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List the steps for preparing vermicompost.

Class 6CBSEScienceChapter: Garbage In Garbage
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  • Dig a pit about 30 cm deep or select a wooden box.
  • Spread a net or chicken mesh at the bottom of pit or box. You can also spread 1 to 2 cm thick layer of sand.
  • Spread some vegetable wastes including peels of fruits over the sand layer. You can use green leaves, husk or pieces of newspaper, dried stalks of plants and dried animal dung.
  • Sprinkle some water to make the layer wet. Do not
  • Use excess of water
  • Press layer of leaves or waste so that it has sufficient air and moisture,
  • Now, buy some redworms and put them in the pit.
  • Cover them loosely with an old sheet of cloth or a layer of grass.
  • Redworms need food. So, you can provide them as food—vegetable and fruit peels, coffee and tea remains and weeds from the field or garden. Bury this food about 2-3 cm inside the pit.
  • Do not put salt, pickles, oil, vinegar, meat and milk preparations. This may cause growth of disease-causing organisms. Redworms do not survive in very hot or very cold surroundings.
  • After 3-4 weeks, put some waste food in one comer of the pit. Most of the worms will shift towards newly added food.
  • Remove the compost from the vacated part and dry it in the sun for a few hours. The vermicompost becomes ready for use.
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