Getting in the dirt and putting your feet on the dirt can help with Depression. It works for me. I just bought a bag of Happy Frog today..lol I appreciate your family for sharing your knowledge freely. Have a good day.- Melanie🦋
Wow Billy! Thanks for teaching this! I have been making compost based on your 18 day method, although mine is much longer than that as I still have my day job. now I have more knowledge on how to use it as potting soil. Thanks to you and William! Love you guys!
Great informative video my friend! Oh yes it’s almost impossible to buy good quality compost/ potting soil from the store! You can’t beat making your own. We appreciate you teaching us like you do. Thanks for sharing this my only pimp friend. 😊👍🏻🙌🏻 GOD Bless Y’all. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😇😇
Looks like some fine potting soil! Can't wait to apply this to my compost heap when it's finished. Nothing better than the scent of fresh forest soil from finished compost 💪
Awesome stuff 😉. I can’t wait to make some with our on 18-day compost 👏🏻👏🏻. I love going barefoot in the yard and I hardly ever wear gloves 😁. God Bless!
My latest compost pile (#5) has a lot of lespedeza for greens. Lespedeza is a nitrogen fixer often used in green manure. So by composting it, It should be a great source of nitrogen. I haven’t yet gotten around to seeds because I needed some good soil first. Mine is gravel and clay. Will finish planting the comfrey tonight. Had to finish the brooder as chicks coming tomorrow morning!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I do things slower, so it seems that way, but you are doing videos and answering questions. I am still trying to get good at composting in 18 days. So far I’ve only finished one pile. I must be doing something incorrectly. If I knew, I’d change it. I think it must be the water content. I’ve never squeezed a single drop, but still get lots of white, dead aerobic bacteria. I’ll get it figured out sooner or later.
@@Whale_Chum it’s a sad shame but it’s going to take lots of practice to get it down perfectly. Never forget that at the very worst you have a really great fortified mulch!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 : Need soil, can’t plant seeds in this hard red stuff. Digging a hole for a tree requires a pick and an axe to cut the roots. Just finding places to plant the comfrey was hard enough. So, first thing is to get this ‘soil’ turned around. Otherwise, I won’t have plants and trees to mulch.
Fantastic end result. That looks incredible. Thanks so much Y'all for showing this process. I know it when it comes to grounding....God bless! I'll leave you with my favorite quote: The economic system of the Bible is agrarian and based upon the supposition that nearly all the people live upon the land and engage in cultural pursuits. It was intended their should be neither poverty nor riches, nor beggary nor great wealth in the land. But that every man should be economically independent and self supporting; possessing his habitation and means of livelihood and enjoying the products of his labor. In short, that he should sit under his vine and fig tree and eat the fruit thereof. According to Biblical law, it is elemental that every man should bare his own burdens, maintain himself and his family and should labor, plant his garden and till his land." H.B. Clark
I walk around barefoot outside all the time!! I get tired when the sun goes down because of it. on the days I dont do it I dont sleep well! I do this with my worm bin :)
I've never sifted the 'potting soil' compost for the whole pot/container. Sifted enough to start the seeds or root a cutting instead. For seeds and cuttings I start out just using 1/4 inch wire to sift. The only other time I make 'compost' not directly in the bed, is when I move to a new place with zero soil to use as a bed topper. Learned real fast not to buy what companies sell bagged or bulk as 'soil' or even 'compost', because what it is is chemical smelling trash and/or dangerous glass shards, metal, asphalt road debris, etc. Probably keeping the coarse compost material throughout the pot temporarily makes up for the fact I've lived just once somewhere with access to sand or gravel. Pretty sure the added sand/gravel makes the potting soil height last longer though? Suppose I should go watch and see how you use that and how long it holds up with the additional gravel/sand. :)
I was looking forward to using my first batch of homemade compost to do just this and after it was done, I left it just sitting on the ground , when I came back to it later on, i found it had a bunch of those Asian Jumping worms in it... Needless to say I'm so sad ans annoyed since it seems like I'm going to have to just get rid of my whole pile somehow now. Has anything like that ever happened to you? I'm not really sure if there's a way get around not throwing it out or burning it.
Three solutions, none nice for the compost, but those new worms are a disaster. High heat, ferment, or multiple deep cold exposure. A tightly enclosed high moisture ferment is most effective. Super gross, I mean seriously bad smell. But also the fastest method. (There is the very bad situation of them arriving on your property in general, but we are going to hope bird delivery to pile vs migration.) Setting it on fire over a solid or bare ground, to catch any escapees, is valid if you are allowed controlled burns. :( I know, that ruins a lot, but it's the thing most likely to kill them and the cocoons. Methods with more chance for failure, but less likely to get you in any outside trouble. Sun: If it gets hot enough in your warm season, around 101f plus, sun bake it. Elevate the pile in the most sun exposed place, and thin it out, so no hiding spots remain. Water it occasionally if possible, unless you have rain. Then pile it in a shaded moist but contained spot where any tough cocoons or dehydrated worms can emerge for 14-30 days. Sun bake again. Freezing: If it gets below freezing for at least 8 hours in your cold season, do the same thing, except it may take longer if you don't get a good 30 days of warm weather in between freeze cycles to stimulate cocoons. Good luck, so sorry this happened to your compost, hope it was an isolated incident in your area. I imagine you already did something with the pile, but the above is in case it happens again, or to others.
@@rainspringing Wow thank you for this, I honestly hadn't really figured out how to deal with this.By fermenting, would that become like a bokachi compost? I was trying to see if they would die if I just bombarded them with acidic foods such as orange peels, pulp, pinapples, onions, garlic. However, it doesnt seem to be doing anything at all, but then again it's a compost pile on the ground, not tightly enclosed. I want them gone as quick as possible so the I guess I just need to find a large container to scoop them into . I am in a no burn subdivision so maybe constantly pouring hot coals in that area would help?
@@azaliasimon1425 most of what I understand about the commercially popular versions of bokashi is it's a dry matter coated in purchased microbes for fermenting, then added to what you want fermented. It's meant to be a bit dry, except at the bottom? Always sounded wasteful to me, with the initial dry product. I'm pretty sure those worms would just drop cocoons and try to curl up in safe spots if possible to wait that out. Or their dropped offspring would just emerge that much more acid tolerant than their biological donors. If it even really bothered them. The ones I've seen don't have adverse reactions to acidic foods. They will invade straight up citrus waste. Coals would likely just make slightly unusable areas they would avoid, but otherwise thrill them with the added general heat. I'd put the entire mass in something like one or two big trash bins. Add waste water until it's like a watery stew. Close the lid, tightly, and let it get gross for a month or more. Depending on your climate, it may dry out before enough time has passed, if so add more waste water. (Wear a very good odor mask when opening that container! haha) I do this for noxious weeds, excessive problem bugs/larvae, diseases and problematic fungal issues. Smells super bad if there are dying things in the slurry. High quantities of dying worms smell exceptionally bad, but usually in such a slurry die fast enough that they can't drop cocoons. I do prefer to fast kill problem excess bugs (smash) vs slower death, but when they get to certain numbers without decent predators coming on, such as with recent imports, or are difficult to get them all, such as cocoons from those worms, the slurry works.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I got lucky today, my neighbor had some rabbit cages next to his shed and I got 6 or 7 cages for 25 dollars and they had the feeders and waterers with them. I'm going to have dual purpose rabbits in them for the meat to eat and the manure for my garden. Im pretty excited about getting it all set up. With these meat prices going up I told my wife we might have to start eating some rabbit. She's not too thrilled about eating Thumper but I sure am. 😆
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you. I know some potting soil's have a lot of bugs in them, so if you put it in the house you can get all kinds of bugs in the house. It might be something we have to try. We could always start with the shop before we try it in the house LOL.
When you use that mix for making soil blocks, remember they're not Brownies ;)
Ha ha!
Thank you!!
❤. Very good video. Thank u
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and not just being a homestead reality show
Thank you so much for that! In all honesty, we are intentionally going in the opposite direction of all of those folks.
Geoff will be well pleased to see how you guys are spreading the knowledge William brought back from oz
Thanks for making it possible bro!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 happy to help.
Your Potting Soil is superb!
Making your own compost is the best way
Thank you for sharing this important information listening from Bangs Texas
Thank you for checking it out!
Another great video, bro!
Another GREAT VIDEO !!! I love it.
Thank you for this.
I think you just saved me a ton of money buying potting soil!
Excellent!
This video is one of many reasons I love your channel. So much knowledge!! Thank you all
Thanks a million!
I'm with you, to me it makes me feel alive when I touch the soil with my hands, I love it!
It’s what we were meant to do!
This is absolutely amazing and grounding... Look since you guys make all of this, my suggestion is to write a book about it.
Thank you for the vote of confidence my friend! If I manage to find some time this winter I’m planning on doing that very thing.
I agree! I'd gladly buy that book
@@samtole Thank you so much my friend!
The screen is a great idea, I am gonna do that! I also put a tarp under the WB cuz every bit is precious lol. Go Patreon!
Getting in the dirt and putting your feet on the dirt can help with Depression. It works for me. I just bought a bag of Happy Frog today..lol I appreciate your family for sharing your knowledge freely. Have a good day.- Melanie🦋
Thank you so much for the kind response my friend! I totally agree that great soil drives the blues away.
My mother just told me how she weeped with happiness in her garden last week. She's had some amazing harvests.
@@busyrand Thats amazing!! Thanks for sharing. Peace 🦋
Wow Billy! Thanks for teaching this! I have been making compost based on your 18 day method, although mine is much longer than that as I still have my day job. now I have more knowledge on how to use it as potting soil. Thanks to you and William! Love you guys!
Yes, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with all of us! What a blessing to us all!
Great explanation and demonstration. I've got a yard of my own compost that i can't wait to start using it around my yard and starting seeds.
That’s the kind of stuff I love hearing!
Best soil mixture ever cheap and affordable.
Right on!
Classy to give credit!!! Thanks for sharing.
Great, great video! One thing I do as well, is to put the barrow on blocks to lift it up so I don't bend over for a long time.....have a great day!
I will definitely take that prescription next time because my back was killing me near the end!
Great informative video my friend! Oh yes it’s almost impossible to buy good quality compost/ potting soil from the store! You can’t beat making your own. We appreciate you teaching us like you do. Thanks for sharing this my only pimp friend. 😊👍🏻🙌🏻 GOD Bless Y’all. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😇😇
It warms my heart to know this stuff is helping so many people. Blessings to you and yours Pastor!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Well your heart should be real warm because it’s really helping a lot of us! Thank you my friend. 👍🏻🙌🏻😊
Looks like some fine potting soil! Can't wait to apply this to my compost heap when it's finished. Nothing better than the scent of fresh forest soil from finished compost 💪
Right on! I’m sorry it took so long to get this video done my friend.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Don't worry about it. I'm just thankful that you share all these videos with us. Looking forward to the rest of them!
Awesome stuff 😉. I can’t wait to make some with our on 18-day compost 👏🏻👏🏻. I love going barefoot in the yard and I hardly ever wear gloves 😁. God Bless!
Thank you ma’am!
My latest compost pile (#5) has a lot of lespedeza for greens. Lespedeza is a nitrogen fixer often used in green manure. So by composting it, It should be a great source of nitrogen. I haven’t yet gotten around to seeds because I needed some good soil first. Mine is gravel and clay. Will finish planting the comfrey tonight. Had to finish the brooder as chicks coming tomorrow morning!
You seem as busy as us!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I do things slower, so it seems that way, but you are doing videos and answering questions. I am still trying to get good at composting in 18 days. So far I’ve only finished one pile. I must be doing something incorrectly. If I knew, I’d change it. I think it must be the water content. I’ve never squeezed a single drop, but still get lots of white, dead aerobic bacteria. I’ll get it figured out sooner or later.
@@Whale_Chum it’s a sad shame but it’s going to take lots of practice to get it down perfectly. Never forget that at the very worst you have a really great fortified mulch!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 : Need soil, can’t plant seeds in this hard red stuff. Digging a hole for a tree requires a pick and an axe to cut the roots. Just finding places to plant the comfrey was hard enough. So, first thing is to get this ‘soil’ turned around. Otherwise, I won’t have plants and trees to mulch.
Fantastic end result. That looks incredible. Thanks so much Y'all for showing this process. I know it when it comes to grounding....God bless! I'll leave you with my favorite quote: The economic system of the Bible is agrarian and based upon the supposition that nearly all the people live upon the land and engage in cultural pursuits. It was intended their should be neither poverty nor riches, nor beggary nor great wealth in the land. But that every man should be economically independent and self supporting; possessing his habitation and means of livelihood and enjoying the products of his labor. In short, that he should sit under his vine and fig tree and eat the fruit thereof. According to Biblical law, it is elemental that every man should bare his own burdens, maintain himself and his family and should labor, plant his garden and till his land."
H.B. Clark
Brilliantly stated! Thank you!
I walk around barefoot outside all the time!! I get tired when the sun goes down because of it. on the days I dont do it I dont sleep well! I do this with my worm bin :)
I’ve been meaning to do it more often because it really does help.
Great info that I can definitely use. Thanks!
It brings joy to our hearts knowing this stuff helps others!
I live near a lake where the lake bed is sometimes soft sand, does that work too?
I've never sifted the 'potting soil' compost for the whole pot/container. Sifted enough to start the seeds or root a cutting instead. For seeds and cuttings I start out just using 1/4 inch wire to sift. The only other time I make 'compost' not directly in the bed, is when I move to a new place with zero soil to use as a bed topper. Learned real fast not to buy what companies sell bagged or bulk as 'soil' or even 'compost', because what it is is chemical smelling trash and/or dangerous glass shards, metal, asphalt road debris, etc.
Probably keeping the coarse compost material throughout the pot temporarily makes up for the fact I've lived just once somewhere with access to sand or gravel. Pretty sure the added sand/gravel makes the potting soil height last longer though? Suppose I should go watch and see how you use that and how long it holds up with the additional gravel/sand. :)
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
If I'm grow tomatoes, other veggies, berries, & flowers in containers. What ratio would you suggest.?
Why is the tree potting soil 1:1?
I was looking forward to using my first batch of homemade compost to do just this and after it was done, I left it just sitting on the ground , when I came back to it later on, i found it had a bunch of those Asian Jumping worms in it... Needless to say I'm so sad ans annoyed since it seems like I'm going to have to just get rid of my whole pile somehow now. Has anything like that ever happened to you? I'm not really sure if there's a way get around not throwing it out or burning it.
I’ll be honest with you… I’ve never heard of anything like that.
Three solutions, none nice for the compost, but those new worms are a disaster. High heat, ferment, or multiple deep cold exposure.
A tightly enclosed high moisture ferment is most effective. Super gross, I mean seriously bad smell. But also the fastest method. (There is the very bad situation of them arriving on your property in general, but we are going to hope bird delivery to pile vs migration.)
Setting it on fire over a solid or bare ground, to catch any escapees, is valid if you are allowed controlled burns. :( I know, that ruins a lot, but it's the thing most likely to kill them and the cocoons.
Methods with more chance for failure, but less likely to get you in any outside trouble.
Sun: If it gets hot enough in your warm season, around 101f plus, sun bake it. Elevate the pile in the most sun exposed place, and thin it out, so no hiding spots remain. Water it occasionally if possible, unless you have rain. Then pile it in a shaded moist but contained spot where any tough cocoons or dehydrated worms can emerge for 14-30 days. Sun bake again.
Freezing: If it gets below freezing for at least 8 hours in your cold season, do the same thing, except it may take longer if you don't get a good 30 days of warm weather in between freeze cycles to stimulate cocoons.
Good luck, so sorry this happened to your compost, hope it was an isolated incident in your area. I imagine you already did something with the pile, but the above is in case it happens again, or to others.
@@rainspringing Wow thank you for this, I honestly hadn't really figured out how to deal with this.By fermenting, would that become like a bokachi compost?
I was trying to see if they would die if I just bombarded them with acidic foods such as orange peels, pulp, pinapples, onions, garlic. However, it doesnt seem to be doing anything at all, but then again it's a compost pile on the ground, not tightly enclosed. I want them gone as quick as possible so the I guess I just need to find a large container to scoop them into .
I am in a no burn subdivision so maybe constantly pouring hot coals in that area would help?
@@azaliasimon1425 most of what I understand about the commercially popular versions of bokashi is it's a dry matter coated in purchased microbes for fermenting, then added to what you want fermented. It's meant to be a bit dry, except at the bottom? Always sounded wasteful to me, with the initial dry product.
I'm pretty sure those worms would just drop cocoons and try to curl up in safe spots if possible to wait that out. Or their dropped offspring would just emerge that much more acid tolerant than their biological donors. If it even really bothered them. The ones I've seen don't have adverse reactions to acidic foods. They will invade straight up citrus waste.
Coals would likely just make slightly unusable areas they would avoid, but otherwise thrill them with the added general heat.
I'd put the entire mass in something like one or two big trash bins. Add waste water until it's like a watery stew. Close the lid, tightly, and let it get gross for a month or more. Depending on your climate, it may dry out before enough time has passed, if so add more waste water. (Wear a very good odor mask when opening that container! haha)
I do this for noxious weeds, excessive problem bugs/larvae, diseases and problematic fungal issues. Smells super bad if there are dying things in the slurry. High quantities of dying worms smell exceptionally bad, but usually in such a slurry die fast enough that they can't drop cocoons. I do prefer to fast kill problem excess bugs (smash) vs slower death, but when they get to certain numbers without decent predators coming on, such as with recent imports, or are difficult to get them all, such as cocoons from those worms, the slurry works.
Do you guys do any worm composting? I've been thinking about setting up Geoff Lawtons method of worm composting with an old bathtub.
We did in Texas but haven’t gotten around to it here yet.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 i love how simple and rewarding it is.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I got lucky today, my neighbor had some rabbit cages next to his shed and I got 6 or 7 cages for 25 dollars and they had the feeders and waterers with them. I'm going to have dual purpose rabbits in them for the meat to eat and the manure for my garden. Im pretty excited about getting it all set up. With these meat prices going up I told my wife we might have to start eating some rabbit. She's not too thrilled about eating Thumper but I sure am. 😆
@@jaysonvance594 I think that is a brilliant move!
good vid!!!
Thank you sir!
Why if u don’t have access to cow manure
Can you use this as indoor potting soil? Thank you!
We’ve never tried it that way.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you. I know some potting soil's have a lot of bugs in them, so if you put it in the house you can get all kinds of bugs in the house. It might be something we have to try. We could always start with the shop before we try it in the house LOL.
Maybe some pregnant ladies might eat that, the ones needing some minerals wanting to eat clay etc. lol 😂
Hmmm…might not be a bad idea.
I was one of those who bought TWO truck loads of "UGA Specially Formulated" garden soil that ended up being completely void of any nutrients. 🤬
That annoys me sooo much because these people know full well that they are selling junk.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Amen!