Probably, many summer residents are well aware of the benefits that sawdust brings on a personal plot. However, novice gardeners may not know this, so this information may someday be useful to them. Why do we need sawdust in the garden? First of all, wood shavings improve the soil structure, which becomes more loose, which is very favorable for the roots of plants. In addition, sawdust in the garden will provide the soil with nutrients.
For this reason, most summer residents prefer to use wood shavings as fertilizer. However, it is necessary to thoroughly treat it with a urea solution before this. 4-5 tablespoons of urea are bred in a bucket of water and three buckets of sawdust are soaked in the resulting solution. It will also be useful to add 1 tablespoon of potash fertilizers and one tablespoon of superphosphate to the solution. It is best to fertilize the soil with shavings moistened in this way in the autumn period, while the ratio is 1 bucket per 3-4 square meters of land.
The thing is that the level of nitrogen in comparison with carbon in the soil is significantly higher than in wood top dressing. If you have sawdust in the garden, remember that fertilizing the soil with them in any case is impossible without preliminary treatment, otherwise the fertility of the soil with your good intentions will simply worsen.
The reason for this is that the bacteria that decompose wood shavings will begin to take nitrogen from the soil that the plants need for normal development. Among other things, some of the components contained in the chips can also adversely affect plant growth. It is best to turn the sawdust in the garden into compost. To do this, mix them with the ground with the content of manure and leave them in this form for the whole year, adding moisture and covering if necessary to preserve useful components.
The effect of using this fertilizer will increase if you add hay or succulent grass to it.
Currently, among gardeners, a type of fertilizer such as compost, based on wood shavings and bird droppings, is unusually in demand and popular. At the same time, experts do not recommend the use of sawdust composts until all its components decompose and the structure resembles oily peat of a dark color.
A huge percentage of summer residents prefer to use the material in question for the implementation of the soil mulching procedure . The process of decomposition of wood chips at the same time proceeds slowly - about two years. It consumes a lot of moisture, helping to strengthen the water-holding properties of light soils. Among other things, material for country vegetation is transformed into excellent mulch.
Of course, the use of sawdust is not limited only to the scope of land use. This material has long been a source of creating promising business ideas.
Sawdust processing involves the production of fuel, gas, briquettes, building materials.
Thus, the practical application of the above material is unusually wide, therefore, sawdust should in no case be disposed of, but it is better to use them in solving a variety of problems.