Building A Compost Bin From Scrap | Frosty Mornings And Prepping For A busy Year In The Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Brrrrrrrr!!!! It has been cold here on the homestead but with that comes beautiful frosty mornings. Last week we told you about all of our big plans on the homestead this year. This week we made sure to get off to a good start by building our first compost heap to nourish all the veggies we want to grow. Best bit is we made it for free!
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Well done you both 👏👏👏
Charlotte , your opening sequences were stunning.. Yay👏👏👏
I’m loving your forward planning..
Go Carlos!! Funny little infrastructure will ultimately make a huge difference to your farm..
love you both❤️🐨❤️🐶
Thanks so much 😊
Used coffee grounds are great to put in your compost. Maybe from a local cafe
Oh dont worry I used to manage hipster cafes back in London so carlos and I are big coffee snobs and have buckets of coffee grounds in our house haha. We used it to fertilize our lemon tree when we planted and worked wonders!
One more thing. For things to break down faster, like orange peels or cabbage, banana skins etc cut them into smaller chunks. As I mentioned before, these can be dug right into your garden. They don’t have to be put in your compost. Onion skins and banana skins can be put right on top of your garden around your plants.
WELL DONE👋👋
Good idea to make a list of all the taks that you would like to do. At each taks you can than put all the items you need to do it. If you do not have one item, wait until you have it or be inventif. For the compost, do you have some woods where you can take some soil ? Also, collect the leaves, some old and/or tiny branches of wood, cardboards and put them in your compost,
Take some time to do it and enjoy the journey 😀😀😀
we have so many old leaves from some big old oak and apple trees we have on the land. we also have lots of vine trimmings that we want to break down and add, aswell as some old wood that is a bit past saving. hoping that this mixed with food scraps and grass cuttings will make a nice balance of carbon and nitrogen. Im making a calander of when things ned to be planted and when certain jobs need doing to hopefully keep us on track. although i am a little worried there will never be enough time to get everything we want done...done haha 😅😃
Oak leaves make the soil acidic. It is better to use leaves from fruit trees or other deciduous trees. The soil in oak woods is good for berry bushes, such as blueberries.
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All that frost 😮 on no !
we know it was gooing to get prety cold and where quite prepared dont worry. we only lost one letuce which was doing to well anyway 😅
@@TheSunnySaudadeProject i am worried about some citrus trees we planted at the beginning of December, and a banana tree we got from @PortugalFromScratch
@@thefatbakeroh cool you did meet up with Kirsty.😊
I’m sure you know not to put in any meat products. It needs some soil, some leaves and the fruit and veggie waste. I do my compost in a plastic garbage can with holes all over it. Small scale. And it needs turning over semi regularly. I think you’ll find it takes months to have any useable compost. However, if you have room in your garden you could actually cut up the waste and put it directly in your garden. Garden beds like bananas too and onion skins help keep away some intruders.
hey! yh I went on a big hot composting research binge right sfter building this and since mr fox has been coming around so we will be avoiding anything that will atract him. we have a real big mix of carbon and nitrogen based ingreidient all over the farm so we are expecting it to fill up prety fast. hopefully by may we will have useable compost as im with you I think march might be a bit short for it to fully break down. when you put soil in can you just churn up the stuff bellow or is it best to add some in layers? The videos I have been watching didnt really use it but used wet straw between the earth and rest of compost but I want to speed up the process as much as possible.
What are those trees behind the compost?
Esse serrote que estão a usar não é próprio para esse trabalho,tem de ter um serrote de podar
Egg shells should be washed out and dried before putting in the compost otherwise they’ll attract animals.