Biofuel for plants. We create warmth in cold weather

Even before the revolution, peasants supplied vegetables to St. Petersburg every year from April to November. It is interesting that they grew them in greenhouses, hotbeds, as well as greenhouses, where biological heating was used. Firewood and manure were burned in the stoves. This was called biofuels.

Biofuels in summer cottages: from which plants?

Currently, there are other types of biofuels. For example, you can use any waste containing fiber: leaves, straw, sawdust, paper, etc. During the processing of cellulose, microorganisms release a lot of energy, thereby heating the earth.

It's cheap and easy. In addition, this method allows you to keep the optimal temperature in the room, does not require constant supervision. Such biofuels are suitable for use from late winter to early spring. It is especially good to use the method in deep greenhouses dug into the ground. Large agricultural organizations use a huge amount of biofuel - manure. Here, manure is prepared in advance, laying it in a thick layer, and also, tamping it with sawdust and straw, for additional warmth. From above, everyone is covered with good fertile soil and seedlings and plants are planted at a time when there is still a blanket of snow everywhere. Such greenhouses are equipped with glass frames, and in cold weather they are additionally covered with straw mats.

Also, fallen leaves, dry grass, branches and tops are used as biofuels from plants. From autumn to spring they are dried, and in the spring they are mixed with manure, feces or mineral fertilizers, dumped in a heap and poured with boiling water, or they put a hot stone inside the heap. Thus, the biomass begins to "flare up" and after a couple of weeks it is laid out in prepared trenches, covered with a layer of earth on top, and the beds are already cultivated on it. It should be remembered that the biofuel layer should not be thinner than 20-25 cm.

There is so much work in the spring that you may not have time to prepare the pits with biofuel, and the soil may be frozen. Therefore, it is better to dig trenches in the fall, and lay biofuel mass in them. And in the spring, add manure and everything else necessary to warm up the biomass.

In order to effectively use the useful, heated space, before planting tomatoes, cucumbers and other warm crops, you can grow seedlings in such a greenhouse, as well as plant and grow early and cold-resistant crops: radishes, spinach, lettuce, rutabagas and others.

In case of severe frosts, the planting must be covered with a film.

So, using this technique, you can grow various crops in the early stages, as well as in cold regions.

Already this spring, you can collect all the leaves from the site, the remains of tops and other plants, and use this biomaterial as biofuel from plants. The denser and thicker the biofuel layer will be, the better it will be saturated with slurry and water, the longer it will “burn”, warming the soil from above for the successful cultivation and development of plants.

Biofuel for indoor plants

There are also several heating options for growing indoor plants.

If the apartment has central heating, then everything is simple. Radiators installed directly under the windowsills provide good heating, thereby creating comfortable conditions for the growth and development of indoor crops. You can also independently adjust the required temperature mode by installing, for example, a screen made of film.

In private houses, where stove heating prevails, the temperature in the room is constantly changing, and also unevenly distributed, especially cool, just the same, near the windows where the plants are planted. Here, something like a hose or a sleeve should be held so that the necessary heat is supplied to the plants.

There is also a type of electric heating, when the heaters are put on for a while. And also to the balcony in cold months, if there are many plants grown there.

There is also natural solar heating. It is simply necessary for growing any crops, and is mainly used on balconies, terraces and in open areas in greenhouses and greenhouses.

Here, the rays of the sun, penetrating through glass or film, are very quickly capable of heating the air temperature even higher than the current temperature outside. Therefore, glazed balconies can be used for growing plants as early as April, and open balconies at the end of May.

The method of using biofuels for plants can also be applied in an apartment, especially if the plants are grown in large containers, buckets or barrels, or boxes. So, as biomass, you can take dry grass, sawdust, again plant debris, paper - everything that contains cellulose. Biofuel for plants should be poured abundantly on the bottom of the vessel, in a layer of up to 50 cm, and on top of a small layer, about 15 cm, the soil is laid. Thus, biofuel is capable of “burning” from a month to four months, which has a beneficial effect on the growth and development of plants and vegetable crops, since the roots are constantly heated. It is especially great if this is combined with solar heating, which most often occurs in greenhouses or roofed mansards. The yield of crops in this case can only be envied.