In this video, I show you how to compost shredded paper to make rich, fertile, plant food and soil improver. Why waste paper or place it in the recycle bin when you can turn it into beautiful compost and use it in the garden to grow big fat healthy vegetables!
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G'day everyone, just wanted to say thanks for getting this video over 200k views! Just one extra point about shredding the paper – it increases the surface area which helps it to break down easier and faster. Remember: Be self sufficient in something… 😉
The plastics are now known to be dangerous.
Could you add worms inside the tumbler? Then once you empty the completed chamber add a bit of that processed soil in to add some worms back in? And if you can use worms would you use composting worms or earth worms? I just finished building my Maze tumbler today & it was a beast to assemble! But I have so much backyard clean up to do it’s going to get very full vey fast and a 3 bay system isn’t an option.
Really nice video. You are correct about those little plastic envelope windows not composting. One year long ago I threw a bunch of old bank statement envelopes into my compost heap and forgot about it. A year later I was puzzled to find identically sized little rectangular pieces of thin plastic scattered about in my garden soil. They kept popping up in the most random places. What were they? It took a bit of sleuthing for me to solve this weird mystery; they were those silly windows from the envelopes! Everything else made of paper had vanished into compost!
How do you shred your paper? I deliver newspapers part time and always have a lot left over, so I am looking at shredding a bunch of it for composting or mulching. I've been looking at some nice electric chipper/shredders online, but nothing seems to be in stock or even able to backorder, thanks to the global shortages.
Also can use bunny wee and Poo too. It makes me grow huge zucchini’s
what about the bleach in yhe paper??
So a worm is a worm is a worm right, or is it? [or are they?] Everyone is talking about 'red wrigglers', but are they the only worm for the composter? I collect garden worms & put them into my composter, but is that ok? What do you reckon mate, cheers.
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But don't termites love Paper? Use paper…not too close to the house?
Love the video but I gotta tell you from the thumbnail I thought you were Brian Quinn lol
Could you put rat/mouse bedding? Would be a mix of shredded paper, wood chips and their waste.
Great video! I agree with only using manure from vegetarian critters otherwise the smell can get repulsive. We also don't put in anything that was cooked (bread, oatmeal, etc.) which helps keep the rodents out.
Man, I wish my backyard looked like yours! You know you're in paradise, right! I've lived in my home for 31 years and I'm still pulling hypo needles, hood ornaments and all sorts of construction debris out of my backyard….bleck! Did you know when you bought your place that your property was facing in th right direction and so forth. Good on you, mate!
Question: Would it be possible to custom make your compost in the tumbler bin, and when it's matured, mix it in with your open-bay pile as a "starter" – just like making sourdough bread starter and so forth? Anybody ever do this? Let us know by replying to this post and thanks!
Does shredded paper contain any nutrients?
The ink is poison
What about the ink, and metals in ink?
There really is something satisfying about turning junk mail that would generally be waste for someone to get rid of into something useful that will better the earth (and the trees that went into making that paper are now back again in the earth in a different form). I have been doing this for years but you have answered a few questions I've had in the process that I'll be incorporating into my composting. I had no idea you could put so much paper in each batch which is great because I have a lot. One thing I should mention, you are using a paper shredder that makes strips of paper. I have just recently gotten a crosscut cutter that turns paper into much smaller (and faster to compost) tiny pieces of paper. If you get, like I did, one that says it will take 16 pages at once you can shred cardboard too. I shred my boxes and all cardboard. I haven't a clue what they glue is made of so you may want to check that out if you will be using the compost for your veggies. I use mine in the flower area.
just started chopping my dry, clean eggshells (rinse them in cold water, let them dry in a bowl) in an old blender (probably dulls the blades) because they're always the part that won't compost well. If you turn them into small pieces they turn into soil and become useful much faster.
For the whole life in the garden, they used a compost pit measuring several cubic meters, where not only the remnants of fruits and vegetables went, but also all the grass, weeds and other greens and leaves. the earthworm helps to recycle all this very well.
put it in a full sun area, more heat the better
In the US there are bleaching agents in white paper. Putting it directly on soil nearly killed my Avocado plant and yellowed my squash plants. Use newspaper instead. Maybe giving enough time, the poison would bleach out, but I am done with shredded paper and got rid of my entire compost bin's paper. I have unlimited coffee grounds and leaves and wood ash.
for kitchen scraps can u put chicken bones or any bones along with vegetable cuttings?
how many litres is ur thumbler compost bin btw?
How well do you think these are being broken down in the ink in th paper?
Are any of these used in ink there?
Nitric Acid
Sulphuric Acid
Hydroquinone
Isocyanate prepolymers
Methacrylates
Ammonium
Ketones
Perchloroethylene
Sodium hypochlorite
Methyl ethyl ketone
Benzene
Methanol
Lead Dust/Fume
Photopolymers
I'd be a bit skeptical about putting paper with ink on it if using it in a vegetable garden. The clean paper would be fine of course.
But what about the chemicals used to make paper???