Secrets to Winter Composting for Incredible Soil Fertility in the Garden
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Wintertime is my favorite time to create rich compost that results in fertile soil and more nutritious fruits and vegetables. In this video, I'll show you several ways that I work to close the loop and increase fertility on my little homestead.
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You can watch Tom’s free video workshop at training.growfoodwell.com/thrivesale/
I highly recommend his garden workshops!
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Our city told us not to use compost bins because they were having a rat problem. So this year I buried kitchen scraps, etc. right in the raised beds deep under the soil. No critters disturbed them, and they'll decompose in situ right where I want the nutrients to go. Every year I use autumn leaves for mulch in the vegetable garden. Usually I clear them away in the spring, but this year I'm going to try leaving them in place and planting through them where possible. I also purposely grow a bed of clover that I chop and drop all summer around the various beds.
So fun to watch a gardening video in the middle of winter! I saved a bin of chopped leaves so that every time I dump kitchen scraps I can throw some leaves on top and kind of mix it up and keep a compost pile going. It’s really cold here in Utah, but there are a lot of sunny days, so with black plastic over the pile it warms enough to continue composting. Another good, natural fertilizer is urine. I’ve found that corn is a heavy feeder and a weekly application of diluted urine supplies adequate nitrogen for a bumper crop!
@@TheProvidentPrepper Ha ha, my family is not on board. I fill enough gallon jugs on my own for a huge garden and a huge compost pile (hide the jugs behind some bushes). Straight urine is okay for the compost pile but burns plants, so a gallon goes a long way when diluted… just a little in the bottom of the watering can. Urine is supposedly high in nitrogen and phosphorus, so adding a little wood ash brings in the potash.
I really like your bag of leaves on the carrots, I am going to steal that idea!. I have been doing a simple system the last couple of years: I mulch with OLD round bales of HAY in the fall, I clean my chicken coop a few times a week and put that in a bucket. When the bucket it is full I carry it to the garden and spread on the beds, all winter long until about March, it just seeps in all winter and I plant in it all in the spring. I also do chop and drop, I use to haul in compost but since I started this it is much more simple and has been working well.
Great information and video. Thank you. What works for you, I like it. Love your yard. Thank you for sharing your MS information and you are an inspiration due to your activity. You, my daughter and all others with this and other difficulties are in my prayers for healing and joy.
The spirit of Junebug the Cat transported to your garden! Well done, Junebug!
Great video! Question for you, my ground is frozen here in PA, can I still be throwing my kitchen scraps and leaves in my compost pile to use in the spring ? Thanks and Merry Christmas🙏
I live in a small apartment with a deck that is above th4e first floor. I have a small bucket under my kitchen sink that I fill with spent coffee grounds, fruit and veggie scrap and egg shells. when that gerts full I add it to the bigger bucket I keep on my deck. after I harvest my plants in the fall I leave a good share of the plant matter plus accumulated leaves on the soil in my pots. when I am ready to plant my seeds in the spring I can add that compost to the pots
Excellent as always...thank you!
Good compost, my friend, greetings
Lots of great information, thanks!
Thank you and God bless you both for sharing your wealth of information. The mountains in the back ground made me miss my home in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. 🙏
Great information! Good reminder to break down and compost all those Amazon boxes.
Awesome ideas, thank you! I am so jealous of your homestead- raised beds, food forest, chickens, rabbits- amazing job! I have a lot of hardscape in my backyard, so I just bought a large blue plastic recycling trash can with a lid. I poked a bunch of holes in it, and layer browns/greens/water. To turn/aerate, I lay it on its side and roll it back and forth across my patio! 😂 Works great. I also use hugelkultur in my container garden beds, some small branches and also cardboard boxes like you guys use. Composting is fun and helps reduce the size of landfills!
You amaze me! I'm using Maple leaves directly on my beds for winter. If it's not broken down all the way, I'll either cultivate into the ground beds or raised beds, or rake and put into compost pile to finish up.
I put all my shapes in a blender with water, dig a small hole near trees and garden and cover it and volé food scraps gone and trees are happy.
With our HOA, I am unable to do any type of homesteading at the moment, but if I were able to do it, I would definitely get the Lomi. 🥰
I really wish Amazon would develop a compostable tape for their packaging. In fact, I would like to see such an invention become mandated for all packaging. We need to stop adding non-compostable plastics to the soil and to the oceans.
This autumn I’ve gotten a number of brown paper padding packages
I personally just wet the boxes really well when I throw them in the composes. Then when I turn the compost the tape releases and I pull it out as I compost. It's not perfect but it seems to work fine.
Great ideas.
We just started a compost pile this summer. Hopefully, some of it will be ready by spring. We also bought Vitamix's version of the Lomi. So far I have one 5-gallon bucket almost full. I love the idea of the barrels with the spigots. I'd love to see a video on how you use the compost. Do you just spread it everywhere or just put it in the seed holes? Does it change the soil's ph and such?
Please do a video on making your Jadam batching !!
Watch UA-camr David the Good who has videos on what he calls “David’s Fetid Swamp Water” where he makes liquid fertilizer in a barrel. I’ve done that and it grows great vegetables!
Are your worm bins based on non-fuctional chest-type freezers? If so, how did you modify them? Did you cut drainage holes in the bottom? Did you remove the electric motor and compressor? Is there anything else that you must to to convert a non-functional freezer to a worm bin?
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Seems cutting and dropping would take some much time and wear out the hand. Is there a tool like small chopper you could drag around w you?
Do your raspberry plants fruit on last year’s branches? Or new growth?
How do you keep the worms from dying? Mine all died.
Hay doesn't compost well
It mentioned meat on h the list. Are you really putting meat into your garden?
Great info! I need to watch a gardening 101 video, you have one @providentprepper ?