When To Add Compost To Garden Beds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2021
- The timing of When To Add Compost To Garden Beds can have a big impact on your ability to improve soil life with compost. How often to add compost to garden beds is something i get asked a lot because adding compost as a mulch in spring will give your garden a real boost. It's important to understand when to add compost to plants and how to add compost to garden beds in order to get the most out of this precious resource.
This video will show you how to add compost to the garden in spring to build garden fertility using compost and allow the worms to work compost into the soil using mulch with compost.
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my neighbour has just cut down an enormous privet hedge and given me about 10 40-litre bags of woodchips. I have laid some on a path that needed topping up and the rest is going into a compost bin to rot down over the coming year... I am getting ever more resourceful as a result of this gardening lark!
That will break down in no time, especially with all the leaves mixes in, very nice
Nice video matey. Loads of info in here, I have some views on my own on this subject and we all need to bring in the soil life. Great stuff
Thanks mate, i'll get the results of the research and experiment i mentioned out soon
Hou Tony ! I see you on everywere 😅 . Do you make a lifestream this week ? Have a Nice day . Greetings from jp (Belgium ) 👍
graet information thank you
So glad you found it useful
Good video brother, thanks
Glad you liked it
Very helpful. I can always count on you to break down gardening myths.
Thanks Phil, it's really important to think things through and experiment with trying different methods
Interseting vid. My allotment is over 100 years old and I have amazing soil. The amount of worms is unreal. I only add fertilizer to the soil a week before planting.
I wish I could keep chickens on my plot. They are the best, but in my 20 years of having the allotment I know of a few people who have lost their chickens to vandals killing them, or foxes.
Good video mate.
Worms are such an important indicator of soil health. Chickens are brilliant, i've had a few losses to foxes ver the years but the worst damage was done by my neighbours dog last year
Great information Mothin. I wish I could make more compost but what I do make is really good. Stay well. Best wishes Bob.
Thanks Bob hope you are well. There's nothing better than homemade compost with local ingredients
Thank you, since I've learnt about composting I hardly throw away vegetables and eggshells in the bin. 😊
brilliant it's so imprtant to not waste anything
Waalaikumsalam, masyaallah, nice video🌷
Jazakallah khair
Thanks for this, really helpful...this year was the first year i used leaf mould.
Leaf mould is amazing stuff
Brilliant video once again. Those gardens do look very well. Lovely soil. Best channel on youtube.
thanks Matthew, the soil is getting there, i still think it needs some work
Absolutely beautiful soil!
it's taken a while to get it like this
Good video
Thanks 👍
Great information, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Glad it was helpful!
Walaikumassalam warahmatullah brother good sharing.. jazzakAllah
Walaikum salaam, barakallah feek
You make some very good points. Thank you. :)
i think it's important to try and see thing holistically and the impact of wat we do on the wider environment
Great detail - learn so much ta
Thanks Christopher, I'll share the results of the other experiment soon
I always add mulch and nutrients in the fall, just to keep the worms interested, if they have nothing to do over the winter they won't reproduce and will leave. Cracking video Monty.
♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.
Cheers Terry, I really like adding mulch in autumn to protect the soil if i'm late planting cover crops, as the soil temp drops below 10c they slow down in their eating and reproduction, if the soil freezes they tend to sink down deep and wait till the freeze is over.
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Interesting video. I garden in a windy area, exposed soil particles are blown away and reveal more stones. I like to have compost or lawn mowings covering the soil to keep the structure. Both mulches retain moisture and don't seem to blow about as much. I also have a less cold climate, I still have over wintering brassicas, garlic, chard and leaks in the ground. All mulches are placed around the crops. Keep safe.
I'm 💯% with you on the use of grass clippings. With compost I like to cover it because on a site like you describe the wind will blow away some compost especially when dry, and because it's a precious resource I wouldn't want to waste any of it. We've just pulled the last of big brassicas (we don't grow a lot because we don't eat much in our diet) still plenty of chard, Pak choi, mustard leaves to pick
@@MyFamilyGarden It rains a lot here in Wales so the compost doesn't dry out like small soil particles. It mats together well and doesn't seem to blow off the raised beds. My brassicas are cut and come again as I'm only cooking for 1. A handful of Brussel sprouts rather than 1 giant cabbage. Wet and mild Wales with Dry Stone walls, Pak choi has no chance against rampaging slugs and snails! Enjoy yours.
Assalamu Alaikum thank you for your channel! Masha'Allah good man. love from Australia!
Nice video
Thanks
Another amazing video. Thank you.
Looking forward to seeing you harvest your garlic. I pretty much put mine down using your technique last November after seeing your video for the first time. Cardboard not as decomposed as yours though. 🙏🌍🌱
I think a cat might have helped lol. But adding the compost on top cardboard will make it breakdown faster
Interesting mate👍🏼. Your soil looks pretty good and you get decent results so you are definitely doing a good job. Take care. Nick
I'm quite happy with it considering what i started with, someof the stuff could have been used for make pots
G'day Mate long Time....Still be watching
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Thanks mate, It might cause some controversy amongst some though.
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Hasn’t compost as a soil amendment been used for thousands of years. It’s only since the past couple of centuries that NPK industrial fertilisers have been used.
Yes compost has been used I'm speaking from a modern western perspective, the use of compost has only recently started taking off even more so now with the push back against synthetic fertilisers, so the scientific analysis of the effects of compost on the environment are nowhere near as rich
Composting has been a practice for thousands of years.
Great info Monty. Such a shame we can’t put the girls to work on our beds just now. Roll on the end of chicken lockdown. Take care. Mags
Looking forward to that, I need to replenish my flock this year, miss having my crazy chickens
@@MyFamilyGarden ooh yes. Get some more Monty 😁😁😁
I'm hoping the BHWT will do their adoptions soon or the auctions will open again soon, but if not I might just find a local breeder
Best idea ever, get the chicken to do the work!
They do a fantastic job
Mothin, an interesting video. During this awful lockdown I have been looking at different ways of doing things on my allotment and I came across “regenerative agriculture”. Too much information to explain here but if you are interested look up Gabe Brown on TH-cam. A lot of what he does is what you are doing on a smaller scale but you are achieving similar results and three of his key points are no till (dig), “armour on the soil” (always have your soil covered” and seasonal, varied cover crops. I am experimenting on a small scale with some of his methods and so far it is looking good but this coming growing will be the proper test. Keep safe.
I've looked into regen agg and heard a few talks by gabe brown. a lot of this teaching stems from Massanobu Fukuoka and absolute visionary, if you get a chance to look into his work you should, he's inspired a lot of the permaculture practices and regen agg
Thanks for another great video! You mentioned how both earthworms and composting worms are required. How can I tell the difference and where can I source these?
If you create the environment they will arrive on their own, so add lots of mulch and stuff for tem to eat, keep the soil moist
Hi, great video as always. I have been inspired to use my chickens old bedding as compost, and although i'm pleased with it, it does look different from compost I had delivered. The shop bought compost was very dark brown, whilst my chicken compost is much lighter. Do you know why this might be? Do you think my compost is poorer quality than shop bought?I am using a soil sieve to remove the larger pieces of organic matter. We'll see how things grow in it. I'm feeling hopeful because I've got loads of it!
The shop stuff is composted at really high temperatures really fast so ends up being really dark. Homemade stuff will generally be more nutritious, some of it may not be fully broken down but that will help the garden by breaking down in situ.
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I think the reason people say not to use compost is that it doesn't do as much to increase the organic matter in the soil compared with wood chips, straw, hay, etc but I'd rather apply my compost in autumn so it has longer to decompose before the slugs attack in Spring.
I don't tell anyone not to use compost, i only tell them to be smart about the way they do. I don't have an issue with applying it in autmun either but it should be covered with something organic, ideally with something living
My plant beds are dry. Could you tell me once I’ve placed cardboards on my flowering beds what do put on top to create great soil?
Add grass clippings, kitchen scraps, straw, manure, woodchips
Try this
th-cam.com/video/DJpUVZyy06Q/w-d-xo.html
Thanks I will give it a go.
Hello, great video.Thank you.
I'm planning to make some raised beds soon for planting out my seedlings.
I was intending to fill these with organic compost ( shop bought as havnt made any myself yet..but have purchased a cheap plastic compost bin to try out in the future).
Anyway, was wondering, what should I be adding to this compost? Probably a silly question but I am a novice gardener and this is my first year trying to grow veggies.
Before watching this video I was intending to just fill the raised beds with compost only..but now I'm bit confused.
Any advice would be very welcome.
How big are the raised beds, and are they on soil or concrete? Do you have access to garden soil?
@@MyFamilyGarden They are going to be on soil..planning to have maybe three..not made yet..one small 1metre square and others maybe 2metre by 1 metre..
Other veggies I'm gonna try in large buckets/ containers.
This will help on filling your containers th-cam.com/video/1V39Pkw2vJA/w-d-xo.html
If they're a foot deep or more it might we worth using fillers like in the video I just linked. If they're shallow filling them with compost is fine I'd just cover the compost to protect it
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IIRC Charles Dowding maintains that compost mulches do not lose nutrient through leaching.
Unfortunately that's his opinion. He'd be right if it was a simple comparison to synthetic fertilisers but it's not true as an absolute. There's a few scientific articles discussing the problems of compost leaching nutrients, I discussed this with his partner... but unfortunately she ignored the science
For a simple demonstration all we have to do is consider compost tea, the nutrients dissolve in water and the larger particles remain suspended in water.
@@MyFamilyGarden I think I know who you mean and she is resolute in her opinions! :) That said you can't deny CD's results! One mulch per year and 2 or three different harvests from the same area giving fantastic results. Your compost tea argument isn't really leaching nutrients though when you consider making it is merely extracting beneficial microorganisms. You mention the science behind your claims, can you link to one/some? Trying not to sound argumentative but your opinion is at odds to what I have believed thus far! :))
Won't it depend on the age and type of compost used. I would have thought partly composted chicken manure would leach more than fully matured chicken manure compost, compost made from wood chips or leaf mould.
I don't deny his results but at the same time those 2/3 harvests are mainly of quick growing salad crops, I achieve the same results using interplanting.
Your refering to actively aerated compost tea, I'm referring to steeped compost tea so not necessarily just the microbes but the actual nutrients.
@@MikeJRe2ipi I think you only followed half of what i said, the chickens are on the bed only for long enough to work the bed which on a bed that size is only a day or two, there's not that much manure prouced at that time, and it's done when dry, then covered with compst and planted straight away so there's living plants there in a very short time period.
The key is to get the nitrogen and phosphoros converted into biologically held and stable form in the bodies of soil microbes. It doesn't leach that way, and is also in the ideal form that plants want. Another advantage to this is that you can improve the efficiency of both photosynthesis and water use. When nitrogen is already in the biological amino acid form, the plant can save a great deal of energy by not needing to synthesize those more complex compounds, as they are coming prefabricated.
Absolutely, part of my argument is that soil microbes slow down in winter so it's been to apply compost in spring
Can i sow coriander now outdoor
Might still be a bit cold, maybe in a couple of weeks
Is it spring or winter
So confused
Spring is coming... Inshallah
Assalamualikum
Walaikum salaam
Is the chicken lockdown due to avian flu over in the UK?
Yes, there's been quite a few cases
You make use of cardboard a lot. I’ve always been reluctant because I don’t like the idea of the glues used in cardboard getting into the soil. Have you seen research to know that cardboard doesn’t lead to undesirable chemicals getting into the soil and food chain. Enjoying your videos.
I've looked into cardboard but it's confusing a lot of old information is mixed with new. Such as toxic inks containing heavy metals but modern inks are mainly veg based and glues are mainly starch based. I haven't gone too far beyond that.
But we get cereal in boxes although not touching the food directly other foods like pizza do so I figured if I'm comfortable with that then it's ok to use but it's probably not the most scientific method...
🙈 Dnt like 🐛 worms
They're a gardeners best friend 😂🤣😂
These best friends put me off gardening lol
Have you tried holding one
Wrong question. Lol question should be have I been near those 🐛. Answer is NOOOO
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