Discovering Hidden Sources of Compost
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Compost is decayed organic material used as a fertilizer for growing plants. There are many different recipes and procedures for making it. However, nature also makes compost. All we have to do is discover it. In this video, I describe some hidden sources of compost that you can use in your garden or farm. The great thing about it is that it is free and you do not have to work to make it.
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All that vegetation in your backyard looks like a great source for beginning a compost pile just by keeping it trim. lol Good video. I like your method of using what you have; it's how nature would do it. One gardener said (paraphrased) 'In nature, the tree or plant gets to keep what it produced and in turn feeds it for the next year. But in gardening, the gardener takes all the produce and the plants don't get a nutrient feed from the leftovers, so it has to be replenished." He also used dried leaves under compost.
That's a great quote! Thanks for sharing it. You are right about the biomass in the background as a good source of compost and I am using it. However, we just came out of a very severe drought. Two weeks ago, it all looked like a desert! That's why I did not have any compost. I have some started, but I really wanted to get going with the garden bed, so instead of waiting, I used the compost source in the eves. Thanks for commenting :)
Thanks for the video. What a luxury it would be to just have a 20 yard truck deliver some perfectly made compost to the farm! We have to make our own as well. We do have a source of wood chips, so we are setting up our animal systems, (chicken, sheep, and guinea pigs) to produce compost from the wood chips. I would love to hear your ideas about making a good third world seed starting mix.
Yes! It would be great to have a good source of compost that could be delivered right to our door. But, right now, that is just a fantasy :). We cannot even get wood chips. Like in other places around the world, branches are fairly regularly trimmed here to protect transmission lines, but unlike other places, the crews that do it just throw the cut branches on your property. I have a small woodchipper that I use to clean up the mess, but it does not compare to getting an entire load of chips dumped on your property for free. And that is another thing. We never could get them for free here anyway and the price would steadily increase once people knew that we wanted them. Oh well. Such is life. :) Can you elaborate a little more about your seed starting? I'm not sure that I know what you mean. Thanks for commenting!
@@linalitafarm I am building a market garden on the farm. I start most of my plants in 72 cell and 128 cell trays, then plant them out into permanent no-till beds. The soil I am using in the trays is 2/3 sifted compost, and 1/3 perlite, which I can get in Quito at a hydroponics supply business. I am not very happy with the performance of this mix. I don't seem to get very good root development, then the soil tends to fall apart when I pop the plants out of the trays. Peat moss is not available here. Ecuador grows a lot of coconuts, but I have not found a source of coco coir. I have tried chopped banana tree fiber, which seemed to help some, but haven't found an efficient way to chop it.
I am going to post a video soon about using the tree Gliricidia sepium to do exactly what you are talking about. Do you have it there? The method I will share might not solve all of your problems, but it should help. Watch for the video.
@@linalitafarm Sorry I did not respond sooner. I was also traveling and also went to a beach. We do have Gliricidia sepium here. I don't have many on my farm, but my neighbors do, so I can get plenty of cuttings to start my own. I look forward to your video on the topic.
Good. I hope that you enjoyed your travels. The video about G. sepium will be published soon, probably within the next two weeks.
I never allow my yard man to use the leaf blowing on my yard because of the nutrients that the grass clippings put back into the yard and green it up. Even if the cut grass does go brown for a few days when it dies. I couldn't care less. I feed a lot of feral cats and don't like putting chemicals into my yard to treat the grass.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I will have a video coming out in a few days that talks about the benefits of allowing leaves to sit where they fall. Please consider subscribing so that you do not miss it. :)