Animals in your Compost? KEEP THEM OUT! (and Your Other COMPOST questions ANSWERED!)
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2021
- Building your own compost is great, but keeping pests out and other troubleshooting issues can pop up from time to time. We're answering all your composting questions in this video!
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- How & When to Turn (Your SIMPLE) Compost: homesteadingfamily.com/when-a...
- Simple Steps to PRACTICAL HOMEMADE COMPOST (Pantry Chat): homesteadingfamily.com/how-to...
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Coyote tripped me out that's next to the composting pile at 3:51 I was like, that's a really still dog. 🤣
Hello from East Texas! Newbie to composting. Thank you for a great video
Wylie Cyotee~! Love it~!
This was the first video I have seen that makes composting simple and doable. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I have been watching your coyote in your videos. I agree with the names other people recommended....Wiley/Wylie. My husbands name is Wiley and he always introduces himself....Wiley, like Coyote.
'Wylie Coyote' {Super Genius} 🤔
20:29 Regarding adding worms to your compost. The first stages of materials breakdown in a compost pile are all bacterial. That's the hot phase. When that's pretty much done then the worms will come in as it cools attracted by the tasty bacteria and microbial life, living and dead, that's coating all the materials. They'll chomp it up and finish your compost.
Thanks for answering my question Josh. Much appreciated
Very informative!! Thank you! I take my veg scraps and put them in the blender with some water to get a sort of slurry, pull back some compost and mix it in, then cover it. No animals, and I have everything from bears on down.
Love all of videos. Both of you are great teachers! Always sharing your videos. Thank you so much!
I love this channel: wholesome and informative. :)
How’d new sub here. So happy I found you. You covered every problem I had as a new gardener. Great videos. I think I watched all the compost videos and they have been a great deal of help. Y’all havagudun and God Bless.
Just found your channel, I’m really excited as storing eggs for the yearly cycle has been a quest for a while, and my attempts at composting consistently have failed. Can’t wait to try again! I’ve failed for 3 reasons-in Florida it pours daily in summer, so it’s soaking wet-I think covering but leaving air access is a must now. I’ve not used the thermometer to drive turning, I will now, and I’ve tried to turn it “in place”. So simple to move fence and just move it over! Thank you. Hoping for better results! Florida gardening takes a lot of soil amendment.
Very Informative, thanks so much!
Good questions great answeres
I created a winter compost for convenience that I keep right outside my back door in the kitchen garden that would be great for small yard gardeners. I begged sections of old plastic culverts from our road agent when he replaced local culverts. I cut them into three foot sections, drilled half inch holes in one half of the culvert, dug a hole big enough to accommodate it and sunk it into my raised bed. I keep a bucket of sawdust nearby and layer it with kitchen waste covering it loosely to keep snow out. The holes allow worms and other tiny critters to come in from the surrounding soil. I also seed it with a little compost. About a month before I want to plant the annual herbs and veggies in the kitchen garden I stop using it and give it time to finish off. I keep a tool nearby to agitate it once in awhile. When I’m ready to plant I lift the culvert section out and work the resulting compost into the soil. I have monster tomato plants growing in this area, so I know it’s working. Feel free to make it one of your experiments.
And, yes you did pronounce my last name properly.
Great info!
Honestly, I watched ur video series on composting and basically " got it", but the Q&A on here confused me again and I have been composting in one form or another for decades.....I am willing and able to take a hard pass on all the confusion and work of ur method of composting....I just do not have the time and energy to do all that. BUT I know u r spot on!! I wish I had the time and energy or my hubby do that for me! U r very knowledgeable!!
So for me I designated a portion of one of my raised bed in my garden to layer the green and brown materials with existing dirt/compost and with watering when I can and mixing it now and then, it works and it's where I need it. It's not perfect but it does work.
I've been going to restaurants and getting them to save their used coffee ground for me. I always thought coffee grounds were considered as browns/carbon, but in fact it's nitrogen. So if you need a lot of greens fast, ask your local restaurants to save the coffee grounds for you.
😂😂😂your dog is so patient 🤣🤣
Wow! I love your coyote!
Had to watch. Seporate from my big compost heap, I decided to try your method. Our critters have been an issue. Between dogs, chickens, and a naughty pig that thinks he is a dog, what a mess. I feel like I'm shoveling a lot back in daily. My black bears knocked it over twice, so, they, the pig, the chickens, and, the dogs could take a nice roll in it. 😯 I did move it to a place they cant get to it. 🤯.
Oak and sweet white or red gum is the best for com post. I’ve found with a drum
composter rotate every couple of days and leave it open you cannot leave it closed.
Fortunately we don't need a ton of compost, so our raised 2-section tumbler works well. Our chickens reduce scraps that get added to it. I keep long branches and trim them for staking veg & fruit. The leaves and small branch debris is in another box for decaying into leaf mold and rougher compost over summer and fall. For our Texas summer, most things will in July except established crepe Myrtle and other trees, and roses if you deadhead them and fertilize well. But we'll see this fall how well our compost fulfills the needs. First year in a different climate is always experimental.
Thanks for answering the questions. We got our pile up to 160 for the first and only time on our last turning. We mixed in a lot of wood chips and Re watered it all but it never got over 110. I’m wondering how to get it back up over 150 to kill all the seeds I’ve dumped into the pile. We’re turning once a week, just bought our first tractor and are having so much fun doing it. I’m just afraid next year I’m going to have grass and chives and Alyssums everywhere 😖
Thanks for sharing.. New subs looking forward to more of your videos! 🔔👍😉
So just turned it for first time after 2 weeks at 125. It seams to work fine so far with maple & red oak jointer and planer shavings as browns and some veggies and fruit scraps + fresh grass as greens to start up 2 weeks ago.
No odor or bad smell but had good amount of shrooms inside of the pile.
Josh, growing shrooms are good in there?
Love your Airstream in the back ground. What model is that? I have an 1962 model AVION that I gave a make over to myself check it out at Poorboys' Little Homestead
This is interesting, I live in KY and we don't have animals getting into our compost. Other than possums that like to bed in the straw when its added. Mammaw always said don't put meat in your compost, if you do you'll attract animals perhaps thats the problem? Also looking down through these comments I see lots of people talking about turning your compost once a week? I may turn mine 2-3 times a year, I find that people on the internet tend to put way too much effort into composting. Its a natural process, let it have air, turn it occasionally, and water it if it gets dry. Let the bacteria & fungi do the work :)
👍👍👍good video ❤️🤗
Love Wylie, I'm going to have to get a couple of them to see if that might keep the fox's away from the chickens or would it attract cyotees?
I did the holey pipes horizontally all the way up along with the vertical one that i could put water in vertical pipe
Thank you for this, just started my first vegetable garden with my girlfriend. We’re starting our grow with all cucumbers, also started my first compost pile the same day we built the garden! I have it free standing on the back of our 1 acre property. I’ve been adding old soil, food scraps, dead leaves and grass to it. I used your video on a fast garden, I made the dimensions identical to yours. Where could I send before and after pictures to you, since I replicated your video in a way? Thanks for the tips on everything!
My brother and I plan to purchase acreage soon and start a homesteading life as soon as we find the perfect property.. we plan to UA-cam this whole process!
go for it!!! best of luck
what about all the rain we get in middle tennessee? should I cover the pile or leave it? just found your channel! thanks!
Thanks for all the great information. My permie ambition is to be an excellent soil farmer. Btw, I enjoyed watching your coyote friend move around the scene. Haha.
I hadn't noticed, gotta re-watch now😁
Ha, ha, you're right. I wonder if it's one of their kiddos idea. Love it!
Very informative! Love this compost series! Random strange question though, what's with the dog statue in your videos? I'm relatively new to the channel and maybe it's been mentioned already. I think it's great!
Oh boy...right after commenting, you explained. That's funny! lol
I know it's a coyote but there is a really neat kids book Walter the Wolf. I think Walter!
Would love to see harvest videos.
My compost pile is 30 feet long, 15 foot wide and 8 to 10 foot tall and, i add another dump truck load to it every week.
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Pardon if this has already been asked and answered. About how much greens and browns are needed for that cubic foot of compost?
Do you need a compost thermometer for every pile? I have 4 that I made last fall. The piles freeze over winter.
You mentioned thermo composting? Something about getting it hot to kill seeds? How do we do this? I built 2 piles with fencing like yours and it's 150 degrees after 2 days. What's next? Is it different that this "regular" one?
I have to say, I like Whiskers.
My compost pile has a lot of big fat cut worms in it....did I cause that by a mistake? Should I sift them out before adding the finished compost to my garden beds?
Wiley coyote is the first thing that comes to mind
Of course!! He's such a drama queen.
The classes you offer are we able to ,take part online ,as I'm moving to Namibia soon and hope to start homesteading asap ,would like to increase my knowledge as much as possible beforehand
Sq foot gardening and composting and off you go!
My piles work really fast but mainly horse manure and hay.
Can you use only grass clippings ?
After l mow/mulch my grass, I let it lay on the yard until it turns brown. I use that as my browns & about every third cutting I use the fresh cut grass as my greens. I don't have a composting thermometer and I don't turn the pile (yet). It doesn't smell bad, smells like grass. Will this " compost" ever be good ?
Where do you store your finished compost
Clockwise or counterclockwise. Hahahaha What an excellent dad joke kind of question.
Are you planting new garlic this year?? Need some help there. My garlic is barely more than a fail this year. 😣 I think I need to start over this year for next year.
I have access to sawdust from a builder. Is all sawdust OK to use?
I have a giant dog crate from our Irish wolfhound. Can I remove the plastic bottom and use that to protect my compost from critters? Also we have limited shade in our garden. Will it be okay to build a small stable around it with a tin roof?
13:17 if your compost is wet and smelly especially if it is a closed composter, it is almost always a lack of browns. Nitrogens alone will rot and fester. To the person with the Tumbler composter that is always too wet who doesn't add leaves.
My compost problems are space to put it, lack of browns.
just moved south (PR) of you 6 wks ago. it's terrible not having chickens,pigs etc for scraps! nor compost pile.
Ive seen a system that used an air compressor for air and its gotten hot enough to melt pipe and a metal pipe rusts a away to fast.
Hello i just stumbled onto your channel and saw the one about storing eggs in lime and just wanting to know what kind of lime did you use
search their channel : eggs
I didn't see how you removed the cage..do you just lift it up and off? Thanks
Coffee Grounds are super high in Nitrogen.
Coyote name: Whiskers or Blaze (white on the beard area or the white chest blaze )
Lol....I think the clockwise/ counter clockwise question was a bit of a wise guy question.
Anyone know how far in the "keeping animals out".starts?
I like the name Sparky!
Thanks for the info, I’m ready to start but am worried about ants. I’m in the Deep South and ants are everywhere.
What's up with the dog statue in all of your videos? He seems to follow you around, lol.
Call him Mr. Tod from Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Mr. Tod.
Do you keep your garden rows the same every year, when you add the compost, for the winter? Do you keep your garden design the same and just keep adding compost to your rows? Just a little confused?
No, it's good to move your crops around. For instance, potatoes should only be planted in the same spot every three years to keep down disease and pests
Ive heard different folks say once grass clippings turn brown they become carbon, but my thinking is grass is still grass even if it is dead grass, What are your thoughts? I thought of this because you mentioned storing your materials. I have piles of both green and brown, but the green is more brownish now
What I read is that grass clipping that are green is considered green material for the compost pile - when the grass drys it is considered brown material - so a mixture of fresh grass clippings and dry grass is a good mixture
My dearest friend wants to know what to do with a compost bin in her garden, where rats kept digging up from under it and had become a nuisance.
Fence it in with hardware cloth underneath and sides.
My compost piles never get to 100%. They quit heating up at about 80 to 90%. Any suggestions?
Add some red worms at that point
If you have a plastic bin, I expect you could drill it full of holes-too small to spill much but big and frequent enough to aerate the compost. It would be a tiresome job, but maybe better than having the compost go stinky.
What’s the rule about adding ashes to your compost? We’re clearing some land and are going to have lots!
A previous post notes that they can be used sparingly because they are very alkaline
@Mary Thorpe thank you!!
Name suggestion: Leroy
When we had a compost box I made we had raccoons, coyotes, feral cats visit. We were OK with that and the children got to learn about wildlife.
My dog just about died from eating something from my compost ,she was in the hospital for three days, she ended up having to have antibiotics,and intravenous.
Hi from Australia my dog did the same thing and was very sick for a few weeks . I myself had to tell the vet cause they had no idea how bad it is for dogs . So I’m glad I studied it when my puppy fell ill . Now it is in a compost bin and all the areas I use it on is fenced off
Question: if pulled weeds have dried out and turned brown, are they considered greens or browns?
Brown
@@Melinda_WA_US Thanks! I often have a hard time coming up with browns. Grass clippings and pulled weeds are plentiful in the summertime. Now I'll let more dry out!
@@14889mary No problem. I also shred the oodles of junk mail we all receive for no reason at all. Great brown source. You just need to trash the envelopes with the plastic windows.
@@Melinda_WA_US Good idea. I used to bring home shredded paper from the office. Now that I'm retired, I could get my own shredder. So much junk mail goes to the landfill.
@@14889mary When you go to the grocery you can also get paper bags. I use them both to shred and to lay down when I make a new bed. I don't order much online so I never have the amount of cardboard that some have.
Wiley! Name for coyote! Lol!
Instead of having vertical air vents why not have horizontal air vents and face the opening towards where the wind blows most of the time
wasted alfalfa from goats really helps nitrogen building material. OR BUY A BAG OF ALFALFA PELLETS. Boy did that work fast! I'd sold the goats but had the pellets so...
What amount of Nitrogen is mown grass?
Make sure your additives like mown grass have no chemicals on it. Always use less greens than browns. Otherwise you get too much nitrogen. Like he said 1:2 ratio greens to browns. You will know if there’s too much nitrogen you get sludge that really stinks. 😝
Obvious name for the coyote is Wiley.
Coyote Name: Mr. Yote or Mr. Yotie.
Perhaps they drilled holes in the garbage cans
Coyote name: Woody or Bob
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How does this whole bitcoin stuff work. I'm interested in it too for months and willing to invest heavily in it. but I need guidance so I don't loose out.
speaking of bitcoin trading, it's one of the best business online right now!
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from my experience, trading on your own without guidance from an expert could be very risky, you'd make lots of losses and lose all your money especially if you're new, I'd always advice people to get in touch with an expert like Mrs Janet Madison.
@@frankmartial2832 wow I'm a bit perplexed seeing her name been mentioned here also, I heard she's pretty good in the field.
Call your coyote , dangerous 🤔
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