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You could fine sift compost from it but that’s more work

I love turning compost

Are Root knot Nematodes the same as club root?

Good job! Several comments are in order: Lack of moisture is one of your big problems. You need more coffee grounds! Do a Carbon Nitrogen calculation and you will see that you need way more nitrogen. Finally, urine is like lighter fluid for a wood chip coffee ground pile. I started a big pile in Northern Indiana on Dec 17. My ratio is: One large gardenway cart of chips, 2x 5 gallon buckets of coffee grounds, and 2 gallons of urine. Build a large conical pile with this ratio. My pile went up to 160 degrees through the coldest part of January. I found that if the temperature starts dropping, add water. To add water, I took a 4' piece of ½" steel pipe and cut and pounded one end to a tip. Then. I drilled a whole bunch of holes near that end. Hook the other end up to a hose and poke the pipe deep into the pile and slowly pull out, many times all around the pile. You are watering to the center AND adding air channels. By March my pile had dropped to 120. I will be opening it up soon to add to my garden. The outer layer is black but is still pretty chunky. I have high hopes for the inside. I'll post a video soon.

I wonder if drained bokashi liquid would help kickstart the heat? Have you tried that?

yep, got them this year. didnt know why the tomatoes etc produced so poorly, until dug them up. dont have the space and time to be planting marigolds. i bought trichodermas and doing to apply them to seedlings when planting out. no dig, like other organic snakeoil, is fake news. farmers overworking soil with machinery regularly is one thing, but telling home gardeners to not dig soil and instead keep bringing in loads of compost etc., is counter productive. "organic" is nothing more than a cult, that lied their way to people's hearts and minds, poisoning them with dogma over substance. replacing the topsoil with composted wood is so called no-dig, it's nuts. get rid of the boxes, and you wont be boxed in. it's another expensive thing peddled to the masses by organic fraternity.

Brassica & marigold families are totally immune to nematodes. Til their leaves into the soil to kill nematodes. Mushrooms will reach out and kill nematodes too. Diversify your soil and plants.

Urine. Add all your daily urine… there’s your liquid and your N

Dang shes " knotty " 🪢➰ . Thats a very very ancient symbol with a warning if you can figure it out # beware the female narcissist # she devils 🤳🪱

Omg dont get me started on the wasted space at local parks. Playgrounds are amazing but there are parks that are literally just big grass fields or even the decorative landscaping outside of malls... Why are we not buildingini food forests in every space?! They are state maintained anyway so why not put them to work feeding people? Lol! I could go on about that forever

Your videos are so to the point and i love you said just do it 😩 I've been questioning myself about seed starting lol

This is sooooo helpful thank you so much.

Interesting video. I have a grinder that I can use to break down the material, and a trommel to screen to 1/2 inch; once I get my bins built I will try this as I waas wondering if one could get it going.

I know this is an older video, but it's more important now than ever.❤

In the cool months grow Mustards. They can be added back into the soil the same way the marigolds were to fight the root nematodes.

Completely Saturate your chips, run your sprinkler VERY SLOW. Check your pile weekly and add water to keep it damp.

try using this fungi its effective at naturally eating nematodes Trichoderma harzianum it gave amazing results here in Dubai UAE, its sandy desert envifoment and nematodes tend to go crazy in sand here

I have woodchips delivered daily to my house. I use them in my good forest. They'll break down on their own and they do get hot. They won't catch fire though. Too much moisture. Also cooks off termites. I used woodchip mulch and it's really good.

I'm interested to see how long a wood chip pile would stay at 120F? before it needs turning. I'm not too concerned about making compost I just want to utilise the heat.

I made up a complete compost heap within pallet’s fully lined with wood lathes. At the base I had porous plastic pallet. The uncomposted pile consisted of fine wood chip less than 0.5cm , 20% coffee grounds , 10% cardboard , 10% grass cut,10% weeds,10% household food waste. The whole pile was saturated with rain water and 5 litres of concentrated comfrey poured on the top. Over the top I placed a 100mm kingspan insulation panel. The thermometer read 65c one week later. The 1.5m2 pile dropped by 10 %. Intend to top up with same mix in a weeks time. I have found that with woodchip and coffee grounds I don’t need to turn the ventilation is okay. I will spike with a thin metal spike to open up a bit. I will turn into new bin in 12 weeks and add water if necessary. 12 weeks later I will turn into a new bin with the same type /amount of nitrogen no weeds but comfrey leaves + cardboard .Usually the pile will heat up to 40c. 12 weeks later I will turn again without adding anything into my maturing pile. Red worms then start to proliferate their way throughout the pile. The process takes two years . But I have three 1.5m2 bins and two maturing bins of 2m2.

Hi. Any updated videos about this?

Maybe if you took care dozen or so shovel full of dirt and put a thin layer over the woodchip pile before you water it. Like a couple inches water it sold out of the dirt will fall into the woodchip pile they'll throw a little bit more dirt on their water it again. See if that added dirt helps the bacteria to multiply

Davide, thanks for sharing. I am also in Sacramento, just discovered your chanel! Do you also direct sow your cool crops? Or do you start everything in the green house and then wait till March to plant in the garden?

Very helpful video! Clear, quality filming and thorough. Thanks!

Must the male flower come from a second plant, or can you use a male and female from the same plant?

I have many of those! The nematodes 😱 thanks for the reminder information! Regards from Arizona 🏜

As an aside … that was awesome, zingy music.

I piled up wood chips with the intention of using it for paths a year later it had turned into a nice compost after fungi had broken it down without heat.

Keep adding urine to it. There's plenty of free nitrogen in there.

Beneficial nematodes is the way to go good luck

When is it good time to start setting up the bed with top soil and start sowing these kale and brassica, carrot seeds for fall + winter growth? Wanted to find out from Sacramento resident for similar weather

Matt Powers solution is to build your soil health to keep bad nematodes and other bad bacteria in check. Natural remedies that are provided by nature to heal itself.

Listening to the birds is delightful

Very well done

If the squashes (you are wanting to save seeds from) are from different squash species, you don't have to do this. Only necessary if growing varieties within the same species. Cheers! Good technique though.

Does this have to be kept in a sunny area Or can it be kept in the shade under a tree?

Man I’m telling you, I’m so stoked to learn this method. My wife loves all squash and I’m a seed saver wannabe. I was really anxious about cross pollination of Squash, Pumpkin & Cucumbers as well as Gourds. This is a great way of saving seed for them. I just have to get up in the morning… when’s that? Oh and what’s the deal with sweet corn??? Awesome job, Thank you!

I put a 5 lb box of milk powder in a pil about this size, with about the same mix you did, but I added a 60 lb bag of alfalfa cubes, and it gave me great breakdown, my chips were all Arizona hardwoods, summer chipped so had leaves, 3 turns, 6 months and it was done,. The milk powder reduced the bug infestations, and better fungi's, it even grew will mushrooms.

I randomly planted French Marigolds in among the tomatoes in two beds last season and those were the only two beds that produced! The rest were riddled with RKNs. So every bed will be half French Marigolds this year! Plus, yeah RKNs hate living organic matter and anything sea-based, so lots of compost and crabmeal, too.

So how did it work. I do no dig and have been putting fresh mushroom compost on my garden every year and i have a bad infestation of them Naughty little creatures.

Wow me two

Are there beans in there?

i have been saving seeds for years and had to toss all my squash (winter and summer) seeds as last year all I managed to grow were crosses. so this year i'm buying new seeds and will definetly use your technique. Thanks

Love gardening in Sacramento!! 👍

You should have tilled the marigolds into the ground with the organic matter instead of just layering it on top.

The temp is here around 3c What should i do?

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Late post, but to add my 2 cents -- put a bit of white spray paint on the black keys. If you drop one, it can be very hard to find otherwise. I love the Geobin I used this past year for the first time. It looks nice, is adjustable and easy to move, and made the really good compost (admittedly because I put the correct contents in). And, it will roll up and store easily if I want to give it a break for a season -- BUT, I'm actually adding 2 more this fall. My neighbors in my community garden are jealous of how well my compost turned out compared to theirs.

6 liters of water a day everyday AFTER you soak the chips in a tub before initial construction. You must have vertical air tunnels every 18". What I'm describing is the Johnson-Su bioreactor. Check it out, it works extremely well.

Im looking at my chipdrop pile right now I haven't added anything and it's hot composting