the well or well.
Remember not to allow your composition to overheat in the sun. Its quality suffers greatly from this, it is guaranteed to lose the lion’s share of its useful elements.
Accelerated composting
It should be remembered that the speed of compost readiness directly depends on a number of important factors. These include temperature, humidity, dimensions of the pit for storing compost. If you focus on natural manufacturing, you will have to wait until the composition is ready from 3 months to 2 years.
Today it is really possible to speed up this process. For this, regular watering of the heap is carried out. The weight and size of the grass is also important. It should be crushed. The increase in temperature is achieved by mixing chicken manure into the composition. If you create high humidity and the right temperature, water the prepared compost with special additives, introduce chicken manure into it, mix the layers, you can get ready-made fertilizer after 4-5 months.
You should know that in order to stimulate the growth of bacteria in humus, you need to mix it at least once a week. Although green grass and weeds are the basis of useful feeding, in order to get a truly high-quality composition, it should be made from 7 components. Store humus only in a pit or box.
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