Anaerobic compost, bad ? why ? how to prevent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- A look into Anaerobic compost why it happens what are the main causes and how to prevent it happening. Anaerobic compost is bad for plants and contains nasty pathogens dangerous to humans, how can we prevent this and what are the signals given that tell us it is happening.
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Great video. I’d love to have a go at making a hot bin but I’m scared to death of rats and I do wonder if they attract them, I’m new to growing veg so I’ve only ever put a few bits of veg waste on my heap. It’s mainly flower stuff I put on there. Hopefully if you manage to make a “rat proof “ one I might have a go. Cheers Deb
Hi Deb, you will get rats in any sort of bin actually, yes I did rat proof it with netting but going to start over in order to build the new aerobic hot bins. Can't wait to get started. Cheers. 👍
Lovely well presented video on my favorite subject. Even though it went anerobic after you have turned it out it has started to look lovely. Lol the wasp in January 🙂
Yes I know bud, straight in my damn ear 😁 Cheers.
I get lots of grass in the cutting season so I add it to the pile as I turn it however it still goes anaerobic from time to time, I have lots of leaves to add this year. Great video 😁👍👌
Great mix nick rotted wood chip would be great to add also. Cheers. 👍
I use shredded brown cardboard boxes mixed with the grass clippings.
I reckon I get through at least 200kg of cardboard a year & actually need to add water to my bays to keep the bacteria going.
Great video on compost, lots of good information, wasp im janiary lol
@@markshaw5835 cheers Mark, my first ear wasp of the year. 😂
Loz, you are absolutely right, and I see what you mean from your recent comment. It really is an art! I found from the "Hotbin" the finished result can smell sulphuric towards the base. Perhaps slightly more decomposed woody/leafy matter (chippings) are required. Not forgetting, if it's anerobic it's like a swamp breeding bad stuff!
That's right bud depending on the amount of greens going in the moisture also drains down, mine runs out of the base but the compost is still wet down there, I generally put a layer of twiggy dried out stems in first when I fill a bin just helps the moisture drain better. My new bins won't have that problem having an air gap underneath the compost. Cheers. 👍
@@thevegplot I hope your new bins really pay off. Each new design is improved. It is an art which you have learnt lots about. Charles...he always seems to get great compost and heat whilst not saturated. 👌🏼
@Agui007 that's right Charles is on it, he always has the materials stored that he needs to incorporate into the compost. 👍
@@thevegplot Loz, may I ask your advice please building the bins? If it's possible, I may have to send you photos if that's suitable?
@Agui007 yes you can get my email of my home page on here mate. Cheers.
Getting enough carbon into my bin has always been a challenge and the resulting compost has always lacked structure and slumped a bit although it didn't really smell. Being on clay soil I feel like carbon is what my soil needs more than anything else. Luckily I've found a large supply of leaves and woodchip last year so it's going to be interesting what difference this will make.
@@RFranks hi yes I'm on clay as you may know, leaves dry plant matter and chip are great for fungus that breaks up clay, rye roots etc can then get in clay is full of minerals that's why the fungi go in, it's steady progress for the fungi but they do the job over time. I must dig into the woodchip paths soon where the top soil is shallow and compare that to the beds next to them which have had the compost, see if the pure chip has made a difference Cheers.
Do you still have your channel about rocket stoves and knife making.
I never see new videos.
Hope you are keeping well.
Best wishes from Ireland
Hi Mark yes it's still there but it must be a year since I uploaded to it, just done nothing in the workshop in that time for various reasons. 👍
I have made anaerobic compost through throwing leftover things in a bottle and shut it. Forgotten it for months and when i pour out, it smelled like earth.
However, anaerobic compost that was poured out within a short time stunk 😂😂.. I think it's more to do with the time frame 🤷🏻♀️
@@jov80 hi yes I'm aware there are anaerobic composting methods in use which must be good or people would not do them, also your right given time the aerobic microbes begin to take over composting. I worked on a farm some years back where 5 ton of animal waste was buried the idea was it would compost in the ground, 2 years later it was dug out and the smell was horrendous, I couldn't stand it, it looked just like it did when it was buried. It was then put into an open heap and mixed with straw and turned every 2 weeks, 3 months later the smell had almost gone but never seen as many fly's on a heap 😁
@thevegplot Could it be because there were too much animal waste at the same time? If we look at cemeteries, after burial, the body would decompose without us turning the heap, right 🤔
Anyway, the way I throw the leftovers and scraps into bottles, I don't do them at one go. I just throw in whenever i wash up after cooking or cleaning up. I supposed by opening the bottle every few days to add in new ones, that action introduced new oxygen into the bottle? 🤷🏻♀️
@ yes if there is contact with air then the aerobic will happen and decomposes faster im no expert on bodies but I guess after the air in the coffin is exhausted then anaerobic take over which is much slower vs a body laying on the surface which would be much faster with various forms of insects involved, similar in a way to aerobic microbes. my farm story I was really saying be it a small pile or large without enough air it becomes anaerobic, putrefies gives off gas and does not break down in a healthy way, they buried the waste into heavy clay and covered it with what was dug out essentially excluding air, left on the surface in the first place it would have been gone in 6 months. Even buried anaerobic compost given time will fully break down but before it does it will damage plants given the pathogenic microbes in it. Cheers.
I shred at least 200kg of cardboard a year to add to green matter.
Corrugated cardboard does NOT flatten any more than straw & is higher in carbon.
Anaerobic compost is no more dangerous than any other compost.
@@GARDENER42 from the sound research and my own observations over the years all the evidence is that it harms plants, also the cardboard does compress within 3 days in my hotbins again I can only tell it as it is. Cheers.
Never really been successful at making compost i have three large council bins and drilled holes in the bottom. Always tons of worms but doesnt look like yours bud.😢
@GeorgeGauge-r2h Hi George I discovered the hot bin principle years ago it was interesting to me, in the 1980s I had a huge garden with a veg plot at the end a little bigger than a half plot allotment. I had no dig raised beds and a 3 pallet bay open compost bin set up. I remember it took over a year to get around half a bin of fairly average compost from them and relied on bringing in cow and horse manure to dress the beds Since I built the first bin on here and learned how to use them they make much nicer compost than I could back then. Cheers.