Making & Using RICH Chicken Compost to Plant Garlic + MORE!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I show you how our chickens made the best compost fertiliser then we use it in the garden to plant garlic and top up other raised garden beds such as raspberries and mint.
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G'day Everyone, Plastic Forests: This is the company that makes the plastic sheeting in rolls used to make our chicken compost ring plasticforests.com.au/ I believe the key to solving our plastic problem is to make recycling all types of plastic easy for everyone and attractive for businesses. Plastic Forests have pioneered eco-friendly ways to recycle soft plastics (once thought to be impossible to do) - that is the kind of technology and small business ingenuity I love to see! Cheers :)
I’m absolutely with you in recycling Mark. If I were a world leader it would be a focus. Recycle, recycle, recycle.
Mark is that a brush-tailed possum at the end of the video? hmmm
Interesting creature. Australian version of a possum?
Sometimes it seems like Australia landed on Earth from another planet with all of the exotic animals you Aussies have over there. ; ) Even the name Australia is exotic sounding.
Cheers to a bumper crop of garlic and a productive garden this year and the next.
Do chickens always or ever have a Lice or other "pest" problem associated with them and would you have knowledge on that?
Is there a possibility for chemicals to leech into the soil or the foods you grow in the the galvanized tin or the plastic container sides? I've heard that treated wood is not good to use because of the chemicals leeching into the foods so it seems any man made products could do the same.
Would love to see this product in the USA.
How cool are chickens. Hanging out with them is quite therapeutic
What's your channel about?
they suck. they stink and shit all over the place. if you don't live in a sub-tropical climate you need a heated space to keep them. it's over rated hoohaa like most of marks BS.
Oh shoot, it's Andy! I see you comment all the time on Rod's (RokKit Kit's) channel and I enjoyed your crossover with him. (Which is how I got introduced to your channel.) Good to see you, man.
king james488 It sounds like you should be watching different sort of videos
Flaming Basketball Club I do adventure catching cooks with overnight trips but I also like Permaculture fruit trees and gardening
Mark, I hope your garlic grows like a champion in that chicken compost fertilizer mix. 👍
Love how the girls all came running when you put the food scraps in
It was hilarious when he swayed to the side, and we got a peek of a chicken sprinting for the munchies lol
@@dethmaul I enjoyed that too
@@dethmaul That chicken was sprinting like she was in the Olympics. LMAO
@@TheFourthWinchester lol
@@dethmaul I literally laughed out loud
You bring a bit of sanity, into this insane world....THANK YOU.
So cool they hear the dumping of scraps and the girls came a running! Really have enjoyed watching your videos even the older ones..
I like how your "work crew" came running. Great video
Leftover coffee and coffee grounds made my garlic grow at an astonishing rate.
yes coffee is a great for compose
Everyone talks about coffee grounds for compost but I’m a tea drinker.
I have loads of tea leaves but there is little info on using it for compost.
What info there is is rather dismissive, saying it doesn’t impart many nutrient.
I’m puzzled by that because I can’t see why tea leaves would not be similar to any plant material in what it give back to the soil.
I use it any way but wish there was more reliable data. I would think coffee grounds would be more acidic at any rate.
With that chicken compost, I reckon a "how to grow a tonne of garlic" video coming down the track.
What's fun is growing it and eating it, what isn't fun is peeling it and processing it.
You mean reckon. Recon is short for reconnaissance.
Let's hope so! ;)
Loved when the chickens came running when you emptied the scraps out in the compost tub!
I am super excited I found your channel. I want to move into my own house and have my own giant garden one of these days. I want to be self-sufficient on my food and on my energy so I dont have to rely on any government or anyone else. You truly give me motivation i lack.
I love the chooks all running up as you empty in the food scraps.
I hope that garlic gives you a bumper crop.
I never realized how badly we need a SSM music video until that intro music hit. The dad jokes, sweet dance moves, there’s just so much potential...
Ha ha ha, I totally agree. And when he wheeled that wheel barrow in fast motion I thought of Yakkity Sax (Benny Hill theme).
I love growing garlic in my indoor and outdoor garden! I like to set aside the smallest cloves from the kitchen to plant them. I love grazing on and continuously harvesting the garlic greens!
I'm in the middle of an extended Covid break with lots of time to refresh my knowledge bank with good TH-cam material. I keep finding myself coming back again and again to your videos as much for the pleasant experience as for the fantastic expertise. Thank you so much for providing this gift. I've become a real fan of your material. I hope you keep it coming.
_"That'll all break down in the bed."_
#relatable
Mark I know your garlic and everything else you plant will grow like the champion you are! Please stay safe and keep well everyone!!!
5:55 watch the red hen right up the back near the coup come rushing as soon as you lift the container! she's switched on to the coming goodies long before the others realise
I love how your chickens come running when you go to that compost circle! It’s adorable!
You’re an absolute blessing! It’s wonderful to hear your calm, encouraging videos on gardening & homesteading! ☺️
Fantastic! Here in SA, we traditionally plant our garlic on/after Anzac Day, so it won't be long and I will be well on my way to home grown garlic too :) Love all you do, Maz :)
This is my first year of planting in high garden beds, I needed rich compost and I got it from my aunt. Years of mixed soil with chicken compost and random greens. I watch your channel for knowledge and motivation, I can’t wait for the season!
I planted 20 blackberries, 43 strawberries, peach, apricot, lettuce and some spices. Now I'm waiting time for tomatoes. Thanks a lot, you have a great channel!
G'day Gordan, all the best with your new raised bed garden! Cheers :)
Those chickens looked so happy when you started shaking the bucket!
It was hilarious to watch the chickens and ducks come running as soon as they heard the new batch of scraps being dumped into the compost ring. 👍👍
Really good video Mark, I watched the whole thing. I love learning gardening from you, cause you carefully explain things right. Here in Ontario our snow is melted and I’ve started my seeds indoors. Once it warms up I’ll be building my Massive Ultimate Veggie Garden complete with fencing to keep the critters out. I was wondering what to do with all my chickens and duck muck. I’ll have to let it compost down for a time. My wife wants to grow some garlic cause it’s getting so expensive, but I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t realize it’s so easy just get some cloves and plant em eh. Thanks for what you do. Chad in Ontario, Canada.
I think I've said this before, but you rock. Shout out from Texas
Straight up incredible the difference in the colour of the ground from when you first started the chicken compost brown to now green
It helps that we've had weeks and weeks of constant rain!
I love how the chickens come runnin' for the "treat" :)
I absolutely love your videos! Discovering your channel at the beginning of January was the best part so far of 2021. I've learned so much from watching your videos and you are definitely a great role model. Keep up the great work, Mark! Also, I hope that your garlic grows like a champion!
I discovered his channel last month thanks to TH-cam recommendations
Thank you Dawn! Cheers :)
Cheers. I've got some beds denettled with a little electric tiller. It's worked really well for the thickness of the nettle roots.
I've got some duck manure from putting hay in their beds to mix in along with some hen crap then I'm set to plant. I'm probably leaving a bit late but I've had no choice as finding a gardener these days to help is almost impossible. I love garlic and onions and they should grow well along with potatoes and other things.
I haven't seen anyone comment about this but I was told that you should put the bulbs in a bag full of compost in the freezer for about 3 weeks if you are growing in spring or don't get freezing temps in winter. This ensures that your garlic produces bulbs with segments. Apparently you can get bulbs which are just one giant clove without any segments if they are not exposed to some freezing temperatures.
Love how the chickens race for the kitchen scraps @5:56
Here in the Northeast United States we plant our garlic in October. It's the first thing to come up in Spring and it grows really well. I've got to say you are the king of raised beds
big thumbs up for you. and Marc, i hope you will have a lot of garlic. greetings from Holland👍👍💪. btw, love you're videos🤗
LOL... Thank you Hendrik! Cheers :)
something about good soil just makes me happy.
Your content is very inspiring, relaxing, educational, therapeutic, and the dry humour is great. Keep it up!!
Love it! The only thing I wish that was easier was making your own mulch. It's always such a chore!
I make mulch out of wood chips, and I don't have to do any work with it. The tree company dumps off a large load of wood chips in the spring, and I let it sit. A year later I have a big pile of great mulch for the gardens, just as the tree company is dumping another large load of wood chips to start breaking down for next year.
🤷Just pick weeds or mow the grass, then throw it on/leave it on top of your beds between the plants
@@haplo_84 Here in the sub-tropics you have to be very careful using fresh grass clippings as they can form a dense mat in our hot wet summers and this can invite pests and diseases and prevent water penetration. You can, however, use a light sprinkling as a fertilizer and part mulch as long as you can still see the soil below.
If you have a weed free lawn, just use lawn clippings and you won't put any weed seeds in to your veg. garden it breaks down into compost eventually
You can pick up dead leaves and crumble them or split them. No need for such complex or pro mulches.
Oh - another chili tip: I myself horizontally trellised (AKA scrog'd) peppers last year. I'm doing it again this year in about 2 months. In your situation, using this technique, you should be able to grow a multi-year chili pepper large enough to give a small town heart burn. It also looks super cool as the chili's just hang down ready to pick. Many other plants respond well to this technique, it's not about the support - although it does support things as well.
I have found myself saying to myself “Let’s get into this!” When starting tasks outside. 😀
Was funny when you started the compost bin over with a new bucket of scraps. No chickens to be seen till the scraps come out. 😂
I'm adding garlic to my garden too. Honestly, just to see if I can get it to grow!🌿
I am the same way! I love to grow née things just to see if I can! I am trying to grow garlic now too! Good luck!
@@Summerlove2316 Thanks! Same to you, happy gardening!🌻
There's fall garlic and summer garlic. One i plant in November for a June harvest, and the other I planted early March for a summer harvest. The latter one is new to me so here's hoping!
@@jillhumphrys8073 Thanks, I had no idea! Good luck to you as well!
I love your experimental attitude Rachal! I hope your garlic is a success but if not I'm sure you will learn heaps regardless. Cheers :)
It must be so relaxing looking at your property from your deck, watching things grow and animals forage
Yeah, it is. And not only the view but knowing the labour of love that has gone into creating and maintaining the garden and poultry areas - it's very satisfying to stand on the deck with a coffee, lean on the railing, and just enjoy the atmosphere. Cheers :)
Your videos are great and also very informative, I try your ideas when I do videos. Keep up the great work
I have just found this channel Mark. Greetings from Scotland 🏴🇬🇧. Absolutely love it. I have always wanted to have a nice garden to work in and I have just moved house and finally got the garden I was looking for and am looking forward to discovering how to grow veggies with my kids and teach myself and them how to he a bit more self sufficient. Made a couple of mistakes already but that's ok we live and we learn and come again. I am now away to binge watch a few more videos
I love the Australian ascent, it is much easier for Indians to understand. So hardworking man. Love this type life.
5::55 Your chooks come running! Those are some happy birds! Hope your garlic does well. Hardneck garlic loves zone 4. Here we plant deep so tip of garlic is ~5 cm below soil surface and then put on 15 cm thick mulch topper. It's so interesting to see how things are done in different climates. Who is the critter at the end?? Here we have trash pandas/raccoons.
Im enjoying the dramatic music lol. wish i had some chickens so I could do this.
i bet your garlic is going to be amazing! i love the idea for the back up garlic, i would not have thought of that
I love from 5:42 onwards watching all of your well trained chickens reacting to the sound of you emptying more goodies into the pit!
Mark I hope your garlic grows like a champion in that great chicken compost!
I live in a city apartment. These videos make my body ache wishing for my own green space.
Do you have a window that gets sunlight for 6 hours or more a day? You can grow a few plants there.
If you don't have a window space, you can set up a grow light and grow quite a few different plants.
Ask the store worker(s) at your local supermarket for a polystyrene brocholi box then buy some good quality potting mix and a little blood n bone and put it on the balcony, in the sun, and plant some migonette lettuce(they are small) and some shallot ends and any thing else that will grow small. Garlic too like Mark planted!
I love how your chickens come running when they hear the scraps. My cat does the same thing when I open his food.
I ran out of my chicken yard compost last year so this year I got my Dad's old Roto-Hoe "cut and shredder" running and chipped everything I could find to feed it, including the Christmas tree, all the crab shells from new year's big crab feed, a load of fir bark that I collected from a fire wood cutter and all of my fruit tree prunings and fall leaves. It was a lot of carbon rich material so I had to add several pounds of extra nitrogen in the form of ammonium sulfate fertilizer to supplement the chicken droppings and get it to all breakdown into compost. But now I had enough to remove 3 wheelbarrow loads of tired soil from my squash bed and replace it with 6 loads of fresh compost. And I have plenty left over to make at least another cubic yard of homemade potting soil by just adding perlite and peat moss after sifting the compost thru a 1/4" hardware cloth screen.
The next project : a conveyor belt transporting the compost from source to raised beds! Either that or shifting the chicken compost heap closer.
Hahaha... Yes, so true! Actually, I have been strongly considering getting an electric wheelbarrow. Cheers :)
funny watching the chooks skidaddle to the compost ring as soon as they heard you tipping the scraps over 🤭💗
@12:12. 😂😂😂😂 all the chickens come out running---ready to eat!!! 🐔 🐔
Mark!! I love you sooo much! I always find something new to grow when I watch your videos! There aren’t many TH-camrs in the subtropical areas. You’re amazing sir. Thank you
I love how all the chooks come running
I've been using a bale of straw that I ran through my little electric shredder as mulch. Brakes it down a little and keeps it from blowing around. And in a pinch I can use it for my horse lol
Nice tip! Cheers :)
I can look back at myself 40 years ago & laugh. I used to try to keep the chickens out of my compost.
Eventually, by following the Law of the Easiest, I figured it out. Neat to see you make a feeder out of it, Mark. I've been taking notes & when we get our birds, after summer heat is over, will build one for their pen.
I love, love your videos! You have taught me so much about gardening through the years. I have been with you since you thought you were not going to make it on TH-cam.
Friend your videos are always so inspiring and relaxing! Lol the chickens ran to get in to the scraps, yum! 😊
Those chickens are really loving it that’s what we do backhome and compost just came out so good fresh, fine and so rich textures I miss my childhood. Your pastic factory planters/ plants beds are fantastic and I’m gonna work a bit in our small garden for these garlics I already started but I m gonna have another one after I watched the process of ur garlic bed or barrel that’s what I got the plastic barrel. I am very fashionated.
Heard that comments help 😁😷👍
They do. 😎
I put my garlic cloves into water and then the fridge for two days prior to planting. The cold snap encourages early growth and you get less rotten or failed bulbs.
Nice video, this may be a bit boring but here's the back story, I'm a 13 year old beginner gardener (3 years ago) I also live in south east Queensland, I am wondering where do you get your garlic from and you do such a good job on these videos just saying you have helped me a lot and others as well
My advice for garlic is: buy a bunch of healthy looking cloves from a farmer's market that you know for a fact that grows locally, they always make sure to get the best stuff that performs well for the area
Awesome! Not boring at all. An idea for you.... I purchased organic garlic at the store... cooked with some and planted 1 bulb just to try it out. I got about 7 bulbs out of it. Last year I took the biggest bulb and put those cloves in the ground. So far I have about 12-14 shoots pop up. Ill see in July how I did. I live in Canada 🇨🇦 Best wishes for an amazing garden to you. 🪴
What a good day it is when your hands get all dirty from working in your garden. I enjoyed the video mate.
Youre helping me learn loads, been binge watching all your videos and i love em. keep it up and good luck mate
Ever tried sprouting the garlic in water prior to planting. I did that this year, every bulb sprouted.
You're like the Crocodile Hunter of homesteading. I love this channel.
Mark, I hope your garlic grows like a champion in your composted chicken manure mix.
Looks like good compost. Planting my garlic tomorrow.
Awesome footage, Mark!! I didn't know garlic could grow in trays like seeds. Amazing! Thanks!! 💖👍🏆
He just started it there... he will have to move it a bed or it won’t grow very big.
Thanks for all your hard work with all your videos Mark. My raised bed garden is now at 13 and is saving the back aches. Keep the tips coming. 👍😁
I like seeing people exited to garden. Thanks for the info 😊
I just topped up my beds with my chicken compost last night. The veg are going to love it!
Mark, I hope your garlic grows like a champion in that chicken compost fertilizer mix.
Some happy chickens you have over there!... Great!!! Congratulations 👏👏
I like way he talk. He has lot of energy
¡Qué buena idea! Me encantan tus videos y escuchar el inglés con tu acento. Muy buen video. Saludos desde Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
¡Muchas gracias! Espero que mi inglés no sea demasiado difícil de entender jajaja ... Todo lo mejor :)
@@Selfsufficientme not at all ☺️👍
Hope your garlic grows beautifully in your chicken powered compost ;) Thank you for your videos. Love them!
Love seeing the chicken ring and l hope your garlic does all that you want.
Hi....... Mark nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
Happy lil workers. First time doing raised beds in our garden this year, lotta good information here
It's interesting that you're planting your garlic in the fall. The rule I always heard was plant garlic on the shortest day of the year, and harvest on the longest.
Nice method to make compost from chicken manure , kitchen waste and dead leaves around garden keep in one place 6 months it become best fertilizer to use in garden , i also make liquid fertilizer from kitchen waste to use on fruit tree they are produce a lot fruit , thanks fo sharing nice tips
I recently went to my maternal native and over there people collect manure from cattle in a certain spot and their chickens feed on the insects present in it. They rarely ever feed those chickens and they are still very healthy.
Hey Mark as a local to you and vegi growing enthusiast l love your videos. I use a similar system of holding my vegi scraps. Can l recommend putting some paper waste in the bottom of your barrel as this absorbs excess liquid and stops it going sour and helps reduce odours in your barrel. Keep up the great work.
basil plant is gonna touch the sky
Sorry if I come across as strange; but sometimes I leave videos of yours, that I have already watched, running in the background just because you have a soothing voice.
Just came back inside after working in the garden for 2 hours. Lots of early spring stuff.
Gonna take a shower, then my girlfriend will arrive soon 🙃
Can’t wait to watch grease with her😊
She is cheating on you
@@2k1lex Why do you say so?
@@abyssal_phoenix Don't pay any attention to that silliness, from the other commenter. 🤪
Enjoy the movie and your time with your loved one. Hope your garden does well, also. ✌
@@stephaniebalducci6248 thanks 😊 and thanks x2 😂
Also hope your garden will do great as well😊🙃
Your channel my friend is ANAZING!!! You can find soo many information...Great job 👏👏. Thank you for sharing this helpful video 👍. Have a wonderful day!
I just discovered your channel. I really happy I did. I am a newbie gardener, thanks for all the gardening tips.
Would love another full garden tour Mark!
I love your videos . Its my stress reliever 😊 please make more videos about your chickens as i love to watch them. Good job sir and thank you for ur video 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. From Palm Beach Florida USA
Mark, I will be planting Garlic in the next few days at the Poorboys Little Homestead. So I hope you have an over abundance crop and maybe I will to....LOL
G'day, and all the best with your garlic! Also, congrats on your channel - I like your excellent and varied collection of raised garden beds made from different materials. Cheers :)
Good sharing 👍👍
I plant my garlic over an inch deep. But I'm in the UK, so I sow in September and harvest in June-July.
Good job 👍