Composting as a alternative treatment of biodegradable waste from vegetable production in home gardens and yards

Abstract

A large amount of organic matter is formed during vegetable production. A part of the created organic matter is in the form of plant parts that are used in human consumption. Most often, those are the fruits of tomato, pepper, cucumber, leaves of lettuce and spinach, or root of radishes and beets, etc. The organic residue in vegetable production implies the biomass residues of annual and perennial vegetables species, stems, leaves, roots of vegetable species, stems of other crops, grass clippings, leaves, husks, as well as unused feed remains of farm animals, and manure. Therefore, our goal is to show the importance of composting organic garden residues from vegetable production, as a possibility of restoring a part of organic matter in garden soil.

U proizvodnji povrća stvara se velika količine organske materije. Deo stvorene organske materije se iznosi u obliku delova biljaka koji se koriste u ljudskoj ishrani najčešće su to plodovi: lišće, ili koren. Drugi ʺne manje interesantanʺ deo povrtarske proizvodnje čini "organski ostatak". To su ostaci biomase jednogodišnjih i višegodišnjih vrsta povrća, stabla, lišće, korenje povrtarskih biljaka, stabljike drugih biljaka, pokošena trava, lišće, ljuske, neiskorićeni ostaci hrane domaćih životinja, ali i stajnjak. Cilj nam je da ukažemo na značaj kompostiranja baštenskog organskog ostatka iz proizvodnje povrća, kao mogućnost obnavljanja ili vraćanja dela organske materije u zemljište bašte.