Iyarkaiodu Naam - One with Nature

Things needed: 1. Cow Dung 2. Cow Urine 3. Green Leaves 4. Some Straw Allot a 4 x 10 area under the shade. And make sandwich of layers of cow dung, soil, green leaves and a little straw mixed with cow urine.Keep adding layers of each of these and sprinkle little bit of water in the evening. After 15 days dig 3 or 4 holes and add earthworm to it.  Allow 2 months for this sandwich to decompose and the compost will be ready. http://facebook.com/EyarkaiOduNaam

Instead of creating compost separately and then adding them on the land, you can do on the spot composting to save time directly onto the plants or on the farming beds. All the things that are used for preparing the compost can be used here. Refer to the video http://youtu.be/28aOA6Wzhn4. 1. Basically pluck all the plants, grass that are not needed on the bed and put them back on the bed. Add dried leaves, twigs as well. 2. Top it with a layer of cow dung. 3. Sow the grains or you can dig small holes to put ginger, turmeric or small saplings. 4. Cover it will a thin layer of straw. 5. Water it to wet the surface.

Simple and easy way to create bio-gas

An increase in weed growth indicates better soil health. But, weeds are considered as competitors  to plants and there is a tendency to remove, throw or burn them. Owing to their longer  decomposition time, wee ds are often destroyed. However, with increasing awareness on organic way of farming, weeds are increasingly being used for making organic manure. Weed as Fertilizer I tried a method which could convert weeds to organic form within 15 days. The method is as follows: Collected about 25 kg weed from my farm land, wastelands, roadsides etc. Then mixed them with 200gm jaggery, 200 gm salt, 200 gm. tamarind in 100 lit of water and left to decompose in a drum for 15 days. This mixture was rotated once in every three days. In 15 days the mixture was emanating a bad odour and was then converted to liquid form. When this liquid manure was used for vegetable crops, the growth was very luxurious. Though this indicated that the manure had high nutrient content, but still I wanted...