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Video: Ecological Rules For Summer Cottages. Part 2
2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47
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Sometimes some gardeners use newspapers as mulching material. In no case should this be done, since the newspaper ink used in printing includes components harmful to the soil: soot from oil gas, lead, cobalt, acids.
Newspapers and magazines with colorful illustrations are especially harmful: their paints contain phenol-formaldehyde and alkyd resins, kerosene fraction of oil, aluminum stearate and others.
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It is impossible to bring ash from burnt peat into the soil, since it contains few nutrients, and in large quantities there are oxides of silicon (3.5%), iron (15%), calcium (15-26%), aluminum (5 -ten%). With high acidity of the soil (and the soils of the Northwest, as a rule, are acidic), these compounds become available to plants and have a strong toxic effect both on plants and on those who will eat them. In addition, acidic soils and acid rains, which are not uncommon in our region, acidify.
As a rule, peat ash is brown-red in color - this means that there is a lot of iron. In the post-war years, in rural areas, stoves were heated with peat briquettes, and the ash remaining from them, due to illiteracy, was introduced into the soil of vegetable gardens. On such soil, plants grow frail or die altogether. For example, on the site of my cousin there are such corners where peat ash was introduced in the post-war years by our grandmother, and there still nothing grows. Earthworms don't live there either.
It is impossible to bring ash into the soil after the combustion of coal, since it contains aluminosilicates. In addition, this ash is acidic and also acidifies the soil.
You cannot burn any garbage on the garden land. First, because microflora dies in the soil when heated. Secondly, the ash from the incineration of household waste contains a huge amount of harmful substances that have a detrimental effect on plants, and then on a person if he uses such plants for food. Unfortunately, many gardeners often incinerate such household waste on their property.
So in our village, many summer residents burn very harmful garbage in their areas: car tires, plastic bottles, plastic, polyethylene, packaging, old chipboard furniture - and these are all hydrocarbons, formaldehydes and dioxins, which are very toxic to humans, and not only when they burn, their ash is very toxic. And with an increase in air humidity, which is typical for our region, an increase in the concentration of these harmful substances in the surrounding air occurs. Often it can reach toxic levels, causing acute poisoning not only in those who burn this household waste, but also in those who are in the immediate vicinity.
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Air pollution
Every day we breathe in about 25 kg of air and about one tablespoon of dust containing toxins, carcinogens, allergens, a significant part of which is not excreted from the body, but gradually accumulates, destroying immunity and health. And if we add to this the combustion products from the incineration of household waste in the garden area, such as: dioxins, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon, hydrocarbons that the gardener additionally inhales when burning garbage, then the harm will be greater.
Dioxin is the most toxic of all artificial substances. It is recognized throughout the world as an absolute poison. Dioxin appears when burning synthetic coatings, oils, linoleum, polyethylene, plastic bottles, tires. Once in the environment - water, air, soil, dioxins remain there, without disappearing anywhere, and constantly accumulate. They also accumulate in the human body, suppressing the immune system, like the AIDS virus, causing reproductive disorders and cancerous tumors.
If batteries are burned, an explosion may occur, and toxic metal substances contained in the battery will be released into the air. If the contents of the battery come into contact with the body, it will severely burn the skin.
In addition to the detrimental effect on human health of combustion products when burning garbage, they also affect the plants that we grow on our sites. It is not for nothing that in recent years we have been faced with a large number of diseases in garden and wild plants. So, scab began to appear more often on apple trees, a new disease appeared in plums - a pocket of fruits (modified banana-like underdeveloped fruits), in maples for several years in a row a huge number of large spots have appeared on the leaves.
In addition, the productivity of plants decreases, the growth of trees decreases, because they are much more sensitive to air pollution than people. Once in the atmosphere, these harmful substances interact with its gases and rains and again fall on plants, soil, and water bodies. As a result, the most sensitive species die, and more resistant ones take their place. For example, in recent years, acidification of our soils has been taking place, as a result of which some weeds are replaced by others: horse sorrel, horsetail, etc. Plants weakened by pollution become more sensitive to natural stress, insect pests, droughts, and their yield decreases.
Noise pollution
Coming from the city to the site, you want to take a break from its bustle and noise, listen to birdsong, buzzing insects, i.e. natural sounds of nature. But often the rest is overshadowed by gardeners who turn on loud music on their plots, forgetting that they are not alone in this area. Such technogenic noise is perceived negatively, it irritates, creates tension in the body, and causes aggressive behavior. Such noise pollutes the environment. Older faces are most sensitive to noise. I would like to advise such gardeners - music lovers to think not only about themselves, but also about their neighbors!
Electromagnetic radiation
They are produced by modern household appliances, appliances, telephone and radio stations, transformer boxes, power lines (power lines). Powerful electric and magnetic fields are created under the power lines, which, judging by medical research, strongly affect humans, animals and plants, causing cancer and leukemia in people living near such a source. You can't plant anything under power lines!
Think about descendants
According to the state of the territories adjacent to the summer cottages, one can judge the ecological culture of the population. Modern archaeologists extract historical artifacts from the earth: coins, vases, jewelry. And what will future archaeologists extract from the earth by studying our time and our "unique" garbage?
People! Come to your senses! Protect the environment! You poison yourself with the waste of your hectic life! Take your trash to the city and throw it in the trash cans or your trash chute. After all, you pay for the collection and disposal of waste. Why throw it outside your site ?!
The behavior of many gardeners who have a car and burn their garbage next to their plot is very surprising. In addition, some of them scatter the ash from burning this garbage in the garden and think that they are doing good to the soil, in fact, poisoning it. It is very strange to hear from such gardeners statements about "environmentally friendly" plants grown by them on soil, pretty much flavored with ash from burnt garbage.
Olga Rubtsova, gardener, candidate of geographical sciences
Vsevolozhsky district of the
Leningrad region
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