decompose articles Tag

Composting

The benefits Compost is a 100% natural and excellent quality fertilizer. It lightens the soil and allows for savings on fertilizers, soil and water. Composting is also a significant ecological gesture as it reduces household waste by 30 to 40%. It diverts organic waste from collection and processi ...

30
Jan
2007

Mushroom Picking: Understanding Mushrooms in 5 Questions

mushrooms to appear, certain temperature and humidity conditions must be met. Mushrooms only last 2 to 7 days. Once their spores are dispersed, they decompose very quickly and disappear without a trace. This is why mushroom picking is a more complex art than one might think! 3- How do mushrooms sur ...

09
Sep
2011

Garden: 5 Grandma's recipes that work

t this tip really works! To use banana peel as fertilizer, simply cut it into pieces and throw it into the planting hole of your crops. As they decompose, banana peels provide nutrients to plants as long as you water regularly. For this grandma's recipe to work, you also need to make sure t ...

13
Aug
2021

White lupine: a decorative and edible plant

r about 3 months - cut its aerial parts and incorporate them into the soil to enrich it. Caution: do not pull the plant out but let its roots decompose in the soil so that they release nitrogen. You can also sow this lupine between the rows of your crops, for example in the middle of whea ...

13
July
2022

Dressing room: 5 tips to make room in your closet

d clean out, the beginning of the year is also the time for sales ... But before you give in to the sirens of bargains, if you want to save money and decompose your closets, start by listing the clothes and accessories you already own. As a rule, we don't have a clear picture of everything we acc ...

18
Jan
2023

Gardening: why you should avoid using peat

iated by gardeners, comes from bogs, particular ecosystems found in wetlands. In these humid and acidic environments, mosses called sphagnum grow and decompose very slowly. The gradual decomposition of sphagnum in an acidic and oxygen-poor environment eventually forms a substrate highly concentrate ...

05
Apr
2023

Garden: 5 good reasons to use straw.

lso helps limit the growth of weeds or at least smaller ones. Mulching the soil therefore reduces the chore of weeding. 4- It enriches the soil as it decomposes. In addition to being a good mulch with multiple benefits, straw helps to enrich your soil as it decomposes. Unlike other materials used as ...

14
June
2023

Vegetable garden: which mulch for which plant?

But be careful: not all organic materials are equal and they are not used in the same way! Dead leaves do not provide long-lasting mulch because they decompose quite quickly. Grass clippings must be dried in the sun before they can be spread on the soil. If you don't dry them long enough or if you ...

26
Sep
2024

Science: Why You Should Stop Drinking Bottled Water

produced each year for bottling water, and a large portion of this plastic ends up in nature, oceans, and rivers, where it takes up to 1,000 years to decompose. It is estimated that one million plastic water bottles are sold every minute worldwide. However, once the water is consumed, only 9% of th ...

21
Oct
2024