What if I told you your compost should actually smell GOOD?? In this video, we bust the top 5 myths and misconceptions about composting and by the end you will be armed with the info you need to build the ULTIMATE compost pile!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Intro
00:18 – Myth 1: Compost Smells Bad
01:22 – Myth 2: Compost Attracts Bugs & Pests
02:29 – Myth 3: You Have To Follow Specific Recipe
03:13 – Myth 4: Compost Takes Too Long
04:39 – Myth 5: Compost Kills Weed Seeds
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Composting is simple. Find a spot in your garden and start throwing organic waste into it. I usually start with grass clippings then veggie peels. I'll also add twigs, leaves, basically any and every sort of organic plant matter I come across. The trick is to make sure that everything is cut up into as small a piece as possible to quicken decomposition. I add a little water as this heats up quicker than when dry. As for aerating, I do it whenever I remember to, honestly. The bugs and microbes do most of that any way. And voila, gym supplements for plantaking is available indefinitely
I love the Berkeley method. It a learning curve, but once you have made one successful compost pile, you are pretty much a pro.
1:37 1 linear yard is 3 linear feet. 1 square yard is 9 square feet. 1 cubic yard is 27 cubic feet.
Good video…nice to see there are other people on the internet that don't stress over their compost pile…my only thing is I have never been able to make enough compost for my needs…but what I do make…garden gold! I love my leaf compost! Let those leaves fall…rake them up into a pile in the early spring and then by the middle of July it is teeming with worms and microbes…I do it all on a patch of blacktop that used to be a driveway with no edges…it's like magic 😉
So…..these things are actually all true
No food waste = no rats.
i have a tip for people, Time Will Pass! So invest in it! its something we often don’t acknowledge and so “compost takes too long!” the time will pass anyways! if you have the hour to do it, or the 2 hours to set up a slow low maintenance set up then you should, especially if its not a financial stress at all. Invest your time and in your time❤
We pit compost all our kitchen scraps and fish carcasses using a posthole digger (and deep holes to keep raccoons from digging it up). It breaks down in one to four weeks depending on the temperature. After a year of doing that in a 10×10 foot plot, the soil which started out being quite sandy is really nice. Logs and sticks go at the bottom of raised beds and take a few years to break down.
What exactly does greens and browns mean? Are greens live, and browns dead plants?
That was rad.
2:53 Mind blown meme would have been perfect there.
how do you heat up the compost?
Is the earth just once giant compost pile? Timestamp: 1:47
1 cubic yard is 27 cubic ft
On my small balcony in a temperate climate, i use two 20L buckets with holes drilled in them, throw abouuuut equal food scraps and leaves/paper in them, and then leave them in the sun and forget about them. 3-4 months later i have compost. I dont even ever turn them haha 😂 if it ever gets smelly i just throw some browns on top. Has worked fantastically.
I just wanted to know can I just put weeds grass and leaves in it ? I bought one to get that waste out of my yard and try to be eco friendly .. idk what to do 😅
Help!!!!! I have an aloe (and more) that have been eaten alive by scale insects. Can I put that material into a compost bin or will this re infect my future pots?
Is the green/brown ratio by weight or volume? And will paper shreddings work as browns?
I just wack organic matter in the bin over 1 year. And then leave for 3 years
I do my composting in a rain barrel. I never drilled holes but I do leave it open and put the lid on when it rains. Last year I left it open and it rained for 2 days. It stunk really bad. I threw in a bunch of dry dirt and mixed it. A few weeks later I just threw it in my garden. I had my best harvest in tomatoes, cucumbers, etc and i had the same amount of plants as i did for the past several years. I ran out of people to give them to. It worked better for me
Nature has been composting a long time. I like the mostly hands of approach.
Would a compost pile benefit from added worms, maybe purchased online?
3 cubic feet is nowhere near one cubic yard, it's closer to 0.1 of a cubic yard. The container you showed looks more like 27 cubic feet, or one cubic yard. I think what you meant was a 3 foot cube*. 3 *cubic feet would be TINY for composting lol
How do you heat compost to high heat like 130°?
Whats new in it, all these information are very common and normal.. it maybe a click bait
How do you raise the temp?
My wife found a dual barrel compost tumbler at a thrift store for $0.50. It was in almost new condition. We've been using it for about 8 years now. We only recently started gardening. In previous years, we just worked it into our terrible clay soil in the yard. Now I've taken to gardening and of course I use it in our beds. We collect tissues and cardboard and paper and then we have a compost pot under the sink for food waste. When the pot is full I go out and pour it into one of the tumblers. We get tons of black soldier fly larvae. It's creepy when looking in during the summer because it's dark inside the barrels, but there are so many larvae, it just kind of looks like this single moving mass. Makes grade A compost. Black as night.
Living in Sweden, that dark cold mysterious country somewhere up in the north, i of course use compost.
Have two insulated composts:
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Fill one with waste from kitchen and other smaller waste from garden. When it is full, i go for the other one. When that is full, the first one is done.
How do i take care of it?
It is placed on the ground where there is soil (maggots). And then i start it with a few centimeters of soil in the bottom.
Then throw in stuff. Banana peel, orange peel, stalks and all kind of shit.
In rare cases i pour on water if it happens to be to dry.
That's it.
Nothing more.
When finished i remove one side and start digging out. Some parts might not be totally done depending on what it was but i sift it through a screen (my grand dad built decades ago – two handles on each side, a net in the middle with walls around, fill it, and two persons rock back an forth)
What is sifted out goes back in the compost again. Mostly it is sticks and stuff like that. Eventually it will be gone.
Then i have a larger one with pallets, EU size, and two by two (long edge). There i throw in bigger shit and can also be weed in some cases. It will last for years before full.
Leaves in the autumn i put on the soil in my growing areas. Then turn it down the following spring.
Sticks and branches i let my garden monster from Bosh (https://www.bosch-diy.com/imagestorage/sv-se/kompostkvarn-2680158-hires-png-rgb-oneux-397033_w_1600_h_800.png) eat and it makes nice little chunks that also go on the growing areas and on bushes and stuff.
Nothing to waste.
I don't mind weeds. Pull them out they aerate the soil, lay them on the surface they add to the mulch layer.
Do not let them seed.
Doesn't 1 cubic yard equal 9 cubic feet, not 3? Otherwise great video!
If my compost isn't completely broken down but I need it, I use it as a mulch on the veg beds. It carries on breaking down on the bed then and just becomes part of the soil eventually.
3 cubic feet is only one third of a cubic yard. Cubic means cube shaped, so 3 feet by 3 feet or 9 cubic feet total….
We've been composting for years at work, and just what creeps out of the piles with the help of worms raises the ground level around them – by over a foot for up to ten feet away from the piles in ten years. It's beautiful new soil and the worms level it off so we don't even notice it until it buries things, then we scrape it up and move it to where it's needed.
Every community garden ever
1 cubic yard isn’t 3 cubic feet. 1 cubic yard is 27 cubic feet.
my friend has a restaurant and had drums and she puts all the food that is not eaten. and then she puts in leaves from around the area. and sticks and branches from trees. newspapers and cardboard as well. her restaurant is only open mon – fri. what else can she do to make her compost work better?
My compost turned into
Mold when I placed some of it on the top of my plant soil, how do I prevent that? (This specifically happened after I added water to my plant).
It also helps the compost to add some horn shavings and crushed natural limestone here and there (no quicklime !). Not sure if this is the correct wording but I think you can get to it somehow.
The most important thing to remember is that compost happens. No matter what. No matter what “recipe” you follow (or lack there of). As long as we’re talking about organic material, it will happen eventually because that’s just nature. So there’s no reason to over think it, especially if you’re doing it for environmental reasons.
The creepy crawlies also make superb compost.
landfill are giant composters
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Life's had a billion years to learn how to work together… Even anaerobic bacteria have a purpose… I have broken into parts of my pile that reek of it, and found MORE red wigglers in it than anywhere else in the pile…
My philosophy is hands off, let nature do its thing… I don't need compost in 14 weeks… I don't need to over manage anything… It works out just fine.
I have a variant on the Johnson/Su that I use… 6' radius, 3'6" high… Simple, on the ground, one 3" air pipe circling the bottom with access to the outside… Load it with everything, anytime, including kitchen scraps, dairy, fats… A year later I have almost two cubic yards of worm casting/leaf mold… Surprisingly effective for very little work. I DO however screen it in the spring when I'm harvesting the compost… Toss back the sticks, branches, stumps, undigested bits of anaerobic parts, all the worms I find… Start again.
My girlfriends mom just throws trash and dog shit under a tree and surprisingly she's grown the largest grape fruits and dragon fruit in the area.