How to use sawdust

Many people wrongly assume that the usual sawdust from wood represent a waste material. In fact, sawdust can on the farm to good use more than once. Such areas for the application of sawdust, there are several, and they will serve at their summer cottage, and in the construction of or repairs or even for children.

Instruction

1. Use wood sawdust in gardening and horticulture for mulching of the soil, for example, under the currant bushes and the raspberries and currants. To do this, take rotted sawdust, if there are none, then prepare the fresh (if you don't, the sawdust will take nitrogen from the soil). Lay plastic wrap large size, pour on it 3 buckets of sawdust and 200 g of urea, and then from a watering can pour on the sawdust 10 l of water and repeat this several times. After that, wrap it all in foil, and press down the edges with stones. Two weeks later, can the resulting rotted sawdust to mulch the garden. Best do it in early summer when actively evaporates moisture from the soil. If the layer for mulching will be too large, then in the autumn or in late summer loosen the soil.
2. Spread sawdust with a thin layer on the beds with strawberries, it will not allow the berries to touch the ground and protect them from Botrytis. In this case, if will make the sawdust in the fall, they will be able to protect strawberries from winter frosts. To do this, use fresh sawdust from softwood treated with urea.
3. Can use sawdust in construction: the plaster walls in the garden house. For solution preparation prepare the cement, clay, sawdust and newsprint. First well mix the cement and sawdust, then add the clay and paper pulp. Stirring, add water to obtain a viscous homogeneous mass. On the wall, pre-coated with dice, pounce the plaster, and then immediately smooth a special grater. The thickness of this coating should be approximately 2 see the plaster dries up to 2 weeks, do not forget to constantly ventilate the room. The plaster is only suitable for interior work, the walls are quite warm with a porous surface.
4. Use sawdust in the children's creativity: use the cardboard figure with a simple plot. Then the drawing color. After that, choose the right color gouache, ink or watercolour paint. Dilute the paint in water and cover for 15-20 minutes sawdust for coloring directly into the solution. Then dry the sawdustto lay them on paper or on fabric, stirring from time to time. When the sawdust dries, place them in envelopes by color.
   Apply glue to a small section of the pattern, pour a layer of sawdust of the right color and slightly press down. Those filingsthat are not stuck to, shake off.