hey man-- just wanted to thank you for a good video. for explaining stuff like you would to a buddy. no elitism or nonsense. this is good stuff-- gonna add your channel to my own gardening resources. thanks man.
I'm glad your a market gardener that composts Your garden is as good looking as they come. Congratulations! I don't understand why JM Fortier and Curtis Stone can't be bothered to compost. It seems "incomplete" to me. But, I figure compost is so much heavier and has smaller particles than mulch that when you put it on top of mulch and spray water it in - it kinda melts through the mulch, down to the soil. I imagine there is a little more nitrogen binding this way than there would be if I pulled the mulch back first, but once I put mulch down I don't want to pick it back up. That seems redundant to me.
Thanks ya all of the natural fertility stuff really does work! I think because they are really focused on the business ends of things, the time to make it doesn't out way the cost to buy it. Which I would agree with them, but I'm trying to show how to do this type of business with very reduced inputs, as close to 0 as I can get. To be truly sustainable and regenerative. Just got to keep adding in my new systems, I'm getting close. If you do a thin layer of compost ya I could see it melting. But buried carbon will rob nitrogen from the soil, covering a little is fine, and if you don't have much organic material then it's even more ok. But in general it shouldn't be done. That's why you should never have sticks or large wood chips in your compost, they rob nitrogen, and they can't be broken down.
@@NaturesAlwaysRight super appreciate your vids and your commitment to a circular-ecology agriculture! Would love to hear more about what you consider a 'built soil'; what are you building towards? how do you know when you're there without a soil test?
Loved the video. I learned about the compost while rocking out to the music in the background. You have a happy garden and happy neighbors, great combination 😊
Love your composting videos! I followed your vid of sheet mulching but had to cut out a few steps just because of limited time, am pleased with the results and will start plating soon! :) Thumbs up to the new curtis stone youve already been a great help and looking forward to future videos keep it up m8
Thanks I'm glad you have found them helpful! Good luck in your garden! Thanks for your support and omg if I could help someone 1% of how much curtis helped me I would by insanely joyful for that.
Hey, I have to ask. It looks like there is grass coming up near that straw mulch. Is your straw sprouting? I bought some straw from a farm supply store that mostly serves for animals and horses. I pulled all the weeds around the forsythia bushes I've been nursing along, dreaming of becoming big and beautiful, then I mulched them with straw and it sprouted and ruined all my hard work. I always thought the point of using straw as opposed to hay was because it DIDN'T have seeds in it. Maybe I just bought it from the wrong place. Other than that, I really like the look of strraw and like how workable it makes the soil beneath so that pulling weeds is a simple task.
I came here looking for info on regards to how I should apply my horse compost to my fruit trees. I've heard conflicting things, some say remove my wood chips (9in deep) and some say throw the compost on top of the chips so as not to"disturbe" the soil. I think you confirmed my thinking.... It'll rob nitrogen
How is the maket garden going? Have you been able to sell most of your produce? How is it performing considering you are growing a wide selection? I'm starting my market garden next season but I don't really want to specialise in a handful of crops like Curtis does - simply because I love growing all the different varieties!
Going excellent! I sell almost all of my produce and the we or my landlords eat. I basically haven't composted anything the whole year and a half I've been farming this plot, so I'm really proud of that, but my scale is small. Well I wouldn't say I grow a wide selection, no more than 15 different items per season, and trying to shrink it down. This year was a lot of trial and error to see what people/restaurants really want. So that's good you want to grow different things but you must keep CSV rating in mind. You must have high high profit margins on a small scale. It's the only way to be profitable. So run your numbers of what you want to grow, the price you can get ect. I highly recommend to not get caught up in the grow everything mentality because as a small business model it just doesn't seem to work. On a 1-5 acre farm I think it makes a lot more sense, but 1/2 acre or less you must be very selective of what you grow. But it just depends on your business model, market streams, customer demand, everywhere is different. Good luck with everything! Very happy for you going for it next season!
I think you mean CVR :) My context is a little different as I won't have rent or a mortgage to pay, so profitability doesn't have to be as high. That said, I obviously don't want to slave away for peanuts. I live in a small town and there aren't many restaurants near by so my hope was to sell direct to families and maybe some local cafes. Though I feel like families want variety which is what makes it difficult. I guess it will be a lot of trial and error. Starting next season (it's summer here atm).
Gary Weddle yes I meant cvr hehe. That's a good plan to start with as you start selling and talking with your customers your growing plan can start to take more shape. I think the first year is all about testing out market streams and crops. Take tons of notes and record all of your planting and harvesting data. Then in the second year you'll have really good idea of the best things to grow and how long it takes to grow/harvest for specific orders ect.
Great tips. Lots of good information on your channel. Once spring hit here I'll be putting a worm bin together to start putting into our systems and enriching them.
Northeast Homestead nice that's a great plan. Worms are so important, and so easy to implement. I swear by castings and tea some of the best nutrients you can give your plants.
I’ve been using VegSTABLE 15” rings I got at Home Depot for tomatoes and legumes. I just mulch it and I water maybe once every 2 weeks so that’s really saving on water. Also I have clay soil so it’s pretty good cause I only use a 15” circumference area to grow.
Nice sounds like that is a good system for you. I just like using 1/4" and spiral it, very cheap and you can use an on/off valve as the adapter to the 1/2" poly line. Super cheap and super useful.
I always wondered can u mix homemade compost into your dirt after the fact, as in after you’ve gotten your veggie garden growing just to help it grow better.. “i already have plants just no fruits have popped yet”
Ya you definitely want to feed your summer crops that produce fruit 2-3 times throughout the season. A shovelful of good compost is enough to keep them growing well. An organic fertilizer higher in phosphate can help with fruit production.
Have you considered using your chicken run as a composting pile allowing them to do the work? We raise all our birds in runs on compost. They process all the material to almost pure soil and then we pile it and tarp it for 2 months. It shaves off time simply pulling out their waste an starring a pile on the side. If anything your run could be an additional compost pile for you in addition to what you already have.
Hey Ryan, that's a great idea and way to do it. I actually have a composting set up inside of the coop to do what you are describing, you can see here th-cam.com/video/ItyBDnhpb5g/w-d-xo.html. I need constant soil for my market garden and I want to be sure temps hit high enough to kill all pathogens and weed seeds so that's why I pull it out. I'm selling food so I have to ensure my standards are as high as possible. I want to have a forced air set up for my compost someday then it's almost no work at all other than building the pile.
I've built 4 different sites, I've never soil tested once, all 4 have incredible soil years later. I probably will never test unless I suspect toxic contamination. As regenerative farmer's, we are soil builders first and foremost, If I am building good soil through the many techniques I've been using and talking about, plus there are so many more.. Then it doesn't really matter what I started with. Seeing the lab results doesn't tell me anything I can't really figure out from just digging in the starting soil. Lot's of clay means it will have a lot of minerals to start with, will be slow to drain ect. sandy soil means it won't have much mineral and will not hold water well it needs organic matter. Obviously there is a lot more nuance but you get the point. The tactic is still the same, implement strategies to build the soil you are starting with. To me getting down on that micro level isn't necessary to see or even fully understand. Because of nature's complexity, I try as much as I can to not follow a reductionist or formulaic perspective. But rather understand the system as a whole and how it interacts with all the other systems in contact with it.
Have you considered deep litter with your chickens? It's a great way to add your biochar as well, just dump it in (do crush beforehand). The chickens will load it with nutrients and biology, the char removes a large huge part of the odor. Then after hot composting the bedding material once or twice a year you get amazing biochar rich compost.
I'm basically doing a modified deep litter for my chickens. But I clean out the coop every 3 months to make a compost pile to speed up the process. Yes I have been adding biochar recently :) I've been making enough to add to my compost and chicken coop. Once I build my kiln I'll be doing more. I've been charging it in my aerated worm tea. When do you recommend adding the biochar to the compost? Once it's cold or right at the beginning when I create the pile?
@@NaturesAlwaysRight from wut I have seen people add it when starting the compost pile an by the time the material is done breaking down the biochar is inoculated
Depends on the ingredients you use and the moisture retaining ability of the compost you use. It takes many batches to get a feel for the right consistency and moisture content. I'll be posting a video about how I make them eventually. BUT, here's my formula, 1 5 gallon compost 1 5 gallon peat, 1/2 5 gallon medium or fine perlite. I will also add in a little bit of azomite so the soil has a full spectrum of micronutrients. Sometimes I add some worm tea to help inoculate with beneficial microbes too. You know you have the right moisture when the mix becomes almost gelatenous and wiggles a little when you shake it.
I’ve been blending my veggie and fruit peelings I’ve already started a raised bed with cucumbers, tomatoes peppers and squash.. which the only plant that is thriving is the squash. Can I do anything with this veggie scrap blend in my raised garden, after the fact the plants have grown?
It needs to be composted first. That is good greens or nitrogen rich material, but you will need a lotmore to build a compost pile. Just adding it to the soil won't work.
Very inspiring to see how much compost you made with the chicken poop. I'm wondering when you find it best to add compost? Right before seeding? Right after harvest? Both? I tend to follow a square foot method and in one season frequently have 2 or 3 rounds of veggies going into each square. I was composting right after harvest, then right before sowing new seeds. My P is getting really really high, according to soil tests.
Put out old and new videos alternately. Should help get more viewers. Even though gardening advice never goes bad. Viewers feel more connected to recent activities. Keep it up.
So my compost (from mulched garden waste) was looking good but have started adding vegetable food waste on top and it is now all covered in green fuzzy mould - will that compost down to nicely or should I do something to it? Xx
Lizzie Dean Makes you should try to make sure the veggies scraps are burried then they won't get all moldy. Also check to makes sure you don't let the compost get Above 160°f and try to get it to at least 145 -150°f for a few days. Good luck and I hope this helps alittle
So when you make your pile you should create the pile with all of the material you will use at once. Make a pile that is at least 3' x 3' and buildit in layers of carbon and nitrogen soaking each layer as you go. Once the pile is created it should sit for about a week, during that time if it has enough moisture and a good ration of carbon to nitrogen (30 to 1) then you will reach temps between 130-150, ideally you want to hold between 140-150 for 3-4 days. Then the pile will cool, when it gets to about 110-120, turn it. I turn my piles about once a week, that's how long it takes to cool usually. After the turn the infused oxygen will cause the microbes to speed up again and the pile will heat up again. Once your pile is going you should never add more material. Adding more material means more contaminants that could carry bacteria or mold you don't want. The microbes you don't want will be killed off during the thermophillic composting process. A pile done this way will be done in 3 months maximum. Look up thermophilic composting, and I highly recommend buying a compost thermometer, this is the one I use, good brand and great price! amzn.to/2EeWfDa
Good point! Above 150 the beneficial microbes start dying. If you measure above 150 spread the pile apart and add a little water. Let the pile cool and re-pile, measure again in a few hours to see where it is at.
Im trying to find a good system for easy turning of compost piles without tractor, do you have any good ideas?. Im thinking about the round net cage design since it exposes it to alot of air all around the "pile" + it is modular in a manageble size like the rest of my farm design. Just struggeling how to turn the pile, just doing it with a spade seems like alot of hard work...
I don't know of any system and haven't really considered a way to do that. I can only come up with mechanized ideas that require power of some sort. The center of the pile must be turned and a net would just cause the pile to dry out quickly which you don't want. Maybe if you had a large crank with an auger inside the pile that you could turn and it would rotate the pile internally. But again something like that would take more than human strength. I love that you are trying to figure out a better way. Please let me know if you ever figure it out! Until then I'll just think of turning my pile as my free gym membership ;)
ive always had the doubt cuz i make my own compost. so i just get my compost and put some over my plants? i got fruit trees as well. so ill just go ahead and do that.
If you could speak up just slightly, I would hear better. Your garden is gorgeous. One question? This is my first summer stabbing at Permaculture, I am using much deeper mulch than you. Is that a problem?
I would feed minerals (Azomite) , eggshells and other high value nutrients to my worms so I only feed chelated minerals to my plants for easier absorption.
Straw is without seed, hay is with seed. Unfortunately I bought some cheap "Straw" and it turned out to me more hay than straw so that's why I hate wheat grass growing in my cover crop. My soil still has weeds but it is very little now.
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hey man-- just wanted to thank you for a good video. for explaining stuff like you would to a buddy. no elitism or nonsense. this is good stuff-- gonna add your channel to my own gardening resources. thanks man.
You're welcome Lloyd. Thank you, I'm honored by your words.
Do you put compost on your eyebrows? They're growing in pretty well
PythagorasHP LMAO!!!!! I diiiiiied haha
He put hydrogen peroxide on his eyebrow to oxygenate his eyebrow roots.
Outstanding
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Great video Man! I pray the majority of humanity can understand and take up composting more. It’s such a rewarding thing to do anyways
Thanks for the work you do. It’s nice to see a garden from the beginning
I'm glad your a market gardener that composts Your garden is as good looking as they come. Congratulations! I don't understand why JM Fortier and Curtis Stone can't be bothered to compost. It seems "incomplete" to me. But, I figure compost is so much heavier and has smaller particles than mulch that when you put it on top of mulch and spray water it in - it kinda melts through the mulch, down to the soil. I imagine there is a little more nitrogen binding this way than there would be if I pulled the mulch back first, but once I put mulch down I don't want to pick it back up. That seems redundant to me.
Thanks ya all of the natural fertility stuff really does work! I think because they are really focused on the business ends of things, the time to make it doesn't out way the cost to buy it. Which I would agree with them, but I'm trying to show how to do this type of business with very reduced inputs, as close to 0 as I can get. To be truly sustainable and regenerative. Just got to keep adding in my new systems, I'm getting close. If you do a thin layer of compost ya I could see it melting. But buried carbon will rob nitrogen from the soil, covering a little is fine, and if you don't have much organic material then it's even more ok. But in general it shouldn't be done. That's why you should never have sticks or large wood chips in your compost, they rob nitrogen, and they can't be broken down.
@@NaturesAlwaysRight super appreciate your vids and your commitment to a circular-ecology agriculture! Would love to hear more about what you consider a 'built soil'; what are you building towards? how do you know when you're there without a soil test?
Loved the video. I learned about the compost while rocking out to the music in the background. You have a happy garden and happy neighbors, great combination 😊
Thanks :) glad you liked it. Hehe yes happy neighbors are a must.
Thank you for another great video - are you able to share how you make your own potting mix, in particular to use for a seed raising mix?
Love your composting videos! I followed your vid of sheet mulching but had to cut out a few steps just because of limited time, am pleased with the results and will start plating soon! :) Thumbs up to the new curtis stone youve already been a great help and looking forward to future videos keep it up m8
Thanks I'm glad you have found them helpful! Good luck in your garden! Thanks for your support and omg if I could help someone 1% of how much curtis helped me I would by insanely joyful for that.
That's my Jam! I'm all about that Compost.
Thing I've always thought, if I make my own compost. I know where it came from, and what went into it. Good video.
Me, as a gardener myself and a honda boy totally relate to this video.
Love the garden BUT love your eyebrows even more ...amazing
Haha thanks Fotini, finally someone who really appreciates them ;)
Fotini Sidiropoulos was thinking ... more impress than the compost 🤣
I do agree...Fotini
If he cut those eyebrows off he could have nutrients for days
Those are caterpillars from the garden!
Lovely trellis for the tomatoes a+ and great video learned a lot.
New favorite channel
Brother where are you from your eyebrows are serious but your garden technique is masterful
Hey, I have to ask. It looks like there is grass coming up near that straw mulch. Is your straw sprouting? I bought some straw from a farm supply store that mostly serves for animals and horses. I pulled all the weeds around the forsythia bushes I've been nursing along, dreaming of becoming big and beautiful, then I mulched them with straw and it sprouted and ruined all my hard work. I always thought the point of using straw as opposed to hay was because it DIDN'T have seeds in it. Maybe I just bought it from the wrong place. Other than that, I really like the look of strraw and like how workable it makes the soil beneath so that pulling weeds is a simple task.
I came here looking for info on regards to how I should apply my horse compost to my fruit trees. I've heard conflicting things, some say remove my wood chips (9in deep) and some say throw the compost on top of the chips so as not to"disturbe" the soil. I think you confirmed my thinking.... It'll rob nitrogen
How is the maket garden going? Have you been able to sell most of your produce? How is it performing considering you are growing a wide selection? I'm starting my market garden next season but I don't really want to specialise in a handful of crops like Curtis does - simply because I love growing all the different varieties!
Going excellent! I sell almost all of my produce and the we or my landlords eat. I basically haven't composted anything the whole year and a half I've been farming this plot, so I'm really proud of that, but my scale is small. Well I wouldn't say I grow a wide selection, no more than 15 different items per season, and trying to shrink it down. This year was a lot of trial and error to see what people/restaurants really want. So that's good you want to grow different things but you must keep CSV rating in mind. You must have high high profit margins on a small scale. It's the only way to be profitable. So run your numbers of what you want to grow, the price you can get ect. I highly recommend to not get caught up in the grow everything mentality because as a small business model it just doesn't seem to work. On a 1-5 acre farm I think it makes a lot more sense, but 1/2 acre or less you must be very selective of what you grow. But it just depends on your business model, market streams, customer demand, everywhere is different. Good luck with everything! Very happy for you going for it next season!
I think you mean CVR :) My context is a little different as I won't have rent or a mortgage to pay, so profitability doesn't have to be as high. That said, I obviously don't want to slave away for peanuts. I live in a small town and there aren't many restaurants near by so my hope was to sell direct to families and maybe some local cafes. Though I feel like families want variety which is what makes it difficult. I guess it will be a lot of trial and error. Starting next season (it's summer here atm).
Gary Weddle yes I meant cvr hehe. That's a good plan to start with as you start selling and talking with your customers your growing plan can start to take more shape. I think the first year is all about testing out market streams and crops. Take tons of notes and record all of your planting and harvesting data. Then in the second year you'll have really good idea of the best things to grow and how long it takes to grow/harvest for specific orders ect.
Great tips. Lots of good information on your channel. Once spring hit here I'll be putting a worm bin together to start putting into our systems and enriching them.
Northeast Homestead nice that's a great plan. Worms are so important, and so easy to implement. I swear by castings and tea some of the best nutrients you can give your plants.
Beautiful garden. I have chickens but I need to compost there droppings more often.
Thank you very much. Chicken manure is amazing in the compost. It really helps me get to hotter temperatures in my compost.
I’ve been using VegSTABLE 15” rings I got at Home Depot for tomatoes and legumes. I just mulch it and I water maybe once every 2 weeks so that’s really saving on water. Also I have clay soil so it’s pretty good cause I only use a 15” circumference area to grow.
Nice sounds like that is a good system for you. I just like using 1/4" and spiral it, very cheap and you can use an on/off valve as the adapter to the 1/2" poly line. Super cheap and super useful.
I came here for the compost info and fell for those eyebrows!! amazing!! (then I saw someone had said exactly the same!!:))
Do you worry about buying organic straw? I heard it can be sprayed heavily. Thanks
Lookin like Rock Lee from Naruto with them eye brows. Good work.
I also thought the same😂. He is bushy brow
I love the eyebrows!
Lmao I'm laughing this past 15 min as I go through the comments about the composted eyebrows lol...
Thanks man!
What's the point of putting the mulch over the compost? I'm wondering if I need to invest in getting mulch/wood chips. Thanks.
I always wondered can u mix homemade compost into your dirt after the fact, as in after you’ve gotten your veggie garden growing just to help it grow better.. “i already have plants just no fruits have popped yet”
Ya you definitely want to feed your summer crops that produce fruit 2-3 times throughout the season. A shovelful of good compost is enough to keep them growing well. An organic fertilizer higher in phosphate can help with fruit production.
Awesome garden!
What kind of compost do you use on your eyebrows?
Only the best ;)
Lmao
Do add any organic fertilizer besides compost and tea?
Hope you are doing good!
Doing great! Thanks, finishing up a video about my new chickens ;)
Have you considered using your chicken run as a composting pile allowing them to do the work? We raise all our birds in runs on compost. They process all the material to almost pure soil and then we pile it and tarp it for 2 months. It shaves off time simply pulling out their waste an starring a pile on the side. If anything your run could be an additional compost pile for you in addition to what you already have.
Hey Ryan, that's a great idea and way to do it. I actually have a composting set up inside of the coop to do what you are describing, you can see here th-cam.com/video/ItyBDnhpb5g/w-d-xo.html. I need constant soil for my market garden and I want to be sure temps hit high enough to kill all pathogens and weed seeds so that's why I pull it out. I'm selling food so I have to ensure my standards are as high as possible. I want to have a forced air set up for my compost someday then it's almost no work at all other than building the pile.
It’s too much work talking all the compost out of my run and moving it but it sure works well. I have a huge run
Are you doing anything with soil testing and mineralization?
I've built 4 different sites, I've never soil tested once, all 4 have incredible soil years later. I probably will never test unless I suspect toxic contamination. As regenerative farmer's, we are soil builders first and foremost, If I am building good soil through the many techniques I've been using and talking about, plus there are so many more.. Then it doesn't really matter what I started with. Seeing the lab results doesn't tell me anything I can't really figure out from just digging in the starting soil. Lot's of clay means it will have a lot of minerals to start with, will be slow to drain ect. sandy soil means it won't have much mineral and will not hold water well it needs organic matter. Obviously there is a lot more nuance but you get the point. The tactic is still the same, implement strategies to build the soil you are starting with. To me getting down on that micro level isn't necessary to see or even fully understand. Because of nature's complexity, I try as much as I can to not follow a reductionist or formulaic perspective. But rather understand the system as a whole and how it interacts with all the other systems in contact with it.
Can we add it with water??
Have you considered deep litter with your chickens? It's a great way to add your biochar as well, just dump it in (do crush beforehand). The chickens will load it with nutrients and biology, the char removes a large huge part of the odor. Then after hot composting the bedding material once or twice a year you get amazing biochar rich compost.
I'm basically doing a modified deep litter for my chickens. But I clean out the coop every 3 months to make a compost pile to speed up the process. Yes I have been adding biochar recently :) I've been making enough to add to my compost and chicken coop. Once I build my kiln I'll be doing more. I've been charging it in my aerated worm tea. When do you recommend adding the biochar to the compost? Once it's cold or right at the beginning when I create the pile?
@@NaturesAlwaysRight from wut I have seen people add it when starting the compost pile an by the time the material is done breaking down the biochar is inoculated
I'd love to know your soil mix for soil blocks. I'm thinking of giving them a try.
Depends on the ingredients you use and the moisture retaining ability of the compost you use. It takes many batches to get a feel for the right consistency and moisture content. I'll be posting a video about how I make them eventually. BUT, here's my formula, 1 5 gallon compost 1 5 gallon peat, 1/2 5 gallon medium or fine perlite. I will also add in a little bit of azomite so the soil has a full spectrum of micronutrients. Sometimes I add some worm tea to help inoculate with beneficial microbes too. You know you have the right moisture when the mix becomes almost gelatenous and wiggles a little when you shake it.
I’ve been blending my veggie and fruit peelings I’ve already started a raised bed with cucumbers, tomatoes peppers and squash.. which the only plant that is thriving is the squash. Can I do anything with this veggie scrap blend in my raised garden, after the fact the plants have grown?
It needs to be composted first. That is good greens or nitrogen rich material, but you will need a lotmore to build a compost pile. Just adding it to the soil won't work.
Amazing garden.
Thank you Padma.
I like the subject, but I didn't get much information from this video. More info please.
Very inspiring to see how much compost you made with the chicken poop. I'm wondering when you find it best to add compost? Right before seeding? Right after harvest? Both?
I tend to follow a square foot method and in one season frequently have 2 or 3 rounds of veggies going into each square. I was composting right after harvest, then right before sowing new seeds. My P is getting really really high, according to soil tests.
Looking good once again!
Thanks! Trying to release all of these older videos I shot as quick as I can so I can put out my newer better content :)
Nature's Always Right sounds good
Put out old and new videos alternately. Should help get more viewers. Even though gardening advice never goes bad. Viewers feel more connected to recent activities. Keep it up.
Thanks for the advice. I've been trying to think about the best way to do it. I think that's a great idea!
Those eyebrows tho
So my compost (from mulched garden waste) was looking good but have started adding vegetable food waste on top and it is now all covered in green fuzzy mould - will that compost down to nicely or should I do something to it? Xx
Lizzie Dean Makes you should try to make sure the veggies scraps are burried then they won't get all moldy. Also check to makes sure you don't let the compost get
Above 160°f and try to get it to at least 145 -150°f for a few days. Good luck and I hope this helps alittle
So when you make your pile you should create the pile with all of the material you will use at once. Make a pile that is at least 3' x 3' and buildit in layers of carbon and nitrogen soaking each layer as you go. Once the pile is created it should sit for about a week, during that time if it has enough moisture and a good ration of carbon to nitrogen (30 to 1) then you will reach temps between 130-150, ideally you want to hold between 140-150 for 3-4 days. Then the pile will cool, when it gets to about 110-120, turn it. I turn my piles about once a week, that's how long it takes to cool usually. After the turn the infused oxygen will cause the microbes to speed up again and the pile will heat up again. Once your pile is going you should never add more material. Adding more material means more contaminants that could carry bacteria or mold you don't want. The microbes you don't want will be killed off during the thermophillic composting process. A pile done this way will be done in 3 months maximum. Look up thermophilic composting, and I highly recommend buying a compost thermometer, this is the one I use, good brand and great price! amzn.to/2EeWfDa
Good point! Above 150 the beneficial microbes start dying. If you measure above 150 spread the pile apart and add a little water. Let the pile cool and re-pile, measure again in a few hours to see where it is at.
Im trying to find a good system for easy turning of compost piles without tractor, do you have any good ideas?.
Im thinking about the round net cage design since it exposes it to alot of air all around the "pile" + it is modular in a manageble size like the rest of my farm design. Just struggeling how to turn the pile, just doing it with a spade seems like alot of hard work...
I don't know of any system and haven't really considered a way to do that. I can only come up with mechanized ideas that require power of some sort. The center of the pile must be turned and a net would just cause the pile to dry out quickly which you don't want. Maybe if you had a large crank with an auger inside the pile that you could turn and it would rotate the pile internally. But again something like that would take more than human strength. I love that you are trying to figure out a better way. Please let me know if you ever figure it out! Until then I'll just think of turning my pile as my free gym membership ;)
ive always had the doubt cuz i make my own compost. so i just get my compost and put some over my plants? i got fruit trees as well. so ill just go ahead and do that.
Can you add flowers 💐 🌺 🌸 in the compost? Your eyebrows are spectacular 👍🏼
Absolutely
Gat damn! I want eyebrows like that! I'm jealous! I'm growing mine out!
If you could speak up just slightly, I would hear better. Your garden is gorgeous. One question? This is my first summer stabbing at Permaculture, I am using much deeper mulch than you. Is that a problem?
When you clean out your chicken run and gather the compost, do you let it age any or is it ready to go directly to the garden? Thanks!
I pull it out and compost for about 6 weeks getting it up to at least 140F. Here's my video on how to do it, th-cam.com/video/nlN0QGgbmSA/w-d-xo.html
Can I add citrus peeling to my compost soil?
Yes definitely. Just make sure you have a balanced amount of greens, not just citrus.
Damn, did you film this ON the sun, lol? Great video!
I would feed minerals (Azomite) , eggshells and other high value nutrients to my worms so I only feed chelated minerals to my plants for easier absorption.
Are you using compost on those eyebrows dude?Great video and awesome eyebrows.👍
Just curious, did you add compost to those eyebrows? Lol, I'm kidding. Thanks for the info and God bless.
Lmao that was funny dude I'm crackin up as I write lol nice one...
03:45 So, if the carbon you are using is sitting above the soil, does that mean any decomposition gets nitrogen from the air?
the part of the carbon that is in contact with the soil will start to break down, adding nitrogen and other nutrients to the soil slowly over time.
Solid point I think your on to something
By the way there is three types of nitrogen
Single bond, to three bond
Did you put compost on your eyebrows? 😍
Doesn't straw mulch carry weed seeds?
Is your soil weedy or was it just a myth?
Straw is without seed, hay is with seed. Unfortunately I bought some cheap "Straw" and it turned out to me more hay than straw so that's why I hate wheat grass growing in my cover crop. My soil still has weeds but it is very little now.
Yes me too!
Those comments crack me up!
Those 3 mustaches really compliment the shape of your face
woah brows!
How often do you compost them eyebrows, wow the growth is amazing
God, why I wasn't born with eyebrows like these too? :0
His eyebrows remind me of K.K. Slider aka Totakeke from Animal Crossing.
a little too much compost...
Good video, sub ya! Here from México.
those eyebrows are thiccccccccccccccc
compost...
Who do we get worms to come though?
Dude, the eyebrows 😳
Bro, the eyebrows...
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Are you Scottish
I think you've been composting those eyebrows
Extremely variable sound levels so not always easy to hear. Too much self congratulatory waffle and not enough info. Script your presentations, stick to the script and spare us the blah-blah-blah.