By Izah Morales
INQUIRER.net
IF you’re tired of reading about the fertilizer fund scam issue, then maybe it’s time to turn the leaf and make your own organic fertilizer in the backyard.
During a walk at the La Mesa Ecopark, I noticed vermiculturist Rogelio Moreno mixing soil with worms, which they called Vermicompost, an organic fertilizer. The worms were digging holes and gliding in the soil. While some people would feel icky about worms, Moreno considers them as “angels of the Earth.”
“Ang kagandahan ng mga bulate, ang kanyang pupu, malaking katulungan sa mga farmers. Binubuhay nito ang lupa. [The worms’ feces are a big help to farmers because it enriches and enlivens the soil.],” says Moreno.
Moreno willingly taught me how to make vermicompost.
First, you should collect biodegradable garbage like dried leaves, fruit and vegetable peelings and animal feces. Then place them in an empty bed or container. Cover the garbage with dried leaves and straw. You can use all kinds of leaves except for mahogany, eucalyptus and nymph leaves, says Moreno.
To avoid the foul smell, add coco dust. Then water the bed everyday. Add the worms on top of the compost. After five days, you will notice that the worms have gone down. Cover it with a net. You will know that you have a fertilizer when the feces are fine. After two months, you can collect the fertilizer.
Moreno says a farmer can earn P 9,000 from one fertilizer bed.
Organic fertilizer will not only make your plants healthy but will make your pockets wealthy.
Make your own Vermicompost
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Vermicompost is the safest way to discard kitchen waste, this method turns the wastes into manure. As kids we'd collect dried leaves and put it in the pit, that was all we were asked to do and after some months the gardener would use it as manure.
The soil obtained from this method is completely safe on the plants. Earthworms are really very helpful, it is soil friendly and plays a vital role in producing high quality soil in Vermicompost pit method.
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Vermicompost is the safest way to discard kitchen waste, this method turns the wastes into manure. As kids we'd collect dried leaves and put it in the pit, that was all we were asked to do and after some months the gardener would use it as manure.
The soil obtained from this method is completely safe on the plants. Earthworms are really very helpful, it is soil friendly and plays a vital role in producing high quality soil in Vermicompost pit method.
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After two months, you can collect the fertilizer. Moreno says a farmer can earn P 9,000 from one fertilizer bed. Organic fertilizer will not only make your plants healthy but will make your pockets wealthy.
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Cover it with a net. You will know that you have a fertilizer when the feces are fine.
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Vermicomposting uses earthworms to turn organic wastes into very high quality compost. This is probably the best way of composting kitchen wastes. Adding small amounts of wet kitchen scraps to a large compost pile in the garden day by day can disrupt the decomposition process so that the compost is never really done. But it works just fine with vermicomposting.
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Merci pour cette information utile pour mes recherches!
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