I this video I explain what we do when we run out of our own homemade compost. I also show our composting bay system made from pallets and describe how to use this method to make the best compost.
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Love your channel and thank you for sharing your knowledge. A worm bin is a great way to produce fast compost and cheap. I keep mine in the garage and highly recommend it/them.
Thank you ,Mark.
Why not borrow/steal garbage from your neighborhood before this happen?
Excellent tips
Kick start my compost with alfalfa meal or pellets
Dig deeper?? Hurry up and eat some food or chopping down dead plant material? Hehehe
Whenever I have a container of dirt that needs refreshed, I'll dump the soil into another container. Then I'll add fresh scraps on the bottom and fill back up with the old dirt. It's less of an eyesore and breaks down nicely, especially if you rinse and repeat. 🙂
I have just learned about fermenting nettles in another movie. Its a quick way to get a complete nutrition fluid.
my rotunding composter smells bad and is too wet. Had to add more leaves, dry soil, sand to soak up the wetness. i just feel bad for the worms
Hey Mark! I am a cook first and a gardener a distant second. Compost for me in the garden is like making your own stocks and sauces in the kitchen, you know what goes into them. Cheers!
I put cheap potting mix in my compost to add some fill and structure. It helps bulk it up when you know you'll need some soon. Also, I add the cheap manure bags you can get, doesn't hurt to grab a $3 bag of aged poo and chuck it in a week or two before you use the whole compost. Mix it in, bulk up your compost and the few weeks (or months) it's in there will turn the whole lot in to a nice mix. Plenty of poo for sale here in Toowoomba, but it takes a while to age. So I age fresh poo for a few months in a separate compost by itself, then add that in to my main compost to give it a boost.
Can you compost your spent container dirt at the end of the season?
A friend blessed me with a chicken sack full of horse manure, so I used that, plus this summer I bought me a large bin & am now a red worm lady & I get all the free fresh worm compost that helps allot… Also have some Simples G&B blood meal, but lOsT on how & when it's best to use this, any suggestions from a pro? Would be deeply appreciated… Also looked & can't see where it says, that it's "organic" but told by the Nursery that it is, anyone know for sure please? Great video as always, thanks bud, appreciate you & your knowledge…
Man, I sure miss my last place. We had tons and tons of fall leaves. Not only did I have more than enough compost but I was also able to make leaf mold.
You must be a favorite uncle in your family
Hhhggg
I compost everything I can get my hands on. I shred newspapers, I shred up boxes of every single kind. Even packaging that food comes in, as long as it doesn't have any plastics in it. pasta boxes, cereal boxes, you name it, it gets shredded and composted.
ALL yard waste, grass clippings, mulched up branches, leaves from trees get mowed into mulch and composted. There isn't anything that isn't a meat product or a plastic, that I don't compost. If I can mow it up, chip it, grind it, or shed it,,, it will be composted. I simply do not know how anyone can run out if they are efficiently composting everything they can get their hands on.
We also have a heating system to sterilize our own potting soil. Once it is really hot, it is allowed to cool down on it's own, and then we add nutrients back into it. and let the microbes do it's thing for a few months before using. We do not throw soil out, we just regenerate it. The heating process kills off bad bacteria. bugs, seeds, and weeds. We simply let it stabilize back into the solid black gold soil that it naturally works its magic in doing. Mother nature will get it back to being the best soil possible.
I love the bit of acting in the beginning ! You are so adorable!
Whhhhhyyyyy???? Hahaha, I think I got the joke, you snowflake.
Thanks for the explanation of the three compost bays, that really helped and I can do that. I’ll build one this winter. Will it take longer to decompose as it’s colder up,in NW France? Thanks.
why???!!!!!!!!
TL Gardens I’ve heard of the Coke, beer and Ammonia combination before.
Hope it goes well never tried it but it’s on the cards.
Having a Ford One Toner, helps, using the basics of usable quality products like vegetable scraps from a fruit shop, trying not to use seeding vegetables, or pulp from a Juice shop like carrot pulp, coffee grounds, newspaper mulched up wet or office shredded paper, horse manure from racecourse or bedding both mixed together, saw dust and naturally good quality lawn clippings. I can get free wood chip too from my local council.
It’s been a bit tough with Covid19, Lockdowns but that’s okay, I haven’t ran out yet.
My only suggestion would be buying small bags of compost is extremely expensive when compared to buying a half a tonne of compost or a cubic metre, depending on your needs.
I have a Bokashi bin system. In previous rentals (and when I was living with my parents) I'd just bury it somewhere in the garden, but now I have 2 compost bins too so I've been chucking the "cooked" Bokashi into there – it breaks down in a matter of weeks. I've also been spreading a bucketful of the mix about 15cm down in my raised beds.
He is definitely getting better at acting lol
Can i compost only with green material layering with garden soil?.
A suggestion, on the bed you are resting: put down some palettes and put pots on top of plants/seedlings you want to start or plants you want contained. Or anything else like; compost tumbler, 44 gallon drums etc. A resting bed space can still be used, the soil might a little compacted but if you need the space there are options. 😀
I dont understand why your restricting the air flow with the cloth. I get the reason for the lid from the rain.
You are awesome Mark