My dad has been composting for about two years, and I've been working in the produce department of the local retailer for a year, and as such soon after I was hired I mentioned it to my department managers, who both gave me the green light to collect browns (which, for me, is exclusively cardboard that I cut up into small squares) and greens (which tend to mostly be cabbage leaves and corn husks, but sometimes also asparagus trimmings and bell pepper shells). So now my dad has ample access to whatever he needs, in the ratios he needs. Of course I'm still ensuring my professional tasks are taken care of...... :D
Thank you for the reminder! I knew this from Monte Don, but overdid the kitchen scraps in our compost tumbler. Flies developed. Abd we didn't have much brown material other than cardboard then. Fortunately, another tip was to dump a bit of compost material from our tumbler fir the chickens to break down, and then just pop it back in the tumbler. Voila! No more flies, happy chickens, and rich black compost developing! 🥰
@@GoingGreenMom I know it won’t look that way when he turns it but you are exactly right. We got my mom one of those for her 80th birthday. They are so pretty. Now that you said it, that is exactly what it looks like. 👍💛☀️
Thank you. I’ve watched many compost videos but this is the most helpful one. I have had very little success with composting so far but I am seeing my mistakes now! 👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Thanks for posting this video. Soil health is the most important issue facing our world today. With the planet's agricultural topsoil already half degraded amending with organic matter (plant and animal waste) is the only remedy. I've seen this in my own garden, after 7 years of improper composting my soil became almost worthless. Now that I'm implementing Josh's method my soil is richer than ever, and full of earthworms. Our nations need to set up policies to bring back the organic content on our farms, not just for our health and prosperity, but for the prosperity of the generations to come. Thanks again 🙏
@@senkowbuildersPeople ask this question all the time----when he said 30:1 ratio, I think he meant that brown leaves themselves have a carbon to nitrogen ratio of 30:1. The leaves practically have no nitrogen. The 2 to 1 ratio is referring to the amount you actually use to make the compost. So 2 browns amount to 1 greens amount. Hopefully that clears that up. Happy gardening
I was left wondering how one “turns the pile?” I wish this would’ve been explained or added to the video. Thank you though for showing us this video and teaching us.
Interesting and plain simple method of beginner composting. We are trying to start our compost pile via wooden pallets. We do not have access to wood shavings like you. Although we do have plenty of animal manure. We have been shredding and using a lot of cardboard. We just cannot seem to get our mixture to heating up. Now to find the next video and trying to "unlock" our problem. Thank You for a simple and well informed video!
Hey there from Cardwell Farm! I loved this video, composting is so important and isn't something we have talked about on our channel yet. This looks like a great method and we have sooo much excess of most of the components. Thank you for posting this video and for making such great content!
I have had very minimal success using the tumbler system. I thought we didn’t just get enough hot weather but it seems now that the size of my pile/area wasn’t big enough. That’s my first point I took away from this. Thank you.
2 parts of saw dust/wood chips to 1 part high nitrogen greens would produce a C/N ration of around 337:1 (about 10 times higher than the target of 30:1). I typically use 2 parts greens to 1 part brown leaves which results in ~ 30:1
We do something very similar. We use 1/3 spent straw/dried leaves + 1/3 manure + 1/3 other greens (grass, kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, green garden waste)
thanks! we made ours to roll over every now and then and worm castings worm casting is the best put hand full in ur plants too and one is just a dumping place kept only 2' high long rows chicken stir plenty enough later we add potash and other things before using
I do this style in my greenhouse with my chicken deep litter in the spring as a seedling tray heating mat. I used to do the 18 day super fast style but IMHO I think it sort of defeats the purpose of no tillage because it offgasses a whole lot of carbon when you turn the pile everyday. I've personally settled on a happy medium where I build it let it heat up and then break it up after it gets to 100 and then pile it once more and then just let it sit for 6 months. Making a spring and fall pile gives me 2 cubic yards just from my chicken coop deep litter and then fall garden scraps mixed
@@danielleterry180 basically I'm adding about 6 inches of bagged leaves into my chicken coop/ greenhouse ever 2 to 4 weeks. I wait to add more until I see that the chickens have basically scratched around enough to break the leaves up into shredds where you don't see whole leaves anymore. It take 20 or 30 chickens about 2 to 4 weeks to do that. Then I just add another six inches and I do that for 4 to 5 months thru winter. I then take the chicken poop leaf mixture which is very potent and I make a pile as follows. I lay down about six inches of fresh whole leaves in a 4 foot by 4 foot area. I put about two gallons of water sprinkled on that . Then I add about 4 inches of that deep litter poop mixture and wet that down with 2 gallons water. I keep doing this lasagna style until it's 4 or 5 feet tall. I cap it with dry leaves put a tarp over it and let it get up to 130 to 140 and it will slowly go down to 100 F over 2 or 3 weeks. Then I break it up and repile it checking to make sure moisture is there but not dripping wet. So I basically pile it let it heat up and cool and repile it 3 times in a span of about 6 weeks and then I let it sit for 3 or 4 months until fall and then transfer it into a pile in my garden. so it takes about 5 or 6 months before I apply to beds. That final transfer I do one wheel barrow at a time so that it gets one final thorough aeration. I find it stays in the beds for longer than fast cooked 18 day stuff and I broadfork and top dress so it works perfect for me. I let it sit out in the open in the garden for a couple weeks then apply it to my perennials and my fall shallot and garlic beds. I put 4 to 6 inches on my garlic and shallot beds but everything else I put just about an inch or two. It's fully composted but a bit more rough looking so I use it like a compost mulch hybrid and it works great. I don't even really need to water anymore other than initially transplanting and spot watering a few stragglers. Hope this helps you :)
Hey there Homesteading Family! I was thinking. Can you please make a series on parenting tips? Your children seem just lovely and having a few kids myself I know I wouldn't be the only one to benefit from some tips!!!
let alone the set up is amazing, that drone shot at 10:21... yea you made me pretty darn envious on that one sir!! one day ill have this set up... thank you for all your hard work and content you provide!
I'm intrested in hearing more about the thermal composting. I'm hoping to build a large pile that has water filled pex to heat exchanger heat my greenhouse this winter. Have you ever tried this? Also I just build your bean tunnel. It is going to be the star of the garden this year. Thank you for explaining all the details. You are both true teachers.
ua-cam.com/video/8P7PXtqIyy8/v-deo.html It can be done. But it require a huge pile, and also depend on your location in the world. It is probably easier to put a large compostpile inside the greenhouse. Good luck!
Ya'll I live in Florida and so want rich soul to grow great food! I promise our compost gets to temperature. So blessed to live in an all year growing season.
Thanks for sharing this video! I really enjoyed it, very informative! We are actually in the process of working our 18 hot compost pile, last flip coming up this weekend 🙌🏻👍🏻😊 We got the idea originally from Billy Bond over at Perma Pastures Farm. 👍🏻🙌🏻😊 Thanks again.
You also need to check if the wood shavings are from chemically treated or heat treated wood. Same problem with the straw and grass clippings...but I love the process...got mine up to 75 C, opened it for aeration and brought down the temp to 60C
Thank you so much for sharing the ratio of the green and brown I started a compost pile but it wasn't doing too good and that might be the reason cuz I was not sure about the ratio and I made it in a box so I think I'll take every other board off to get more oxygen
In Thailand, a university does the same thing you show on the video. But the difference is that they don't turn them at all but they make several hole on the top deep to the buttom and fill them with water and close them after fill them finish. They get prytty nice compost. I tried once and happy with the result.
I love the simple way the speaker here breaks down the steps for compost! I want to keep improving my own backyard garden compost pile. So, this takes me back to Junior High geometry. What is the formula to figure the length of fence for a three foot diameter cage? 😀 I think it includes π
Nice composting video, as far as it went. It would be nice if you would tack on to this video a demonstration of what turning it looks like, with helpful tips and tricks.
That's the most laboring part cutting into peaces. I've got small backyard and the source of material less and taking it apart is a labor intensive. And I'm doing it by hands.
Hello there, I have watched many videos and many different ways to make a compost pile but yours makes a whole lot more sense so I did exactly what you did. I made The Wire cage 3 foot by 4 foot out of 1 inch wire mesh fencing. I used an aray of different things. Horse manure, Rabbit manure chicken Manure, Grass Clippings, Shavings, Leaves, Broken down wood pellets that are in with my chicken Manure. Can't remember what else off hand but it took me 2 days to build it. I finished it on Tuesday and I just got my thermometer this morning and went and checked the temperature. It's already at a 120° and it went up to that temperature as soon as I put the gauge in the middle. I got the 20 inch gauge. I can't believe how fast it hit that temperature. I am very pleased. Should I wait now until the temperature drops a bit to turn it? I didn't expect it to reach this temperature so fast😳
Wood has an extremely high c:n ratio. Your compost is excellent, but using a substrate with a lower c:n (say coffee grounds) will encourage faster decomposition by providing more available n to microbes for decomposition.
Good Heavens I love that jet black garden gold! I used a lot of caw manure from our dary but the pure stuff from the automated ditch cleaners is too high in wather content and low in nutrients due to a standard dairy diet, especially in winter. Horse manure is primo but harder to find so I started disengaging the spreader paddles and using the compacted betting/manure mix from the pens and just letting the converyor run it off (pull forward slowly or the returning conveyor paddles will drag it back under and up through the floor of your 19,000 dollar spreader lol. But you get a nice 10X20' base about a foot deep to add all your standard garden and house and yard waste to. Turn it with a fork evey once in awhole, till it in the sprinf and it's gold. I wish I had your setup.
Look, this is a beautiful compost pile, noone would dispute that. However time is almost as precious to a gardener as compost is and you just spent an entire day making a 1m^3 compost pile. Surely there is a more efficient way.
I'm a novice, so my question is how do you turn it when it's that tall & there's fencing around it? We are going to upgrade our composting method in the next couple weeks. So far I like your method best.
This gentleman knows his stuff!!! Simply undo the ties that hold the screen together, then remove it - the pile will stand by itself - then remake the cylinder right beside the first pile. If you’re right-handed, put the new cylinder to the left of pile one - most folks will find this easier on the body - and lefties go the opposite way :-) The outside of the pile will not be as decomposed as the inside, so when you turn it, you want to get as much of the outside material on the inside as practical. I’m a student of Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web school and she teaches to take the top third off and pile it aside, then the next third gets put into the new bin, putting the inside material against the screen, then the outside material in the centre. When that third is done, add in the material that you set aside, then top the pile with the remainder of the first pile. Keep doing the squeeze test for water that he talks about. You will have to add water, just not as much as the first time. The heat generated by the microbes cook a lot of water off!!! Insufficient water will cause a failed pile! I cover my pile with a tarp to help conserve moisture, and I find I get more thermal activity closer to the outside edge. I just purchased some new screen that has 1” x 1/2” mesh, a little more expensive, but has more uses. The roll is 100’ so I use it for different purposes… makes good coarse screen, and if you add the cylinder to the centre that he talks about, you can make it our of your screen - not solid pipe - the pile needs air! Best thing to cut the screen with is an angle grinder. For a 3’ diameter pile, you need about a 10’ length of screen, and for the middle chimney pipe, about 14” (gives a little for overlap) if you’re a shorter person, you may find the four foot height a challenge, so you can use 3’ high screen, but make it about a 4’ circle to increase volume (about a 13’ length of screen) Happy composting… and thanks for a great video without a bunch of annoying “musac”. New subscriber here! And I’ll send my friends to meet you too.
Take the wire off & set it next to the pile. Scoop it up with a shovel or tractor and dump it back into the wire. If you can put the top and sides into the middle, thats best.
@@allencallender2205 Turning it this way is not going to come even close to ensuring all the material is going to spend time in the centre hotspot of the pile, and thus not likely going to kill all the pathogens, which is the purpose of thermophilic composting.
Im curious about doing compost in an open top, solid sided container, ie 55 gallon drum. Drill a few holes for drainage, take a pvc tree, mount a computer fan on the top, blowing down, and a small solar panel to blow o2 forcing that air back up through the pile. More complicated than I would need, but my mom wants to get into it and shes getting up there in age, making turning a real deal breaker. Would be a cool experiment.
i get between 5 and 10 tons of cow manure nearly every week and i bury most of my tree limbs and other organic material in it. i just ordered 250 red wigglers to put in it. So by next planting season, i’ll have planting ready dirt.
Question: each spring we get our manure from a gal that has 4 horses, so it is manure plus wood stall shavings. It’s probably about 25 Yards that we get each year. we put it in our back field and turn it throughout the year with the tractor before putting it in the garden. My question is, she obviously uses wormer (dewormer) on her horses, how long does that take to break down in a compost pile since we want to put it on an organic garden? Thank you for your content. It’s such great info
It depends on the precise substance used, you'll have to look that up. Some things are really hard to break down and gets absorbed in plants, might want to avoid those. Things that decay or that won't get absorbed is fine. Good luck, I have more than a little chem, but I can't figure that out easily either.
To get started I’m thinking of getting my local compositing and manure and woods chips and shredded pieces to start my pile and then add my waste as time goes on as well because to start out you won’t have that much of a pile if you’re just starting. Or maybe that’s just me.
Very informative. As someone with zero gardening experience, I've been wanting to learn more about composting. My only concern is whether or not this will tow rats around because unfortunately there has been some pretty bad rat problems in our neighborhood the past couple of years. Any advice on how to mitigate this? Maybe limit food scraps or find a way to encase it without cutting off too much oxygen? Thanks for the video.
Thank you, and thank you Josh! That helped out so much! I will make sure to watch the next video! What do you think about the black cow manure and the organic compost, you buy at home depot ? God bless you and your family!
My dad has been composting for about two years, and I've been working in the produce department of the local retailer for a year, and as such soon after I was hired I mentioned it to my department managers, who both gave me the green light to collect browns (which, for me, is exclusively cardboard that I cut up into small squares) and greens (which tend to mostly be cabbage leaves and corn husks, but sometimes also asparagus trimmings and bell pepper shells). So now my dad has ample access to whatever he needs, in the ratios he needs.
Of course I'm still ensuring my professional tasks are taken care of...... :D
that is awesome so a lot less is wasted!
You dont know how happy your dad is with that
Because for compost lovers, it's precious😂
Great video. You really did simplify everything. Thank you. You and your wife, Caroline, are wonderful teachers and educators.
Thank you! Finally a composting method that looks like something I can actually do and succeed at! 🥰🥰🥰
Trying bedwarm towers and in place composting
Thank you for the reminder! I knew this from Monte Don, but overdid the kitchen scraps in our compost tumbler. Flies developed. Abd we didn't have much brown material other than cardboard then. Fortunately, another tip was to dump a bit of compost material from our tumbler fir the chickens to break down, and then just pop it back in the tumbler. Voila! No more flies, happy chickens, and rich black compost developing! 🥰
If there could be a pretty compost pile, you just made one. Gardeners layer cake. Great job!
Glad I am not the only one that was thinking it could be a naked cake.....
@@GoingGreenMom I know it won’t look that way when he turns it but you are exactly right. We got my mom one of those for her 80th birthday. They are so pretty. Now that you said it, that is exactly what it looks like. 👍💛☀️
Thank you. I’ve watched many compost videos but this is the most helpful one. I have had very little success with composting so far but I am seeing my mistakes now! 👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Thanks for posting this video. Soil health is the most important issue facing our world today. With the planet's agricultural topsoil already half degraded amending with organic matter (plant and animal waste) is the only remedy. I've seen this in my own garden, after 7 years of improper composting my soil became almost worthless. Now that I'm implementing Josh's method my soil is richer than ever, and full of earthworms. Our nations need to set up policies to bring back the organic content on our farms, not just for our health and prosperity, but for the prosperity of the generations to come. Thanks again 🙏
I never thought when I was younger that some day I would really appreciate a mound of nice black soil. Lol 😂
😂😂😂
Lol
Never thought I’d be making it 😂
@@melissasmomglam GOOD LUCK IN ALL YOUR GROWING EFFORTS
Same here. I never tought I will be knee deep in horse manure and get excited for the next load.
Awesome. Very simple. You've simplified composting taking it out of the rocket science realm into the layman's terms. Thanks
Wow you place is gorgeous! Look at that view and river 😍
I can’t wait for the next video to see how you turn that pile.
Is there a video on how to turn it? i did not see it. Only saw sifting...
Cindy Godfrey it will be in a future video.
I was wondering that myself
More than likely he used a front end loader with a bucket , ie tractor with a bucket on the front after taking the wire off. Just a thought. 🚜
I've learned so much about composting from your channel. Thank you for sharing!
I love how you have made this process so simple. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Looking forward to the next video
Went back and found this one. Such good and clear info as always. Thanks!
thanks Josh. Love the tip about the pipe in the middle to provide air.
You say 30 to 1... yet you did 2 to 1. Doing my pile tomorrow. First pile for our new garden on this new property in Oz. Love your videos.
I questioned the ratio also
The nitrogen pile has lots of wood chips (carbon) in it, so it is only a small percentage nitrogen (the manure and urine). That's why the difference.
@@senkowbuildersPeople ask this question all the time----when he said 30:1 ratio, I think he meant that brown leaves themselves have a carbon to nitrogen ratio of 30:1. The leaves practically have no nitrogen. The 2 to 1 ratio is referring to the amount you actually use to make the compost. So 2 browns amount to 1 greens amount. Hopefully that clears that up. Happy gardening
Hard work and a wealth of nature-knowledge pays off ! Awesome video and homestead ! Thanks.
I was left wondering how one “turns the pile?” I wish this would’ve been explained or added to the video. Thank you though for showing us this video and teaching us.
Lot easier with an open pile instead of using wire
I was coming into the comments to see if that “next video” was linked here.
U put a shovel in and take a hard right turn. Repeat , easier than it sounds.
Facts. Where part 2 bro ??!! 😭🤣
Interesting and plain simple method of beginner composting. We are trying to start our compost pile via wooden pallets. We do not have access to wood shavings like you. Although we do have plenty of animal manure. We have been shredding and using a lot of cardboard. We just cannot seem to get our mixture to heating up. Now to find the next video and trying to "unlock" our problem. Thank You for a simple and well informed video!
this video was the best I have seen. thanks for the step by step an explanation as to HOW AN WHY..many blessings to you and your family ❤️
Your homestead looks like a dream, right down to the windy road along a windy river through the mountains.
LOVE the aerial view!!!!
Excellent video, great tips !!
We've started our first compost this summer. Looking forward to learning and growing
Awesome update Josh thank you for sharing
Hey there from Cardwell Farm! I loved this video, composting is so important and isn't something we have talked about on our channel yet. This looks like a great method and we have sooo much excess of most of the components. Thank you for posting this video and for making such great content!
Your property is absolutely beautiful!! And with the water so close!!
I have had very minimal success using the tumbler system. I thought we didn’t just get enough hot weather but it seems now that the size of my pile/area wasn’t big enough. That’s my first point I took away from this. Thank you.
This is the most satisfying compost lasagna I've even seen come together. Please share updates! 💖💖
Nice explanation….thank you for taking the time to do this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid, I’m building a line of 6 4x4x4 foot compost bins made from fallen tree branches for the frame and filling in the sides with pallets.
I have never heard of using urine for a composting pile. These are the reason why I love watching your UA-cam
channel. Thank you!
Josh, I appreciate your teachings!
Anxiously awaiting the next episode!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge👍👍👍
Of all the videos I seen and composting yours is the best👍
Wow! What a beautiful place.
2 parts of saw dust/wood chips to 1 part high nitrogen greens would produce a C/N ration of around 337:1 (about 10 times higher than the target of 30:1). I typically use 2 parts greens to 1 part brown leaves which results in ~ 30:1
We do something very similar. We use 1/3 spent straw/dried leaves + 1/3 manure + 1/3 other greens (grass, kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, green garden waste)
I have dry leaves everywhere. That’s what I use for my browns :)
thanks!
we made ours to roll over every now and then and worm castings
worm casting is the best put hand full in ur plants too
and one is just a dumping place kept only 2' high long rows
chicken stir plenty enough
later we add potash
and other things before using
That river😍 first video I’ve watched from you. Nicely done!
EXCELLENT video! Precise and clear! Inspirational!! Gonna go turn my compost now! From Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia here too, lol 🙋♀️
Wow! Your homestead is gorgeous!
Loved this video! Thank you so much! Very helpful!
Thanks for making this video! Love how you explain how it works. Definitely will be starting that here soon!
Thank yall very much🥰😎, great video. Wow, yall have such a beautiful place! Lol, loved the air ride😎! Thanks for everything yall do❤️
Great info . Be starting a couple of those this coming week . Thank you and looking forward to the follow up video
I do this style in my greenhouse with my chicken deep litter in the spring as a seedling tray heating mat. I used to do the 18 day super fast style but IMHO I think it sort of defeats the purpose of no tillage because it offgasses a whole lot of carbon when you turn the pile everyday. I've personally settled on a happy medium where I build it let it heat up and then break it up after it gets to 100 and then pile it once more and then just let it sit for 6 months. Making a spring and fall pile gives me 2 cubic yards just from my chicken coop deep litter and then fall garden scraps mixed
How long do you have to let your chick stuff sit to be good for gardening?
@@danielleterry180 basically I'm adding about 6 inches of bagged leaves into my chicken coop/ greenhouse ever 2 to 4 weeks. I wait to add more until I see that the chickens have basically scratched around enough to break the leaves up into shredds where you don't see whole leaves anymore. It take 20 or 30 chickens about 2 to 4 weeks to do that. Then I just add another six inches and I do that for 4 to 5 months thru winter.
I then take the chicken poop leaf mixture which is very potent and I make a pile as follows.
I lay down about six inches of fresh whole leaves in a 4 foot by 4 foot area. I put about two gallons of water sprinkled on that . Then I add about 4 inches of that deep litter poop mixture and wet that down with 2 gallons water.
I keep doing this lasagna style until it's 4 or 5 feet tall. I cap it with dry leaves put a tarp over it and let it get up to 130 to 140 and it will slowly go down to 100 F over 2 or 3 weeks. Then I break it up and repile it checking to make sure moisture is there but not dripping wet.
So I basically pile it let it heat up and cool and repile it 3 times in a span of about 6 weeks and then I let it sit for 3 or 4 months until fall and then transfer it into a pile in my garden. so it takes about 5 or 6 months before I apply to beds.
That final transfer I do one wheel barrow at a time so that it gets one final thorough aeration. I find it stays in the beds for longer than fast cooked 18 day stuff and I broadfork and top dress so it works perfect for me.
I let it sit out in the open in the garden for a couple weeks then apply it to my perennials and my fall shallot and garlic beds. I put 4 to 6 inches on my garlic and shallot beds but everything else I put just about an inch or two. It's fully composted but a bit more rough looking so I use it like a compost mulch hybrid and it works great. I don't even really need to water anymore other than initially transplanting and spot watering a few stragglers.
Hope this helps you :)
Hey there Homesteading Family! I was thinking. Can you please make a series on parenting tips? Your children seem just lovely and having a few kids myself I know I wouldn't be the only one to benefit from some tips!!!
Check out their playlist on the homepage - there is a list specifically about thus
let alone the set up is amazing, that drone shot at 10:21... yea you made me pretty darn envious on that one sir!! one day ill have this set up... thank you for all your hard work and content you provide!
Love your land! Been trying to find my farm for a few years, won't give up regardless of age till I find it
I'm intrested in hearing more about the thermal composting. I'm hoping to build a large pile that has water filled pex to heat exchanger heat my greenhouse this winter. Have you ever tried this? Also I just build your bean tunnel. It is going to be the star of the garden this year. Thank you for explaining all the details. You are both true teachers.
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It can be done. But it require a huge pile, and also depend on your location in the world. It is probably easier to put a large compostpile inside the greenhouse. Good luck!
thanks a lot you answered all my question finaly a
i am be able to have good compost
Ya'll I live in Florida and so want rich soul to grow great food! I promise our compost gets to temperature. So blessed to live in an all year growing season.
Super video! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this video! I really enjoyed it, very informative! We are actually in the process of working our 18 hot compost pile, last flip coming up this weekend 🙌🏻👍🏻😊 We got the idea originally from Billy Bond over at Perma Pastures Farm. 👍🏻🙌🏻😊 Thanks again.
18 piles?
I have a large pile that's about 3' tall and 25-30' around. I hit it regularly with a tiller to help mix it up!
You also need to check if the wood shavings are from chemically treated or heat treated wood. Same problem with the straw and grass clippings...but I love the process...got mine up to 75 C, opened it for aeration and brought down the temp to 60C
Great video! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for sharing the ratio of the green and brown I started a compost pile but it wasn't doing too good and that might be the reason cuz I was not sure about the ratio and I made it in a box so I think I'll take every other board off to get more oxygen
Great teacher...thanks for this very informative video
I’m so jealous! You have a gorgeous piece of land!
In Thailand, a university does the same thing you show on the video. But the difference is that they don't turn them at all but they make several hole on the top deep to the buttom and fill them with water and close them after fill them finish. They get prytty nice compost. I tried once and happy with the result.
Linky plz
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@@babibump This link is english subtitles this is english subtitles
Great video, very informative, great tutorial. Thank you 👌
Great work, man. Thank you for this.
best compost vid i've seen so far, great info ty :)
Great video! Do you have a video showing how you "turn it"? I have an idea but just wanted to see if you have a visual already. Thanks and God Bless
Learned so much! Thank you!
great detailed description.
Josh
I would love your advise in setting our homestead up in Naples... appreciate all your insight... God bless
Thank you for this very helpful video.
Looks like a tall pile to turn. But the compost you added looked phenomenal
Great info!
I love the simple way the speaker here breaks down the steps for compost! I want to keep improving my own backyard garden compost pile.
So, this takes me back to Junior High geometry. What is the formula to figure the length of fence for a three foot diameter cage? 😀 I think it includes π
Nice composting video, as far as it went. It would be nice if you would tack on to this video a demonstration of what turning it looks like, with helpful tips and tricks.
That's the most laboring part cutting into peaces. I've got small backyard and the source of material less and taking it apart is a labor intensive. And I'm doing it by hands.
Great info....thank you!
Hello there, I have watched many videos and many different ways to make a compost pile but yours makes a whole lot more sense so I did exactly what you did. I made The Wire cage 3 foot by 4 foot out of 1 inch wire mesh fencing. I used an aray of different things. Horse manure, Rabbit manure chicken Manure, Grass Clippings, Shavings, Leaves, Broken down wood pellets that are in with my chicken Manure. Can't remember what else off hand but it took me 2 days to build it. I finished it on Tuesday and I just got my thermometer this morning and went and checked the temperature. It's already at a 120° and it went up to that temperature as soon as I put the gauge in the middle. I got the 20 inch gauge. I can't believe how fast it hit that temperature. I am very pleased. Should I wait now until the temperature drops a bit to turn it? I didn't expect it to reach this temperature so fast😳
Love it, Black gold!
Nice one,
Please share next part of composting.
Love this recipe
Wood has an extremely high c:n ratio. Your compost is excellent, but using a substrate with a lower c:n (say coffee grounds) will encourage faster decomposition by providing more available n to microbes for decomposition.
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Good Heavens I love that jet black garden gold! I used a lot of caw manure from our dary but the pure stuff from the automated ditch cleaners is too high in wather content and low in nutrients due to a standard dairy diet, especially in winter. Horse manure is primo but harder to find so I started disengaging the spreader paddles and using the compacted betting/manure mix from the pens and just letting the converyor run it off (pull forward slowly or the returning conveyor paddles will drag it back under and up through the floor of your 19,000 dollar spreader lol. But you get a nice 10X20' base about a foot deep to add all your standard garden and house and yard waste to. Turn it with a fork evey once in awhole, till it in the sprinf and it's gold. I wish I had your setup.
Look, this is a beautiful compost pile, noone would dispute that. However time is almost as precious to a gardener as compost is and you just spent an entire day making a 1m^3 compost pile. Surely there is a more efficient way.
Thanks for your argument
That's one pretty pile.
very helpful. thank you.
You can put dry leaves and straw in a large garbage can and hit it with a weedeater... breaks it down really fine!
This winter when I get lots of leaves I'm going to add blood fish and bone and seaweed powder and water!😁👍
I'm a novice, so my question is how do you turn it when it's that tall & there's fencing around it? We are going to upgrade our composting method in the next couple weeks. So far I like your method best.
I agree. I have the same questions. I hope he does a follow up video showing us that part of the process.
This gentleman knows his stuff!!! Simply undo the ties that hold the screen together, then remove it - the pile will stand by itself - then remake the cylinder right beside the first pile. If you’re right-handed, put the new cylinder to the left of pile one - most folks will find this easier on the body - and lefties go the opposite way :-) The outside of the pile will not be as decomposed as the inside, so when you turn it, you want to get as much of the outside material on the inside as practical. I’m a student of Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web school and she teaches to take the top third off and pile it aside, then the next third gets put into the new bin, putting the inside material against the screen, then the outside material in the centre. When that third is done, add in the material that you set aside, then top the pile with the remainder of the first pile. Keep doing the squeeze test for water that he talks about. You will have to add water, just not as much as the first time. The heat generated by the microbes cook a lot of water off!!! Insufficient water will cause a failed pile!
I cover my pile with a tarp to help conserve moisture, and I find I get more thermal activity closer to the outside edge.
I just purchased some new screen that has 1” x 1/2” mesh, a little more expensive, but has more uses. The roll is 100’ so I use it for different purposes… makes good coarse screen, and if you add the cylinder to the centre that he talks about, you can make it our of your screen - not solid pipe - the pile needs air! Best thing to cut the screen with is an angle grinder. For a 3’ diameter pile, you need about a 10’ length of screen, and for the middle chimney pipe, about 14” (gives a little for overlap) if you’re a shorter person, you may find the four foot height a challenge, so you can use 3’ high screen, but make it about a 4’ circle to increase volume (about a 13’ length of screen)
Happy composting… and thanks for a great video without a bunch of annoying “musac”. New subscriber here! And I’ll send my friends to meet you too.
We'll have a turning video coming in the next few weeks!
Take the wire off & set it next to the pile. Scoop it up with a shovel or tractor and dump it back into the wire. If you can put the top and sides into the middle, thats best.
@@allencallender2205 Turning it this way is not going to come even close to ensuring all the material is going to spend time in the centre hotspot of the pile, and thus not likely going to kill all the pathogens, which is the purpose of thermophilic composting.
Im curious about doing compost in an open top, solid sided container, ie 55 gallon drum. Drill a few holes for drainage, take a pvc tree, mount a computer fan on the top, blowing down, and a small solar panel to blow o2 forcing that air back up through the pile. More complicated than I would need, but my mom wants to get into it and shes getting up there in age, making turning a real deal breaker. Would be a cool experiment.
1 cup. Beer
1 cup cola
1 cup urine
Water as you wish
That is usually for fast leaf and grass compost
You can add coffee grounds too
i get between 5 and 10 tons of cow manure nearly every week and i bury most of my tree limbs and other organic material in it. i just ordered 250 red wigglers to put in it. So by next planting season, i’ll have planting ready dirt.
Good video. Thanks
great!!!😊
Question: each spring we get our manure from a gal that has 4 horses, so it is manure plus wood stall shavings. It’s probably about 25 Yards that we get each year. we put it in our back field and turn it throughout the year with the tractor before putting it in the garden. My question is, she obviously uses wormer (dewormer) on her horses, how long does that take to break down in a compost pile since we want to put it on an organic garden?
Thank you for your content. It’s such great info
It depends on the precise substance used, you'll have to look that up. Some things are really hard to break down and gets absorbed in plants, might want to avoid those. Things that decay or that won't get absorbed is fine. Good luck, I have more than a little chem, but I can't figure that out easily either.
To get started I’m thinking of getting my local compositing and manure and woods chips and shredded pieces to start my pile and then add my waste as time goes on as well because to start out you won’t have that much of a pile if you’re just starting. Or maybe that’s just me.
Very informative. As someone with zero gardening experience, I've been wanting to learn more about composting. My only concern is whether or not this will tow rats around because unfortunately there has been some pretty bad rat problems in our neighborhood the past couple of years. Any advice on how to mitigate this? Maybe limit food scraps or find a way to encase it without cutting off too much oxygen? Thanks for the video.
Thanks for this video....Did u ever do the follow up video on turning?...can't find it in ur list.
Thank you!
Thank you, and thank you Josh! That helped out so much! I will make sure to watch the next video!
What do you think about the black cow manure and the organic compost, you buy at home depot ?
God bless you and your family!