How To Compost In Winter
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- This video is a complete guide / tutorial on Winter Composting. I discuss what compost is, why it is difficult to compost in winter, and what we need to do differently to maintain an active pile all Winter Long.
I have come up with four principles to successfully compost in Winter, and will share them with you discussing each in detail. Lastly at the end of the video I will show two piles I made in the Winter of 2021/2022 from start to finish.
Please use the timeline below for quick links;
Intro - 00:00
What is compost - 02:32
Difficulties composting in Winter - 03:46
Four principles of composting in Winter - 05:35
Alternative green materials for winter compost - 06:20
When is a winter compost pile finished? - 10:42
Review of Winter Compost Process - 11:37
Appendix
Step by step of Winter Pile #1 - 13:05
Step by step of Winter Pile #2 - 19:42
For a huge list of materials to compost (printable) click below;
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For our article on Winter Composting;
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And for a quick reference on what temperatures kill weed seeds, see below;
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Tools/affiliate links:
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Machete for chopping up pumpkins - amzn.to/3eS1kFA
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You have hands down the best composting videos on TH-cam. I watched your other video I think maybe 2 years ago when I first got into composting. I always referred back to that video any time I got confused and watched it multiple times through during my beginning stages of learning. I’ve came along way since then and just wanna say thank you.
All these years later I came back to the composting community on TH-cam to see some winter tips and who do I see but my favorite compost guy lol. You can imagine how excited I was to watch this. Out of all the videos on TH-cam yours always just made the most sense and helped more then others. I don’t think I’d be as good at composting as I am without your content. Its Always a pleasure thanks again.
THANK YOU! I really appreciate it!
Agreed and much appreciated❄️
I made it to the end and enjoyed watching. Great video. This is the first winter I’m composting. I live in Canada , and built 3 piles in the month of November. Mostly leaves, shredded paper, saw dust and planer chips mixed with kitchen scraps , pumpkins and coffee grounds as you say. There was in the first pile several plants and garden clean up also. It’s freezing temps for the last week , but the piles were off to a good start and had built up to core temps of 140 degrees F . I find different opinions on turning winter piles but I’m looking forward to trying to keep it actively going. The 3 piles I have total in volume of approximately 4.5 cubic yards in my large composting bins made of scrap plywood and T posts. I plan on turning and making it into at least 2 piles having already acquired 60 gallons of coffee grounds and 20 gallons of pumpkins so look forward to finished compost by spring. Thanks for sharing your experience and the good info.
Made it to the end. Great tips for the winter composting. Thanks
@dtedder4 you're very welcome. Good luck!
Thank you for not playing loud music, not beating around the bush for the first 10 minutes, talking about what you plan to talk about in the video. Right to the point, very appreciated!!
You are very welcome - good luck with your compost this winter
Thank you for saying that.
My daughter brings me “gifts” from her work. She works for a boba tea cafe. All year I get tea leaves, coffee grounds, and fruit rinds. I hope she never leaves that job! I made it to the end 🎃
Thank you so much - I'm glad you enjoyed the 'appendix'. And that is awesome - you've got a never ending supply of green material!
Made it to the end! On behalf of all the Canadians🇨🇦 watching (and others outside of North America) THANK YOU so much for adding the Fahrenheit to Celsius conversions. 🙏🏾🙏🏻🙏🙏🏿👏🏽👏🏻👏👏🏾
You are very welcome Randall! I understand the pain of unit conversion quite well.
Thrilled to see this because, as I watch this, the pile of pumpkins that have arrived on my drive is growing. I put out a notice on the local face book page and people are only too happy to have somewhere other than the household waste. I also get the coffee grounds and spent hops from the local brewery. When I have the chance I gather seaweed from the beach after a storm and this is a welcome addition to the pile. Love composting, it is a kind of alchemy and also nurtures my maternal sense as I feed the earth and make it happy!
Wow - you are on top of it Victoria! You are going to make one seriously hot pile. Nice work!
Similar tip to hitting up coffee shops for grounds, find any local places with salad bars. They'll usually save the nightly throw-away if you ask them to. Probably have to give them a couple of buckets. A better, but harder one, is if you can get a local Subway to do the same. That's a lot of nightly throw away if you're trying to accumulate a lot of greens.
That is an excellent idea Terri - thank you for sharing. That is really a good suggestion.
Love that idea! Thanks for sharing and happy composting!
Great tip! I will add that if you keep an eye on FB marketplace and those sorts of resources, you can sometimes find *food grade* buckets and lids for really good prices. I pay no more than two-three bucks for 5-gallon pails and a dollar for lids. When food packing companies etc use them, they're only allowed to use them once then they have to sell them or have them carted away somehow. One local source I've gotten such buckets from is a charity group that gets them by the pallet-full and sells them to raise money for their work, so that's a win-win-win. Feels nice.
Firehouse Subs chains sell their pickle buckets and lids for I think 2 dollars - they smell like pickles of course but if that bothers you, scrubbing them with a paste made of baking soda and water removes the vinegar smell. I tried that on a whim and it works, but I don't really think it's neccesary.
Other restaurants may be able to help you find buckets as well as food waste, too.
In contrast to all those sources, the paint pails found at big box stores are not food grade (they actually stink like "chemicals" if you poke your nose in them), they're thin and flimsy, and they cost too much. Tractor Supply Co and similar places do carry new sturdy, food grade buckets, but they want almost six dollars for them, without a lid. I only buy those if I really need a couple right away and don't want to wait till I find a better deal.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 thank you for the great suggestions. I love that we fellow composters and gardeners help each other out with tips like this. I found a Fire house sub near me, so I'm going to check them out for buckets. Happy composting!
@@dogslobbergardens6606 Love your name too. Lol.
Of course I made it till the end... Longer does not mean boring, all your videos are dynamic and educative all the way, well put together with zero "me-me-me" beat-killer content. Thank you for sharing, and hope the algorithm treats you well.
Thank you! Sometimes it treats me really well, sometimes not. But thank you very much for your support!
Great video showing how the compost has been going over time. I love videos like this that show the time lapse and not just instructions and the first shot of what was done.
You are welcome Jeff. I agree with you in regards to the format. By showing the whole process you not only prove that it works, but also give people many more insights and visual tips then they get from just a brief video on pile construction.
I don't know how many times i have watched this video now...
Never get tired of it! 💚
Please give us more composting and mulching videos. You do an excellent job. 👌
Thank you Anna. I will make more videos on composting. It just takes me a long time! But I've got a couple ideas for new ones. I just want to make sure I'm adding some new information, or covering a new aspect.
Made it to the end. I compost all winter too, zone 4b, but we toss our material in a tall (thigh high) garden box. We don't turn. It warms up enough in the spring to thaw and decompose almost completely before it's warm enough to plant anything in the spring.
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Sounds like you've got a good system Mary. Do you just toss kitchen scraps all Winter? Or add other ingredients too?
@@growitbuildit it's mostly kitchen scraps but until freeze up we layer in fallen leaves that we have been collecting. This year I scored dozens of bags of plant debris and old potting soil from an apartment complex that I'm going to layer in too. I have 10 boxes, approx 3ft x 6ft, so I have a lot to keep filled!
Wow! That's a lot of boxes
I too am in South Central PA and just started my first pile a couple of weeks ago. I like the fact that you build your piles on the ground rather than creating bins to hold your piles. Keeping it simple seems easiest. Love your videos and down to earth advice!
Thank you! One should never over-complicate anything, let alone composting.
The amount of effort, and work that you do to produce your TH-cam, and your blog, blow me away. I really appreciate all the work that you, and your wife do to share extremely valuable content. Thank you!
Wow - thank you SO MUCH! I really appreciate it
Yeah, definitely a lot of effort goes into the videos
Made it to the end:) I’m also in Pennsylvania zone 6🥳 you videos are the most useful, easily digestible and down to practice out of everything on TH-cam (and I watched A LOT), thanks a ton for your effort and talent put into this! I’m a first year gardener with many projects in works and in plans, your resources are my manual.
Thank you! I'm very happy you are finding my videos useful. I like to garden 'on the cheap'. And I've gotten to a point that the only time I have to buy something is if I expand and need some fencing or posts, etc. Oh, and perhaps a few bucks in veggie seeds each year. Good luck!
I made it to the end. I'm in zone 5B. This was very informative and easy to understand. Hoping to have a productive compost pile this winter.
@Anette Zamora Thank you so much. And good luck on your pile this Winter!
You don’t save your garden’s seeds?
@Beth H, I do save most of my veggie seeds. But I often try a couple new ones that I buy
Thanks for the foresight and consistency you put into this video. Really appreciate it as another cold winter gardener/composter.
Thank you Kevin - that means a lot. This video was a long time coming. I just wanted to make sure I got out before Halloween so everyone could ask their neighbors for the pumpkins!
Thanks from CO
@Carol Avery you are welcome
I liked the demonstration throughout to the end giving the details and outcome. Almost like participation ourselves.
That is the kind of comment I need to hear to keep doing those full-length, detailed videos. Thank you Thomas.
Made it to the end of the video. Very informative, and I love that you took the time to document many months of composting and not just tell us how to do it. The results are awesome. Thank you.
You are very welcome - and I'm very glad you found it helpful. Good luck this winter!
Coming from your first compost tutorial, this is a huge help! Made it to the end, and what a beautiful compost! Will be asking for pumpkins now from on for this winter!
Pumpkins are amazing - glad to hear you are having success with your tumbler. I've really found that kitchen scraps - in particularly fleshy fruits and vegetables break down the fastest of anything.
This was an amazing video with so much info. I’m also in PA zone 6 and I really needed to see that I’m doing ok with my composting after just 1 year. Thank you for your time and energy making this video so we can all learn. 💜
You are very welcome Ms. Hollister. Good luck this Winter, and composting will just kind of become a way of life for you!
Yes, made it to the end :) I want to say thank you for putting out this super informative video. I have just begun composting, procrastinated for SOO long, but finally took the heap.. I mean leap here in Maryland Zone 8a. I really enjoy how you put all the info out there in a no nonsense way. No hype, just facts. That is much appreciated. And thank you so much for the pumpkin tip, I actually was able to score some from a neighbor ,who wasn't sure what to do with them. So I took them off their hands, helped them, helped me, kept a few more things outta the landfill :) Starbuck's is sort of outta the way for me but I have a couple Dunkin Donuts near by who saved some for me when I brought them a container. They've been super helpful. Thank you again for sharing & for all your hard work.
Thank you - and I am very glad you found it informative and helpful. I try to make fewer videos but of high quality & dense on information. That is really great hearing Dunkin Donuts saves grounds for you. My local one wouldn't do it. And unfortunately the starbucks that I used to get 5-7 bags a week from quit doing it! I still get plenty though, just have to work a bit more. Good luck this winter, with enough coffee grounds, almost any pile can get hot.
I watched your video all the way through and it has been so helpful!! I am just starting out and I had no idea of what to do during winter!! This is amazing!! Thank you for making this!!
You are very welcome Henry - I'm glad I could help you out. Good luck this Winter!
Thank you so much for this video. I watched all the way to the end, twice 😅
This is the most helpful video I’ve watched so far in my mission to learn how to compost. This is exactly what I needed, as I’m almost fully prepared to get started.
Thank you thank you thank you!
Excellent Jordan, thank you so much. And good luck starting your pile!
Really comprehensive and complete video.... best I've found so far. Thanks!
Thank you Diego - good luck starting a pile this Winter!
This is a game changer video. Now I realize that my winter compost pile wasn't big enough. Thanks for the content, I will be headed to starbucks in the morning.
Excellent Krystal - I'm glad I could help you out. Good luck!
I absolutely made it to the end! Fantastic tutorial. So excited to be doing this form of composting. I am building a second compost and I will get back to you on how it goes and probably with questions. I am in zone 6b. I’ve read many of the comments and replied! I usually don’t. Hands down best winter compost video!! Definitely will be using this method and watched to the end! I subscribed 2 minutes into the tutorial and I plan on using your method!! Looking forward to the results!
Excellent Janice! Thank you so much, and I am glad you watched to the end. I really wasn't sure if people would want to see the long appendix or not. Good luck, and perhaps we will have some back and forth later on as you get started.
Hey Joe. I eagerly watched to the very end to see the beautiful compost every step of the way. An analytical person like myself needs detail and you so nicely provided that! Thank you for all your effort and your obvious love of natural gardening. I was very encouraged regarding the coffee grounds from starbucks and the manure for the green as I keep chickens and always have plenty of nitrogen (green)! All I need to do is pick my spot and I plan to get started tomorrow with some yard leaves and chicken manure, as I have plenty of both at the present. And I may be able to score some old rotted pumpkins from some local farms. And I have a machete!!! I bought it on ebay to use to hack overgrown blackberry vines and other brush and it will be perfect! Thank you again!
That sounds excellent Patricia. You've got the greens, which can be challenging in Winter.
Thank you for the kind words,and I'm glad you appreciated all the details. I wasn't sure if people would want the appendix or not, but from what I'm hearing it proved valuable to many.
Good luck this Winter!
I left a comment a year ago. I moved into my new house in December, and never got the compost heated up very hot. However, by spring it was partially-finished and just fine for filling the bottom of my new raised beds! I'm back to review this video and get a refresher. I have a large compost pile that hasn't begun heating up yet (it's mostly leaves, prunings, yard waste, and kitchen scraps). I'm adding urine and will hit the coffee shops!
Thanks for your always-helpful videos. This one is literally reference material for me in the fall!
You are very welcome! Get aggressive with coffee grounds! Green material is the key to keeping it going.
Your compost is just awesome. Zone 6b here.
Glad I'm revisiting your tutorial. I forgot you don't cover compost. Have one cooking now. Will be saving kitchen scraps etc. in 5 gal buckets in the garage temporarily. I'll also save veggie cooking water that's filtered 'cause we have city water. Hope your garden was generous to you and family this past year.
Thank you - we had a good year in the garden. The tomatoes suffered from drought, but we still had plenty.
This is an outstanding video! I have been struggling with composting for 2 years here in NC and am excited to try this over the winter. Your details in the video and on your website are fantastic. Love the extensive list of materials to use.
You are very welcome Kim! I'm glad I could help you out. It's amazing how many free resources are out there for composting!
Love your videos and explanation of the process. I’ve learned how I can improve my summer composting and next winter I’ll be ready to try your method of winter composting. I made it to the end of your video and look forward to future videos so I can learn more!
Excellent - I'm happy you are finding value in my videos Lynne. It helps inspire me to make more and maintain them to a high quality.
Made it to the end. Gotta see the finished product. I am fortunate enough that we have a brewery a few miles away and they give out spent grains otherwise they have to pay to have them hauled away. I take a 5 gallon bucket and they fill it for me. I dig a hole in the center of the pile, just like you, and dump the whole thing in the middle. The pile heats up like crazy. You only need to flip it a few times over the next few weeks to spread the grains around and aerate. I also cover with a sileage tarp held down by rocks and bricks. That also helps keep some heat in and rain and snow from washing away the compost. Keep making videos like this. Thanks
Thanks John - glad you found it helpful. The brewery sounds like one heck of a resource to have nearby.
What an eye opener this has been. I though I knew how to compost but I've been doing it all wrong.
I'm glad I could help you. Really there is not 'wrong' way to compost, as long as you are just piling up organic matter to break down. There are just different methods that work faster than others. Everything becomes compost given enough time.
Pleasant and comprehensive video (listened on 1.5x speed :). I started composting last spring and it's going swimmingly. Now, thanks to this vid, going into winter composting with no worries. Thanks!
Thanks Monk! Smart for listening to 1.5x speed. I do the same! Good luck this Winter!
Made it to the end!! Thank you for taking time to com-PILE (😅) this from last year for THIS year's content! I'm in a much warmer state but this gives me a great starting point for winter work! ✌🏻
Thank you! I'm very happy you enjoyed it and I am very happy that you can see the amount of film/time/ and editing to put this one together - it was a doozy. I wasn't sure if people would find the appendix valuable or not, but it appears that everyone is - so that makes it worth it. Good luck on your piles!
@@growitbuildit I appreciate your foresight on this and other topics. It's much more helpful when viewers can see whole processes from start to finish in a 15- or 30- minute session, rather than waiting for months, or having to find and wade through several different videos. Keep up the good work!
Love this! Funny how I can get so excited about watching compost videos! It helps me get through the cold weather. I actually fall asleep sometimes thinking about my warm compost decomposing! I have been trench composting for years, I used to have a huge compost pile but it got too big to manage. I just bought a Subpod and am happy so far with how it is working. I live in NY and just started it 2 weeks ago. Who knew I'd be digging in my garden in January in NY? Tomorrow I will be heading to Starbucks, not for a lousy, overpriced cup of coffee! I have been adding my own grinds for years and always wondered if it was helpful. I figure the worms got a caffeine boost when they get into them. Pumpkins, who knew, I could enjoy the machete part! My husband has a couple of those infrared thermometers in the garage, another great tip! Thanks so much for the info!
That is excellent- I'm glad I could help you out. And I'm very happy I gave you new ideas for resources
That is excellent- I'm glad I could help you out. And I'm very happy I gave you new ideas for resources
You are a great teacher of the garden.
Thank you Very Much Lanette! Glad you are finding my videos helpful!
Yes, I learned a lot! I finished and will probably rewatch!
I have read and heard so much conflicting information about composting and you helped me figure out what I need to do with the resources I have access to! Thank you.
Thank you Kathy! I'm glad I could help you out. I try to keep it as simple as possible for the composting process. But once you have finished a couple piles, you start seeing compost material everywhere! And you learn your own little techniques and tricks. Good luck!
I made it to the end and am so glad that you showed all your hard work. It gave me some good ideas for keeping my pile hot all winter long and sourcing greens!
Excellent Anne - I'm glad you found the appendix helpful! Good luck this Winter on your pile!
All the way to the end: twice! Wow. Thank you!
Twice!?! Thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying it.
I'm in OK zone 7b and this was supremely helpful! Especially about the Starbucks program that I was not aware of. I had went in to my local on and asked them to save me grounds and I would pick them up weekly but when I went in, the person I talked to must not have communicated that. They told me they don't do that. I was a little bummed but just used the material I had available. While watching this video, I thought "hmmm, let me call the closest one in the closet bigger city". And they sure did have a nice big fat bag for me to pick up. And on my way out of my little town, there was a gigantic pumpkin on the curb for the taking! All praises to the Most High. Thanks for posting up this video to help us small gardeners out. 🙂
Also, the video was very thorough and easy to follow as well as understand.
That is awesome! I'm glad I could help you out. I've been finding recently that calling the Starbucks the day before helps - they will save the entire day's grounds for you. So on days when I go to the office I just try to swing back through to pick them up.
And put the word out to your neighbors that you want the pumpkins - they are usually happy to have someone to pick them up. I use an old plastic tote/tub in my trunk. It is helpful because sometimes the neighbors wait until the pumpkins are fairly rotten....
@@growitbuildit Gonna do that! Appreciate it.
Made it to the end with no problem. I just recently found your channel and really enjoy the depth that you put into your videos. You also show the complete project from start to finish. I find myself going to your channel and website more all the time for info on gardening projects that I have been doing for years (always learning!) Thanks again
Excellent - I'm glad you are finding the info useful. Good luck!
Thank you for your videos!They are very helpful for a me as a new composter. I managed to get three smaller piles finished over the summer and used them to top dress my garden!
I was just wondering if I could continue over the winter here in Michigan. Since I started this spring with the help of your beginner video, I just can’t stand throwing away things I know I could compost!
Loved the tips on the pumpkins (I was wondering about those), collecting coffee grounds and the five gallon buckets outside.
Thanks again,
~A Happy Composter
I’m in Michigan also and I’ve been wanting to start a fall/winter compost for next spring. What area of the state are you in?
That is awesome Kara - glad to here you've been doing well & making some compost. Good luck this Winter & I hope you can get a lot of pumpkins!
First time watching your channel. What a great video! You put a lot of work into creating a time lapse of your work. That's a labor of love right there! Thank you so much for sharing your method and posting this video. You've got a new sub.
I'm in Zone 7A, but I live alone and generate very little kitchen scrap. Your suggestion about pumpkins is brilliant.
At nearly age seventy and a female, I still build a pile every winter, no matter what. The reason I do this is because years ago, I had unintentionally started piling up yard debris, mostly leaves, and the remnants of that year's garden.
I live in an area of extreme drought and never watered or turned that pile, yet the following spring, when I decided to dig into that pile, I discovered it had decomposed into beautiful compost, and the unforgiving ground beneath it was teeming with earthworms.
Sometimes, life hands you random blessings.
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful, and hopefully you now have a few more sources of green material you can obtain. Never slow down gardening - it will keep you young! Keep it up!
Thanks my garden interns will love this video!
You're welcome Jackie. Who are your 'interns'?
Superb content and production. Thanks for what you do.
Thank you afrocraft! I appreciate the kind words.
I made it to the end. Lol. Good video. Working on getting Mr to buy in and produce our compost. Thank you for the great tutorial
Thank you Michelle! I'm glad you found it helpful! And extra thank you for making it to the end!
Your technique is great and has encouraged us to try it! Yes we watched all the way to the end. I like how fast you present the info. No time hemming and hawing around! Zone 7b here, ready to give your technique a try.
Thank you Susan! Good luck this Winter. Just remember - be aggressive with gathering materials!
Great video! Thank you for all the info!
Enjoyed your video, easy to follow!
Thank you! I'm glad it was clear.
Thanks for this. We’ve been dumping our grass and other yard waste in a pile for years but never truly “compositing”but now that my yard is a monarch butterfly waystation, I want to properly compost to maintain my pollinator gardens. Im in SE Nebraska zone 5. Love the Starbucks tip!!!!! We have 21 hens so we have lots of pine shavings and poop!! Didn’t know about the special treatment needed for it though so that’s good to know
Hello! The chicken manure might (or often, I'm not sure) contain Salmonella and other pathogens. So, if you aren't using the compost on your food crops you might be fine. Otherwise, the USDA has guidelines on how hot the compost needs to get to kill it, or how early you should apply it so that any pathogen is starved.
Thanks so much for all the info! Great job. I have been composting only for a couple summers now but live in zone 6 also and can't wait to give it a go this winter. Thank you again! And yes I watched until the end.
Thank you Sylvia! I'm happy to hear that so many watched to the end. I really wasn't sure if people wanted to see the 'step by step' composting process. But go find some Starbucks, and good luck composting this Winter!
Exactly the information I need and at just the right time too. Yes, I watched all the way to the end. I will definitely be on the lookout for discarded pumpkins now. Good to know!
You are very welcome Ann! I'm very happy you found it helpful. When I take my kids around on Halloween, I ask various neighbors if they will text me when their pumpkins are starting to rot, then I show up with my wheelbarrow.
Thank you so much for this video. (And yes of course I made it to the end! 😉)
I had a hard summer. Garden didn’t do as well and I’m thinking it was the soil. So I decided that this winter I would be learning as much as possible about it which of course includes composting.
Built a bin to contain compost not too far from the house for my “classroom” and quickly realized winter temps would be a problem (DUH!) so, very timely that your video came up today.
I had decided to give up on outdoor composting but now I’m more excited for winter and learning about soil.
Sounds good Caydance - I hope my videos and experience can help you out. I highly suggest you look into using some leaf mulch, as that has been the single best thing I've done to my soil. See here - th-cam.com/video/kyYpGNZOCwE/w-d-xo.html
Awesome video! Made it to the end. You have great structure to your videos so it is dead easy to follow along. Much appreciated!
Thank you Owen! I'm very happy you enjoyed it and appreciate the kind words. I like to keep them structured and well ordered, as sometimes it's easy to get lost on complicated topics.
Made it to the end. The best showing how to do it!!
Thank you Connie! Good luck this Winter.
Totally made it to the end of the video. This is amazing. Great job!
Thank you Nick! I'm glad you found it interesting.
I made it to the end🎉
Thank you Carl! I wasn't sure if the 'video appendix' would be valuable to people.
I found your explanation clear & concise, by the way! I wish I had more property.
You're not as cold as I am, here in Minnesota, but, WOW! I never would have thought you could still HOT compost in the winter!
Make the piles big and you can keep it going all Winter long!
Great video. Made it to the end. Appreciate how you explain the entire process.
You are very welcome Chip. I'm very glad you enjoyed it!
What fantastically useful info to watch & rewatch & watch again!
Thank you so much. Your a blessing to our gardens!
Thank you so much Linda! Good luck this Winter!
Thank you for showing us the complete process!! This was very useful!!
You are very welcome Diane, I'm glad you found it helpful!
Glad to say, my pile is finally heating up after watching! now at 120F. making the pile larger made a difference.
Excellent - glad to hear you are getting some high temperatures Kevin
Highly informative. Made it to the end. Kind of fascinating watching the piles being turned.
Thank you Brian. It feels really good to turn a steaming pile in the dead of winter. Especially when everything is silent outside, and you have you own 'natural furnace' in your backyard.
Great video watched the whole thing. Clear, concise, to the point, no filler, no fluff, loved the video. Keep it up.
Thank you Roberto! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I made it to the end of this video :) I appreciate all the detailed information you provided. Also watching the full timeline of what you've done will help me manage my expectations for my own compost pile. Thanks a bunch!
You are very welcome Emilia - I'm glad you found it helpful!
as someone who lives in florida, i see an absolutey win
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Thank you so much for this video! The best one i have found. Clear, no nonsense instructions and approach. Great work👌
You are very welcome - I'm glad you found it helpful. Good luck getting your Winter compost pile going!
Great little video! I'm ready to get started on my winter compost project and look forward to building up my garden this year! Thanks for sharing
Excellent - good luck Ryan!
Made it to the end and it was very informative. I don't have the money to buy soil so I am composting in my garden and in my containers. It is only December 17, 2023 so it will be interesting to see how it turns out by spring.
I'm glad you found it helpful - good luck with your winter compost!
Made it to the end!!! I love watching the time lapse of the whole procedure of composting. Im learning to be a garden 🤓 nerd. I love my gras clipping and leaves from. My lawn and I get tons of it! I also use our kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, egg cartons and shredding old paperwork. Thanks for the video and confidence boosts!
You are very welcome Rhonda - glad I could inspire you. Just be aggressive about accumulating those greens for the coming Winter piles.
Yess watched it to the end as always. Love your videos and all the detail. Every year mulch up my grass and leaves with the lawn mower and put it on my garden at the end of the growing season. Love the leaves and pile them in a circular fence for leaf mold. There also good as a filler in the bottom of my pots in the spring so you don't need as much soil.
Thank you Nora! I agree with your strategy! Everyone should be using every bit of organic matter for helping their plants, whether it is a flower pot on a porch or a vegetable garden.
Excellent video - clear, concise and to the point! Thank you!
Thank you Wayne - glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you made it to the end ! Super informative.
Thank you - I'm glad you found it helpful!
Oh yea, I watched the whole video! You done a wonderful job! 👍
Thank you - good luck starting your pile this winter!
Made it to the end!!!! Your videos are extremely helpful to me and my partner who are new to composting. Thank you for the simple and helpful tips/methods.
Thank you! I'm glad you are finding them helpful.
I made it to the end. Thank you for all of the information and encouragement.😊
Excellent - thank you for the kind words and good luck this winter!
Made it all the way to the end!
Thank you soo much - I needed this 🙏
You are very welcome - good luck starting your winter pile!
Made it to the end! :-) I'm new to composting this year, so this was really helpful info. I didn't know you could compost in the winter. Great info on the pumpkins and coffee grounds! Just need to find a good place for a couple outdoor piles. Thanks so much for the great video!!
You are very welcome Nancy! I'm very happy you enjoyed it. Good luck on starting your pile!
Hi
I so appreciated your information and approaches, certainly such a commitment. Love it.
I live in zone six also, yet at near 7000' elevation. I'm going to continue my current pile as far into winter as possible for now. Being that we had nearly 50' of snowfall last winter, theres only so many hours in the day😉 Your experience and wisdom are very helpful and encouraging for wintwrs with less snowfall. If and when we reach the point of too much snow to tend a pile, I will store kitchen scraps as you said they can remain stable untill Spring when I can properly utilize them.
My garden and I appreciate you, thank you from the Sierra Neavada as Winter is surely approaching.....
Thank you Tarapoe! I'm glad I could help you out. You definitely have some challenges at 7000' that I don't have at my measly 900'!
The Sierra Nevada are beautiful mountains - you live in a beautiful part of the country.
I made it to the end and I loved it. This was great.
Cool - I'm glad you liked it DJ
Thank you very much. Yes, watched to the end.
You are very welcome and I'm glad you found it helpful!
Best composting video ever! Thank you
You are very welcome Nikki! I'm very happy you found it helpful! Good luck!
I found me some pumpkins today!
Nice! Keep on the lookout
I love the thermodynamics equation you included. I knew there was something special about this channel.
You are very welcome! I didn't focus on the formula too much, but just wanted to show that a larger temp difference means more energy is transferred. I figured everyone would know it intuitively, but seeing an actual formula helps.
Of course I watch to the end when it's such a great video!
For a compost-nerd it can't get any better. 😁 Thanks!
Thank you Anna! I'm right there with you as a compost nerd. I've actually taken veggie scraps away from family members holiday meals!
@@growitbuildit 😂😂😂💚
Yes, I made it to the end. Thanks, very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it Tom
I actually made it to the end. Thanx for the vid, helpful tips which will aid in my composting this winter.
Thank you Rich, I appreciate it! Good luck on your pile this winter!
Made it to the end 😊 very informative. I love everything about composting
I love composting too (in case you couldn't tell)
Made it to the end! Thx for for the easy to follow info. Started my first compost pile this fall in anticipation of having a raised bed garden in the spring. You answered a lot of questions I needed to know the answers to. I am so excited to start my first gardening experience.Thx so much,
Excellent Saundra - I'm glad you found it helpful. Good luck on your pile and your new garden this Spring!
I made it to the end! I’m new to gardening and I was looking for months on how to compost cheaply without a tumbler! Fun fact: I’m in Lancaster county, PA! Anyway, amazing details and I learned all the way until the end of this. I’m excited to start building my pile this weekend. ❤
Excellent - good luck getting started Katherine! You should also look at my leaf mulch videos....they have made a HUGE improvement to my soil.
Made it,enjoyed it, thank you for your time!!!
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful
Yeah! Made it to the end! Very informative! I’m trying this for the first time. Very happy to have found this!
Excellent Robert - good luck this Winter!
Thanks for making such a great effort to actually show the whole process of composting. So I made it to the end only because you made this process interesting. Thank you!
Thank you Kaye - I'm really glad you found it helpful. I wasn't sure if people would want to see a long video appendix or not. Glad you enjoyed it - good luck this Winter!
Love this info and video! Thank you!
You are very welcome - good luck this winter!
WONDERFUL! Yes, I watched every kind tip you shared till the end. Very helpful and inspiring. Thank you! 🌨 🍃
You are very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Yes I watched the whole thing - Thank you, very informative and interesting!
Thank you Annette! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Watched the whole video. Extremely informative, thank you!
Thank you! I'm very happy I could help you out. Good luck starting your winter pile!
Great and very informative! Yes I watched the whole thing and plan on watching it again in the future to keep information fresh.
Excellent - I'm glad I could help you out!
To the end! I'm a beginner and this has been incredibly valuable for me, i appreciate it.
You are very welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!
Great info on winter composting. Thank you.
Thank you Drew!
What an interesting and educational video. I did watch it till the end. This will for sure help me keep my pile going during winter. Thank you
You are very welcome Diego! I'm glad you found it helpful, and good luck to you this Winter!