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Using its compost
 
You now have a nice pile of compost ready for use, so how can you use it?
The soil should be breaked down but not returned, nor too wet or too dry. Spread compost instead in the spring or fall and let it penetrate slightly into the ground (with a rake for example).
The compost can be […]
Posted : December 6th, 2007 under - Composting.
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The successful compost
 
The compost allows you to exploit all your organic waste into fertilizer for the soil: humus. The humus is an effective fertilizer, which also limits appearance of diseases and pests. So it not only reduces the contents of dustbins and save on the purchase of chemical fertilizer, but it also permit to work without pesticides […]
Posted : November 28th, 2007 under - Composting.
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The materials to compost
 
Compost is a story of good proportion of carbonaceous materials and nitrogen. The best for micro-organisms actors of the compost (they produce proteins from nitrogen and minerals and find their energy from sugars from the carbonaceous material in decay) is to have 30 to 40 times more carbon than nitrogen
The compost materials rich in […]
Posted : September 21st, 2007 under - Composting.
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The materials that you should not compost
 
All our wastes can’t be composted, some because of difficulty or problem, others because impossible or dangerous :
This materials are difficult to compost or problematic:
The thick leaves or tannin-rich: (composting possible, but it must be crushed and composting is long)
Oak,
Chestnut,
Wood,
Tree,
Walnut,
Leaved shrubs persistent
Conifer needles, sizes cedar or cypress (their decomposition is slow and produces a […]
Posted : September 14th, 2007 under - Composting.
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Some interesting books
 
Some of our reference books :
Toits et murs végétaux
de Nigel Dunnett, Noël Kingsbury, François Lassalle (Préface), Erika Laïs (Traduction)
Piscines écologiques : De la conception à la réalisation
de Wolfram Franke, Elisabeth Lansel (Traduction)
Récupérer les eaux de pluie
de Brigitte Vu
La conception bioclimatique : Des maisons économes et confortables en neuf et en réhabilitation
de Jean-Pierre Oliva, Samuel […]
Posted : January 3rd, 2007 under Green building, Renewable Energies, - Wind turbines, - Wood, - Solar thermal collector, - Photovoltaic panels, - Passive solar heating, - Wooden building, - Natural roof, - Woodburning stove, - Harvesting rain system, - Toilet, - Composting, - Selective waste sorting, - Natural sanitation, - Natural swimming pool, - Solar cooker, - Interior decorations.
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