Growing a garden is not a once size fits all solution, so in this video we will show you one component of gardening that makes gardening so easy anyone can do it. Compost pile permaculture might just be the thing you need to get you growing food and gardening more successfully!
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I am amazed by all the terminologies used here. I grew up farming when I was back home in the part of Africa (FYI I was an adolescent then)… now that I live in an urban place in the U.S., it appears pretty hard to garden, but through your video, I just learn that all of this time, what I was doing with composting is called core composting. I suppose my grandmother and relatives taught me well. Thank you for your video.
I'm going to try that with my compost. Thanks. All those plants in the same place provide shade to the soil as well.
Question: I was always under the impression that the key to a compost pile was to get the heat high enough to kill the seeds – weeds, etc.?
Could u do a update of the potatoes you planted in containers?
LOL my whole backyard did that last year. We had a compost accident….
I had two pumpkins sprout out of my compost pile this year. I think they came from the two decorative pumpkins I put there after last fall!
First garden this year i appreciate all your advise. Thank you!
It is a male plant, thank so much you are a very positive guy, I have learned a lot and it makes me happy when I apply those knowledge to my permaculture garden, thanks once again.
Does that area stay shaded?
That's likely how gardening came to be in the first place. Our Neolithic ancestors would pile their garbage up in trash middens located a little ways away from their camp. These include rotting vegetable matter and animal by-products like bones and more unusable parts. Discarded seeds would find fertile ground in which to grow there.
I have a similar situation in my compost pile. A giant mystery squash plant and some tomatoes coming up, just so happens the squash I planted didn't germinate well so I was able to use cuttings to get them going. Only problem is the shortage of space is causing the squash vines to grow up the foliage, effectively trampling and strangling other plants in a vicious cycle of life and death. So I'm doubtful I will see yields from the compost squash but I've been able to benefit from it in my garden nonetheless.
Great info Luke, thanks for sharing, Dianne
I’m a busy mom trying to work two part-time jobs. I had lofty goals of planting a beautifully organized garden this year. I became too busy to adaquately water the veggies I planted and they didn’t make it. I compost directly in my garden space in the winter though and God helped me out by growing things for me! I have tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumber and sunflowers growing that I didn’t plant and are doing great! My volunteer cucumber is using the sunflowers as a trellis. Thanks for this video. My garden is messier looking than I wanted, but doing great!
This only works with heirloom seeds. Hybrid seeds might not produce edible produce.
I was wondering a couple of days ago how these plants ever survived with how much cultivation goes into growing them, specifically preventing seeds from rotting, but I see now that they could do fine on their own too.
I have so many questions! Are you planning to let everything grow all season and eat what it produces? These volunteers are using up the nutrients that you are trying to create (in the compost to be used in the garden), so the compost under them won't be as rich once the plants are done, but I guess then that pile will start net year's batch. And that pile was supposed to feed this year's garden – since you're letting plants take it over, you now need an alternative plan for feeding your current garden, correct? I appreciate anyone's insights into this. TYIA
Did you do an update?
Wow
Me encanta tu jardín ami también me encanta sembrar
What surprises me most is that these giant vegetables need no watering; all the water they require, Pain tells me, is synthesized in the compost. http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_pain.html Jean Pain: France's King of Green Gold
By Nicolas Poulain (From: Reader's Digest — November 1981 — pages 76-81)
Apparently I've been doing this on accident for years already! We have tomatoes that grow like weeds every year because of it lol. Now I start compost piles on purpose to get better harvests.
Great Post! How do you get such great compost?
Who are the clowns that would thmbs down this post?
I love lazy gardening. Thanks for this!
This man knows what plants crave.
I looked at my compost today and had like 12 pumpkin seedlings so thanks for this specific video!
I am just doing a winter compost pile in my garden. I'm going to put everything in it, I only have one tomato plant left. Then top it with newspaper before snow comes.
It's the beginning of October, I live in south Florida, and it's the perfect time of year to grow vegetables. The last few days I've recycled some large cattle feed containers. I've drilled holes on the sides and on the bottom for air flow and water drainage. And filled them up with compost, rock dust, epsom salt and some worm castings etc. I'll be planting some vegetables, and some tomatoes in them. Thank you for doing this video, i really enjoyed it.