I live in an upstairs apartment with a small deck and I have 2 homemade compost bins using trash cans. These have increased my container garden tremendously . . . I cut up my cardboard food boxes, all my junk mail and anything with personal information I don't want to get out, leaves, twigs . . . So easy, beneficial and worth it
@@scohid04 “Many” but not a majority; pretty much every cheaply made ink has a combination of petroleum and organics. The heavy metals shouldn't be too bad of a problem as long as you have worms, pillbugs, millipedes etc. on the ground that are attracted to the finished compost, but petroleum can take years to break down.
For things with ink I think an extra processing step is necessary, if you're making a large amount of compost with them. Best to process that stuff through soil bugs like worms and pillbugs or even black soldier fly larvae; these will accumulate some of the metals and petroleum (and toxic/carcinogenic contaminants associated with plastic, petroleum, paper bleaching, etc.), and maybe even more importantly their guts provide bacteria that help break down microplastics and mineralize metals. Once it's been processed through them, then add it to unfinished compost to give it even more time to break down.
I never in a million years would have thought to add quick start to my compost! I've worked in a pet store and keep fish but I never thought to add an aquarium bacteria starter to my compost. Brilliant!
My conposting has been almost nothing and I bought some this year to fill up my raised beds. Not cheap. But this might actually help my composting game! I have a compost tumbler but clearly I had no idea what I was doing. Thanks Luke!
Thanks for the tip on speeding up your compost. I live in Chicago and compost in galvanized trash cans with holes drilled in them to let in air. This is the only thing that keeps rodents out, but the composting is really slow. I will try this to see if it helps speed up my composting. Also, I noticed some brown spots in my grass from my dog and I’ll use it there to see if that helps. You also have great gardening and life advice. Happy Gardening!!!!
I wish I would have known this back when I first got my compost tumbler a couple of years ago. You are right about it taking FOREVER for those first couple of batches of compost to finish! But now it only takes a couple of months since I always leave some finished compost in the tumbler when I start the next batch. Thanks for the great advice!
I just got a used tumbler a couple of months ago. Seemed like my compost just wasn't breaking down much. Thought I was giving it the right things for the balance, but ... Just this past Monday I went and bought compost starter for $15. Wish I had known about this stuff first! Learning still!!
That is awesome, Luke. I always compost my perennial vegetables that have died of natural causes in my container garden. Because oftentimes they're in a smaller pot, so I just start from scratch with fresh dirt - compost - coco coir mix, that I add to what's left in the pot. I never even thought of this as a possibility and I used to buy it for my fish tank for years. Thank you again for sharing.
I have rwo big bins made from old city trash bins. They cut the bottoms off and drill holes all around them. I now turn them each day and that also sped up composting! I also add some of my finished compost to the new pile!. I can't believe how fast the process is taking!
I keep seeing people talk bout only flip once a week at most and yet my compost is was much faster with daily turns in summer. I can see weekly in winter being fine
We have a very small pond in the front of our house that I put in. About the size of a whirlpool tub. Before I clean it out in the summer I take the algae filled water that has an explosion of bacteria in it and water my compost tumbler and it works quickly. 3-5 weeks. This year I built a compost bin with a lid about the same size in the back of my property and I will try your suggestion. I’ve been gardening for about 12 years now and get better every year but this year I’ve had insane success and I want to start my own business around gardening. Creating a channel or Selling seeds or seedlings come spring or selling my organic produce possibly. Still planning it out but this is my passion and I thank you for all your help all these years.
What fantastic information!! I love it!! I totally geek out on soil health and compost videos!! I really appreciate how explain things in a way that is easy to understand and also put to real use!! It’s awesome!
That is so easy and a total game changer for anyone starting a new compost pile! $5 and from a pet store? How easy is that! I love easy, cheap, and things that really work! I haven't heard about nitrogen sequestration before. I learned about nitrogen fixation in botany class at college which is why a green manure cover crop can be useful as well as legumes because the roots process and fix nitrogen in the soil. Kewl!
I would still water down the compost pile first before adding the watering can of your solution. This will allow the bacteria to distribute throughout. If it dries out, the bacteria can't thrive.
Wow, great tip! I'm a flower farmer, with 2100 sq ft of actual growing surface, trying to make my own compost and not doing a very good job of it. This winter I'm making it a priority to learn how to do better because a truck load of compost is not really the compost I'd like to use; this year's load was very hydrophobic and it is outrageously expensive! 😡 I'm also going to add a vermiculture element to my system (you have a video on that!) but I need it on a bigger scale than your demonstration. I just realized that adding Quick Start solution to the load of compost I got would have helped the hydrophobic situation, but I'd need enough for 12 yards of compost. PS: I love your Trifecta+. I've used that for 5+ years on my veggies and now on my flowers. I'd rather spend my money on Trifecta+ rather than that less-than-desirable commercial compost.
A good ratio is 26:1 carbon to nitrogen. This might sound crazy but add plain white sugar to your compost pile or garden. Sugar is a fast food source for the microorganisms. Plain white sugar is a great carbon source.
Awesome information! My ex was what I would call a "composting zealot", constantly turning the compost piles... to the exclusion of other activities with friends and family. 🙄 With that, I have been more inclined to cold compost ~ "dump & run", lol. Your approach with the fish tank innoculant may help change my attitude. Thanks so much! 😎👍
I've had a compost pile in the same place for 24 years and have never had to add a starter to it. I just use some of the previous year's compost to get a new pile started which works well.
Very interesting I think I’m going to add this to my fall compost pile. I’ve had going about three weeks and try to speed it up a little bit. I live in the north east where eventually with the cold, I know my piles gonna stall for the winter.
@ I have two 4foot by 4footby 4foot bins that I keep working at all times. As soon as one is done I spread it on an existing bed or use to fill a new bed.
Great tip! Adding pelletized animal bedding to our compost tumbler has been a game-changer for us. This adds nitrogen when there are fewer sources of nitrogen during the growing season. Not a problem now, however, as leaves fall here in NE Indiana. I leave a little finished compost in the bottom when emptying it as a "starter." Use of these pellets is akin to Luke's recommendation of alfalfa pellets to raised beds as an inexpensive nitrogen boost. Works very well for us too, in the fall.
This sounds like a great tip, I do mix in resting hot compost when creating a new pile, but if you do not have any to start with, this sounds great. I add lactic acid bacteria to resting hot compost. The LAB is terrific at breaking down larger pieces of carbon and will destroy any disease causing fungi that may have not been touched by the hot composting process,. LAB has a bunch of other benefits I do not understand, lol.. That is how I can compost plants that had late blight or powdery mildew. Stay Well!!!
I believe that Bokashi Bran does the same thing and helps to remove odor should you have an indoor bin for kitchen waste. Thanks so much for your information!
Take a bucket and go out to the woods, any woods, go the local park. Rack back the leaves and collect that very top layer of "soil". It's not soil, it's leaf mould and it's full of the bacteria he's talking about. Local bacteria that will help you more than anything on the internet. Grab as much as you want and mix it in with your compost. It does the same exact thing, for free.
Watch out for creepy crawlies when you do that. I personally am not worried about them, and I haven't encountered anything problematic. Just be aware that there may be potential and pay attention.
been keeping fish for years, I squeeze out my sponge filters over my worm tower when I'm cleaning them. Sometimes I'll run dirty fish tank water (100-200 ppm nitrate) through the worm tower until I get a good amount of run off. I mix the run off with shredded cardboard and add that to my compost bins, for similar reasons. I also use the run off diluted as liquid fertilizer or foliar spray and to charge my bio char.
I take veg scraps and shovel in ground and my time grown freezes in two months every inch of beds are graced with scraps and worms grow and soil is great in spring.
Luke....i wish i could turn my piles😢 but with RA, my arms won't let me. I WILL get some nitrifying bacteria though to help my cold compost piles and see if it helos break down faster
Hey Luke thanks for all your videos. In Reference to turning your compost, can I use a Auger? on a drill to work it? Aerate it - Think of a Tulip bulb planting size, Or a Large Paint / or concrete mixing paddle, Not a Ice fishing auger, LOL- And maybe adding a little Urine to the mix for a nitrogen mixer? just trying to work Smarter not harder in my Sr years.
I keep fish and sometimes I put the old water in my compost or use it to water my indoor plants I never used the products I put in the tank! Now I know what I'm doing with my expired products. And I have a bottle of fritz turbo start in the fridge
Hi fellow Michigander. Due to health conditions I'm not able to turn my piles as often as I should. I've noticed it's probably not hot enough b/c it's not breaking down seeds. This year I had tomato plants and pumpkins growing everywhere I used it. 🤣 Can I add Quick Start to my winter pile?
I hope you can help me, my compost heap when I turn it over has lots of bugs, Question, can I use this compost when starting new seeds or young plants?
I’d like to see evidence that ur product works better than simply adding a compost starter, specifically in a standard compost pile. I’m done with “buy this, buy that” used as clickbait. Evidence.
I roughly sift my compost before using it. All the stuff that doesn't make it through, I put into my new compost pile. That's a starter for my next pile. Don't bother buying bacteria mixes, they really aren't needed.
What about composting cold climates? During the winter. Do I stop adding stuff to my compost pile in the winter and just wait till Spring to start up again.
A pile big enough for hot composting should internally generate heat. There are videos of people using very large compost piles with heat exchangers to heat green houses over winter. There is also hot boxing, essentially the mini version of the above. Huw Richards had a video on those.
I cover the pile with a lot of leaves in the fall and just before a snow storm or hard freeze I put a folded tarp over it and weigh down the edges.. It doesn't freeze like this and I can still access it to add stuff by shoveling the snow off the tarp and digging a hole in the compost.
Yes but it works differently from nitrifying bacteria is my understanding. The Weedy Gardener uses LABS for his hot composting to generate finished compost within a few weeks. LABS will speed up the process generating ammonia which nitrifying bacteria like.
If anyone has established aquarium, most of these bacteria will be in mulm, on aquarium deco and plants, and in the filter. I have been watering my plant with aquarium water when I do the water change bu I think I know now where all these stuff can also go to when I have to clean the filter when it get clogged.
This is about useless in my opinion. Bacteria double in population every five to twenty minutes depending on species, and will reach carrying capacity for the specific environment they’re i within 48-72 hours, so at best you’re cutting a day or three off of the composting time. Furthermore, nitrifying bacteria do the bulk of their work slowly over the course of the curing stage after the thermophilic bacteria have done their work of breaking things down. The way to speed up compost is to create ideal conditions in terms of particle size (small pieces with high surface area, but not too small so as to ensure plenty of void space for air and water) variety of ingredients (variety is the spice of life and ensures there’s plenty of food sources for a diversity of different microbes thus facilitating a diverse food web and microbial ecological succession) optimized Carbon to Nitrogen ratio, moisture content and aeration. Without optimal environmental conditions, carrying capacity will be reduced and any added microbes will face a lower ceiling on their maximum population potential. With optimal environmental conditions, microbes will quickly populate to carrying capacity on their own without any need for inoculations from outside sources.
BUYER BEWARE! No Amazon product link in your "Show More" section, nor is this shown on your own "If we wouldn't use it we would not endorse it." MIgardener website, so I did some checking... From the product reviews: "When the bottle arrives, it has been in a room temperature box for who knows how long. For nitrifying bacteria to survive, they must be kept refrigerated. Basically you receive a bottle of dead bacteria, which does nothing." Save your money.
Wonder if you could use this in rain water barrels that have grown algae? I didn't have a lid and I painted it black but algae still grew. I collect it to water my garden. ?????
I live in an upstairs apartment with a small deck and I have 2 homemade compost bins using trash cans. These have increased my container garden tremendously . . . I cut up my cardboard food boxes, all my junk mail and anything with personal information I don't want to get out, leaves, twigs . . . So easy, beneficial and worth it
just a F.Y.I. your junk mail has heavy metals in the ink that will get passed to your plants then to you......hope this helps
@@mattrobinson6594 Many inks are now made with veg based dyes, so not necessarily. Do keep the metals in mind though.
@@scohid04 “Many” but not a majority; pretty much every cheaply made ink has a combination of petroleum and organics. The heavy metals shouldn't be too bad of a problem as long as you have worms, pillbugs, millipedes etc. on the ground that are attracted to the finished compost, but petroleum can take years to break down.
For things with ink I think an extra processing step is necessary, if you're making a large amount of compost with them. Best to process that stuff through soil bugs like worms and pillbugs or even black soldier fly larvae; these will accumulate some of the metals and petroleum (and toxic/carcinogenic contaminants associated with plastic, petroleum, paper bleaching, etc.), and maybe even more importantly their guts provide bacteria that help break down microplastics and mineralize metals. Once it's been processed through them, then add it to unfinished compost to give it even more time to break down.
I think you're doing a great job! Many who live in apartments have a mentality of "I can't do that." Good on ya!
I started watering with my son’s dirty fish tank water, diluted.
I guess I should sprinkle some on my compost, too!
Yes! Don't even need to dilute it.
Course that only works with freshwater aquariums😆
This might be a game changer as my composting skills stink. Best tip I have been given in a while. Thx
I never in a million years would have thought to add quick start to my compost! I've worked in a pet store and keep fish but I never thought to add an aquarium bacteria starter to my compost. Brilliant!
If you keep fish tanks, even just adding the water during a water change is good.
My conposting has been almost nothing and I bought some this year to fill up my raised beds. Not cheap. But this might actually help my composting game! I have a compost tumbler but clearly I had no idea what I was doing. Thanks Luke!
Thanks for the tip on speeding up your compost. I live in Chicago and compost in galvanized trash cans with holes drilled in them to let in air. This is the only thing that keeps rodents out, but the composting is really slow. I will try this to see if it helps speed up my composting. Also, I noticed some brown spots in my grass from my dog and I’ll use it there to see if that helps. You also have great gardening and life advice. Happy Gardening!!!!
I wish I would have known this back when I first got my compost tumbler a couple of years ago. You are right about it taking FOREVER for those first couple of batches of compost to finish! But now it only takes a couple of months since I always leave some finished compost in the tumbler when I start the next batch. Thanks for the great advice!
I just got a used tumbler a couple of months ago. Seemed like my compost just wasn't breaking down much. Thought I was giving it the right things for the balance, but ... Just this past Monday I went and bought compost starter for $15. Wish I had known about this stuff first! Learning still!!
That is awesome, Luke. I always compost my perennial vegetables that have died of natural causes in my container garden. Because oftentimes they're in a smaller pot, so I just start from scratch with fresh dirt - compost - coco coir mix, that I add to what's left in the pot. I never even thought of this as a possibility and I used to buy it for my fish tank for years. Thank you again for sharing.
I have rwo big bins made from old city trash bins. They cut the bottoms off and drill holes all around them. I now turn them each day and that also sped up composting! I also add some of my finished compost to the new pile!. I can't believe how fast the process is taking!
I keep seeing people talk bout only flip once a week at most and yet my compost is was much faster with daily turns in summer. I can see weekly in winter being fine
We have a very small pond in the front of our house that I put in. About the size of a whirlpool tub. Before I clean it out in the summer I take the algae filled water that has an explosion of bacteria in it and water my compost tumbler and it works quickly. 3-5 weeks. This year I built a compost bin with a lid about the same size in the back of my property and I will try your suggestion. I’ve been gardening for about 12 years now and get better every year but this year I’ve had insane success and I want to start my own business around gardening. Creating a channel or Selling seeds or seedlings come spring or selling my organic produce possibly. Still planning it out but this is my passion and I thank you for all your help all these years.
What fantastic information!! I love it!! I totally geek out on soil health and compost videos!! I really appreciate how explain things in a way that is easy to understand and also put to real use!! It’s awesome!
Oh, Luke, thank you so much! I started a compost pile and it's not doing much. This is just the ticket. Blessings!
Awesome information and video, Luke. Thank you for all that you do.
What a great tip! Thanks, Luke. You never disappoint.
That is so easy and a total game changer for anyone starting a new compost pile! $5 and from a pet store? How easy is that! I love easy, cheap, and things that really work!
I haven't heard about nitrogen sequestration before. I learned about nitrogen fixation in botany class at college which is why a green manure cover crop can be useful as well as legumes because the roots process and fix nitrogen in the soil. Kewl!
The best compost starter I have ever found was when I get fresh corn. I add the husks to the compost and mix it in. Iw works like magic!
I've always thought that the smell of fresh corn husks might attract racoons, opossums and other critters so don't add them.
@@dalegaa9657 but it doesn't....we add corn husk every year and not problem!
Corn husks often contain a fungus that breaks down the compost. This fungus has been utilized for centuries.
@@garydunn4325 I may try it next year to see how it does.
I was adding old compost to my new compost most of the summer but I stopped in late July. Now I know why my compost isn’t breaking down well anymore.
I would still water down the compost pile first before adding the watering can of your solution. This will allow the bacteria to distribute throughout. If it dries out, the bacteria can't thrive.
Wow, great tip! I'm a flower farmer, with 2100 sq ft of actual growing surface, trying to make my own compost and not doing a very good job of it. This winter I'm making it a priority to learn how to do better because a truck load of compost is not really the compost I'd like to use; this year's load was very hydrophobic and it is outrageously expensive! 😡 I'm also going to add a vermiculture element to my system (you have a video on that!) but I need it on a bigger scale than your demonstration. I just realized that adding Quick Start solution to the load of compost I got would have helped the hydrophobic situation, but I'd need enough for 12 yards of compost. PS: I love your Trifecta+. I've used that for 5+ years on my veggies and now on my flowers. I'd rather spend my money on Trifecta+ rather than that less-than-desirable commercial compost.
Check out the chest freezer worm bin video from Roots and Refuge or Honeybee Hallow.
What a fantastic tip! Definitely going to try this. Thank you!!
Thanks for the great tip! Putting together my compost for next year and this will be handy. BTW, good luck with the farm!
Love this suggestion and have just ordered Quick Start.
QUESTION: How often do you recommend adding it to the compost pile, once a season or more?
Thank you! I've been needing some help with this.
Loved the grass tip at the end of the video Luke! Thanks!!!!
Thank you! i just bought it on Amazon.
Great tip
Thank you so much for your great info. I had been eyeing some compost starter. Thank you for saving me some dollars!
A good ratio is 26:1 carbon to nitrogen. This might sound crazy but add plain white sugar to your compost pile or garden. Sugar is a fast food source for the microorganisms. Plain white sugar is a great carbon source.
Awesome information! My ex was what I would call a "composting zealot", constantly turning the compost piles... to the exclusion of other activities with friends and family. 🙄 With that, I have been more inclined to cold compost ~ "dump & run", lol. Your approach with the fish tank innoculant may help change my attitude. Thanks so much! 😎👍
I've had a compost pile in the same place for 24 years and have never had to add a starter to it. I just use some of the previous year's compost to get a new pile started which works well.
I, also have been composting for many years, but with worm boxes. I have always soaked the browns before mixing some already finished compost to it.
Black is beautiful
It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison.
Great tip!!!
Very interesting I think I’m going to add this to my fall compost pile. I’ve had going about three weeks and try to speed it up a little bit. I live in the north east where eventually with the cold, I know my piles gonna stall for the winter.
How many yards of compost do you produce?
@ I have two 4foot by 4footby 4foot bins that I keep working at all times. As soon as one is done I spread it on an existing bed or use to fill a new bed.
@ so a 2bin-turnover, I’m in NY, has your bin been filled for 3weeks and you don’t like your heat?
Great tip! Adding pelletized animal bedding to our compost tumbler has been a game-changer for us. This adds nitrogen when there are fewer sources of nitrogen during the growing season. Not a problem now, however, as leaves fall here in NE Indiana. I leave a little finished compost in the bottom when emptying it as a "starter."
Use of these pellets is akin to Luke's recommendation of alfalfa pellets to raised beds as an inexpensive nitrogen boost. Works very well for us too, in the fall.
This sounds like a great tip, I do mix in resting hot compost when creating a new pile, but if you do not have any to start with, this sounds great.
I add lactic acid bacteria to resting hot compost. The LAB is terrific at breaking down larger pieces of carbon and will destroy any disease causing fungi that may have not been touched by the hot composting process,. LAB has a bunch of other benefits I do not understand, lol..
That is how I can compost plants that had late blight or powdery mildew.
Stay Well!!!
Quick-Starter für Aquarien
I believe that Bokashi Bran does the same thing and helps to remove odor should you have an indoor bin for kitchen waste. Thanks so much for your information!
Take a bucket and go out to the woods, any woods, go the local park. Rack back the leaves and collect that very top layer of "soil". It's not soil, it's leaf mould and it's full of the bacteria he's talking about. Local bacteria that will help you more than anything on the internet. Grab as much as you want and mix it in with your compost. It does the same exact thing, for free.
Watch out for creepy crawlies when you do that. I personally am not worried about them, and I haven't encountered anything problematic. Just be aware that there may be potential and pay attention.
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Dont forget the trash. Needles. Bottles.dont grab that 😂
been keeping fish for years, I squeeze out my sponge filters over my worm tower when I'm cleaning them.
Sometimes I'll run dirty fish tank water (100-200 ppm nitrate) through the worm tower until I get a good amount of run off. I mix the run off with shredded cardboard and add that to my compost bins, for similar reasons. I also use the run off diluted as liquid fertilizer or foliar spray and to charge my bio char.
I’m going to try it!
Billy at perma pastures shows how to make it in 18 days! Luke, you 2 really need to hook up!!!!
Love this tip!
Loved your video ❤ You guys should sequester this market!!!
I bought this today, although it’s $30 here in Australia but if it helps with lawn die off from our dogs it’s a bargain. Can’t wait to try it
Definitely trying this!
Love it!
Hi! I have a small compost area, maybe we will try this. Thank you!
Thank you
Just ordered 2 x bottles!
I take veg scraps and shovel in ground and my time grown freezes in two months every inch of beds are graced with scraps and worms grow and soil is great in spring.
What about if you live near a forest get some of what has composted there add it to you compost pile to get the bacteria that way.
Luke....i wish i could turn my piles😢 but with RA, my arms won't let me. I WILL get some nitrifying bacteria though to help my cold compost piles and see if it helos break down faster
Have you tried those tumbling compost bins? They are smaller but I find them much easier to spin as a smaller lady with injured shoulders.
Tyvm Luke
Thank you!
Great idea Luke😊
This sounds great Luke, thanks. Would adding Sassy Lass help too?
Hey Luke thanks for all your videos. In Reference to turning your compost, can I use a Auger? on a drill to work it? Aerate it - Think of a Tulip bulb planting size, Or a Large Paint / or concrete mixing paddle, Not a Ice fishing auger, LOL- And maybe adding a little Urine to the mix for a nitrogen mixer? just trying to work Smarter not harder in my Sr years.
I use jadam microorganisms and water from the weed rott tea for that.
Always put some old compost and earth in the compost.
I keep fish and sometimes I put the old water in my compost or use it to water my indoor plants I never used the products I put in the tank! Now I know what I'm doing with my expired products. And I have a bottle of fritz turbo start in the fridge
Hi fellow Michigander. Due to health conditions I'm not able to turn my piles as often as I should. I've noticed it's probably not hot enough b/c it's not breaking down seeds. This year I had tomato plants and pumpkins growing everywhere I used it. 🤣 Can I add Quick Start to my winter pile?
Great tips thanks what is the shelf life? Can I keep it for a year?
I will be right back, off to the pet store!😂
Hey Luke love your channel quick question can you add the quick start to your raised beds?
Thx 😊
What is the name of the fish stuff?
safe start
I hope you can help me, my compost heap when I turn it over has lots of bugs, Question, can I use this compost when starting new seeds or young plants?
I pick up horse manure for a local family for free. It makes the compost break down to beautiful compost in a week or two versus months,
Does this work during during the winter in a rotating composter or will it be too cold in your zone?
Awesome! Ordering on Amazon!
Hi Midwestern!
Great for cold composting which takes forever
What about adding yeast to the solution?
I’d like to see evidence that ur product works better than simply adding a compost starter, specifically in a standard compost pile.
I’m done with “buy this, buy that” used as clickbait.
Evidence.
I'd like to see a comparison with leaf mold and LABS. Both of which are pretty easily producible at home.
I am new to gardening/composting. I am anxious to start using this technique. Can I use my dirty tropical water as well?
As long as there is no salt.
I do this. I call it the mother
I roughly sift my compost before using it. All the stuff that doesn't make it through, I put into my new compost pile.
That's a starter for my next pile. Don't bother buying bacteria mixes, they really aren't needed.
What about composting cold climates? During the winter. Do I stop adding stuff to my compost pile in the winter and just wait till Spring to start up again.
A pile big enough for hot composting should internally generate heat. There are videos of people using very large compost piles with heat exchangers to heat green houses over winter.
There is also hot boxing, essentially the mini version of the above. Huw Richards had a video on those.
Sounds like aquaponics water would have that bacteria in it, so would that help the compost break down faster also?
Absolutely!!
You can achieve the same speed or faster with hot compost
Is that food safe?
Is quick start the same thing as water conditioner?
It needs to have nitrifying bacteria in it. As long as it does it should work!
How do I compost over the winter? Can I still put kitchen scraps in my compost pile during the winter?
If you have access to wood chips, add them and turn it once a week. It will stay hot all winter long.
Yes... I do every year!
@@oddmanout7755 do I cover it to keep the snow off of it?
@@oddmanout7755 what if you can't get wood chips and don't have the physical ability to turn it?
I cover the pile with a lot of leaves in the fall and just before a snow storm or hard freeze I put a folded tarp over it and weigh down the edges.. It doesn't freeze like this and I can still access it to add stuff by shoveling the snow off the tarp and digging a hole in the compost.
I make my own lactobacillus to feed my plants every year. Can I use that as an accelerator?
I would think so....lots of good bacteria there 😊
Yes but it works differently from nitrifying bacteria is my understanding.
The Weedy Gardener uses LABS for his hot composting to generate finished compost within a few weeks.
LABS will speed up the process generating ammonia which nitrifying bacteria like.
Wouldn't the heat kill those bacterias?
11.98 for 16oz. 3.99 for 4 oz on Amazon
Today the 4 oz. bottle is $ 6
jump to 4:00
If anyone has established aquarium, most of these bacteria will be in mulm, on aquarium deco and plants, and in the filter.
I have been watering my plant with aquarium water when I do the water change bu I think I know now where all these stuff can also go to when I have to clean the filter when it get clogged.
put a link to it, make a pretty ¢!
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This is about useless in my opinion. Bacteria double in population every five to twenty minutes depending on species, and will reach carrying capacity for the specific environment they’re i within 48-72 hours, so at best you’re cutting a day or three off of the composting time. Furthermore, nitrifying bacteria do the bulk of their work slowly over the course of the curing stage after the thermophilic bacteria have done their work of breaking things down. The way to speed up compost is to create ideal conditions in terms of particle size (small pieces with high surface area, but not too small so as to ensure plenty of void space for air and water) variety of ingredients (variety is the spice of life and ensures there’s plenty of food sources for a diversity of different microbes thus facilitating a diverse food web and microbial ecological succession) optimized Carbon to Nitrogen ratio, moisture content and aeration. Without optimal environmental conditions, carrying capacity will be reduced and any added microbes will face a lower ceiling on their maximum population potential. With optimal environmental conditions, microbes will quickly populate to carrying capacity on their own without any need for inoculations from outside sources.
about 3 minutes in he finally starts talking about a starter
BUYER BEWARE!
No Amazon product link in your "Show More" section, nor is this shown on your own "If we wouldn't use it we would not endorse it." MIgardener website, so I did some checking... From the product reviews: "When the bottle arrives, it has been in a room temperature box for who knows how long. For nitrifying bacteria to survive, they must be kept refrigerated. Basically you receive a bottle of dead bacteria, which does nothing."
Save your money.
Again what is it called ?
He said it in the beginning of the video... Quick start. It's by API..
Quick Start. Unfortunately it’s $30 for just 118ml in the shops here in Australia!
Nitrofying bacteria
@@murphsviewsthat's crazy! For 500 mL it's only $12 in the US. Is it that much on Amazon?
API Quick Start is what it is called.
The CORRECT answer is..........
MUSHROOMS 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄! ❤
I wonder how this translates to my hugelculture beds?
Your microbes are starving Luke. Go ahead and pee on it. All the cool kids are doing it.
Not me noticing that the shadows when you move looks like a big booger coming out of your nose.
$5? Try $30! And that’s just for the 118ml one!
4 ounces is 3.99 on Amazon
Wonder if you could use this in rain water barrels that have grown algae? I didn't have a lid and I painted it black but algae still grew. I collect it to water my garden. ?????
It won't hurt!
what's not fast dragging out the video