How to Compost Food Waste in Winter -- With or Without a Compost Bin
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- Learn how to compost food waste in the winter! Even if you don't have a compost bin or your garden is frozen, here's how to compost kitchen scraps and keep them out of the landfill!
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► Timestamps
00:00 Welcome and intro
00:10 When the weather turns cold
01:30 Food scraps as a resource!
02:30 The "collection container "in the kitchen
03:50 The 2 ways to deal with food scraps
04:50 Benefits of covered raised beds
06:10 Tip #1: Dig-and-Drop composting
06:39 Tip #2: The "Compost Closet"
07:00 How to avoid a stinky mess
07:15 The benefits of leaves
08:20 Options if your garden is frozen
08:40 Tour of our compost setup
09:50 My experiment with winter composting
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Thank you! I love your ideas and it is helpful for those of us that don't have money.
Donna, since I started writing a weekly garden column 35 years ago, my goal has always been, first and foremost, to keep things simple and uncomplicated and to share what really works. No fluff. So, I'm happy to be of service! Blessings and happy holidays, and all day.
I will try mixing my food scraps with leaves and let it sit in a covered bin. Thanks for the idea!
Hi Rita... leaves are great -- for one thing, they are loaded with microbes just sitting in the wings to get to work on your food scraps. Sawdust is good, as are smashed sunflower stalks, TP and paper towel rolls... Go for it and keep me posted. Hope you had a great growing season!
Thank you for sharing your experience! All very useful information that will help me design my compost system. I’m excited to stop throwing away my food scraps in the garbage.
When I stopped tossing my food scraps and started composting them or digging them right into the garden, it felt like some special kind of freedom.
What an awesome job you have done with this video, So grateful for the ideas you have shared. I have grown in understanding thanks to your efforts my Friend. God Bless!
Thank you kindly. Help spread the good-gardening -- and composting -- word with your friends. Meanwhile, cheers and blessings to you today and all days.
I didn’t know you could compost in winter. Thank you for showing how. See you soon.
Yes... composting in the winter, or any time actually, has to do with the INSIDE temperature. So I try my best to compost as long as possible. Happy to hear from you. THANKS! 😍
A great video. Thank you.
Thanks Mike... I take video-creation requests as in if there is a topic that needs covering, let me know. Cheers and happy holidays.
in the winter, I run my scraps through a blender with water and pour it in my garden beds or around various locations in my yard. come spring, the worms have taken care of it.
Wahoo! Works are such heroes. And I like the blend and pour method too. Keep composting!
I have 3 tumblers.I tey to have all 3 empty by fall.Then as I pull out stuff.I pack them full ...I might top off 2 and keep one some space to add kitchen scraps every few days.I like knowing in fall I will have a couple tumblers ready in late spring when I need it and again in fall when I put bed down fir winter.
Sounds like a good plan... Leaves are a big help to keep food bits fluffed up. Happy composting and good luck in spring!
@TheUpBeetGardener yes..we mulch ours for our yard but our neighbor bags hers so I grab them and just save in shed.I used about 2 bags throughout the year...especially in summer.I could just grab a few handfuls when I add greens..
Thanks for a great video, Marion! You're such an inspiring teacher!!
Thank you, Eva... and may you and Sir Steve enjoy a wonderful holiday season. 😍
Thanks, Marion! No "Sir" Steve here ; )) Wishing you and Marty a blessed holiday!
@@evac.b.3477 What are your temperatures like these days?
@@TheUpBeetGardener Currently, it's either -6F or -11F, depending on which thermometer we read. One's by the porch, and the other one by the driveway (chillier one). Hope Kodiak is a bit balmier : )
@@evac.b.3477 mid 20's to low 40's F -- so far, snowflake photography has eluded me!
Not much point making compost in 6 weeks if Spring is 13 weeks away. Patience is a very useful skill for a gardener. I am a leaf-mold obsessive and I have 2 bins for that (but as it decomposes I put them together - because it saddens me that I kind of lose biomass). I have an ordinary heap that I jiggle a bit but don't really turn. I have tried worms and bokashi but not too successfully. I admit it I love composting😂😂😂❤
Interesting about Bokashi... I've not heard much success with it... I love composting, too!!!😀
I am surprised that you add chicken bones and pizza crusts to your compost closet. Won't those scraps encourage mice and other vermin?
Hi Peter... Good question! And thank you for asking... Actually, adding chicken bones, egg shells, pizza crusts, and salmon skin (we have lots of wild salmon in Alaska!) to a hot compost pile is no problem, so long as the pile is hot (140+ degrees F) and you add it to the center, either AS you build the pile or adding it when you turn the pile. I cover what to do about vermin such as rats in my video, "Rats in Your Compost" here: th-cam.com/video/u4ueFpf4TNQ/w-d-xo.html
@@TheUpBeetGardener Thank you Marion.
You talk too much, get to the point
Got it!
@@TheUpBeetGardener actually thank you,I didn't mean anything bad, sorry for my behavior.keep up the good work ty
I understand, @@Zouhair-rg4hy Thank you for your forthrightness.