This has been one of the most informative videos on the channel for me. The concepts presented are invaluable. I'll figure out implementation details for my situation, the concepts are the key . Big thank you to Nicole and JM!
I make, buy, beg, borrow, steal - everything goes because the more you can get, the better things grow! I'm a market gardener and I'd say the more farmers you know the better. Its increasingly difficult to get the well-rotted stuff now - they use it themselves. I've just lined up 6 tonnes of fresh-out-of the barn to be delivered in October/November and I'll leave it piled up for a year - maybe less for brassicas because they don't seem to mind how fresh it is!
I made a compost bin last fall in my high-tunnel (Farmers Friend). I was hoping it would add some warmth to the tunnel over the winter, and the compost stayed around 50C most of the winter, as I kept adding new material. It didn't do much to heat the high-tunnel, but the tomatoes that were planted where the compost was are 50 cm taller than the other tomatoes, even just a meter away. All the same varieties and the compost from that bin was used to top-dress the beds in that polytunnel. I guess it super-charges the soil under the bin....
Merci pour le travail que vous faites. J'ai découvert l'espace Old Mill par votre sérié télévisé l'autre jours. Pour tout dire, j'essaie de suivre une diète boréale, mais je me retrouve souvent freiné par le manque d'accès à des ingrédients qui sont pourtant endémique au Québec. Je pense par example aux argousiers. Je crois fortement que nous devons recommencé à consommer local et à favoriser le régionalisme comme on voit en France. J'ai lu une entrevue d'une dame du troisième âge qui disait que dans son jeune temps, autour des années 50, la dame n'avait accès qu'à 3 sortes de Fromage en plein coeur de la France. Elle n'était pas plus malheureuse dans ces temps. D'aillueurs, je suis prêt à parier que la qualité de ses fromages sont difficile à battre avec ce que l'on à en épiceire aujourd'hui. Bref, vivement que votre mission de localisation fasse écho dans les autre régions du Québec.
I started making compost when I had dogs and needed a way to deal with their waste. I’d cover their waste with straw/leaves and the pile never seemed to get bigger. Once I got a tractor,I got into making enough to use on my gardens.
Most if not all compost I've bought it was mostly ground up wood chips at worst. Saw dust at best . Make yourself if you want higher standards. If you buy don't expect much .
I think it really depends on where you are. We have no good source around us for any type of organic or good compost. I can get mushrooms compost that is ok but I usually have to recompost it because it is not finished. So accessibility is key for this decision
Thank you, this was so great! We have a large home garden 1200 sq ft. Aprox.,and have modeled our compost bins/making after Charles Dowding’s pallet style box method. For many of us who have the enclosed compost situation for space and animal reasons, on your next video with her, could you speak to this kind of compost making? Also, we have goats and I’m always confused as to how to interpret their bedding, which is a mix of spent hay, poop and wood chips. Green or brown or a combo? Started with all clay soil here on the Olympic Peninsula in Wa., 3 yrs ago, and I’ve been laying the older bedding on our beds maybe 4” thick in the fall, and it is indeed gone by spring. It’s been an amazing soil building material for us, which was our primary goal with them!!! They also eat our blackberries, and the milk, cheese and yogurt is nice too :)
It would be great if you could talk more about the Soil Food Web Nicole was mentioning and how it has improved your soil and as a result your yields and costs. Looking at the claims they make, when applied correctly, it sounds very interesting, even a bit "It is too good to be true", although I really hope it is true. anyway thanks for this one and the inspiration you give.
I buy some and make some, my veggie patches are still small and being expanded as time allows. Here in South Africa it is difficult to get good compost so I "re compost it" for about 3 months before using it. Get earth worms to assist with this.
We make our own compost - mostly because crappy compost is $120 a yard (we live on an island, and a ferry is required). We have chickens, and use the bedding, we pick up our neighbours food scrips, grass cuttings, and leaves. I think my compost is pretty great. It does get nice and hot. I don't turn it, and the worms come in and finish it off...
I have manitoba maple stumps that I let grow each year until fall when I strip everything off and shred it for compost. I know its a hardwood but is it green or brown as I chop and add live with leaves? I may have missed it but did you mention ideal what the ideal ratio is? Thank you both very much and I hope to hear more on this from both of you.
what is that awesome wheel barrow @1:26 in the video? The older I get the more everything hurts the more I look for ergo solutions so I can keep going through my retirement.
Maybe not what your channel is targetting, but any thoughts on Bokashi? I am thinking of doing it to avoid sending meat, bones, dairy, and other slow composting/pest attracting items to the city green bin.
Great video. JM you need better soil structure in your greenhouse soil. To achieve that you need to rip the ground as deep as you can with a single tooth on a tractor. Then apply a heavy amount of compost and some gypsum. After that use your rotary plow to go from right to left one pass at a time. To plow your ground into big chunks. Then apply another thick layer of compost and some gypsum on top and water it in. Either cover with plastic or plant with cover crop. Your soil will be completely transformed into an amazing growing medium. Also I use my rotary plow and make raised beds or ridges in my greenhouses.
Gypsum is calcium sulfate. It is a very fine white powder that is mined from the earth. It is a soil softener. It helps break up clay soils and also helps leach away excess salts.
This has been one of the most informative videos on the channel for me. The concepts presented are invaluable. I'll figure out implementation details for my situation, the concepts are the key . Big thank you to Nicole and JM!
Nicole is GREAT. Learned a few new details from this video!
Please lots more information. Like is it easier to dig a big hole, add food waste and let ferment?, use worms and chop up food waste really small?
Looking forward to watching this. I raise 15-20 cows , a few pigs and sheep. Really enjoying the composting that comes from over wintering animals.
I make, buy, beg, borrow, steal - everything goes because the more you can get, the better things grow! I'm a market gardener and I'd say the more farmers you know the better. Its increasingly difficult to get the well-rotted stuff now - they use it themselves. I've just lined up 6 tonnes of fresh-out-of the barn to be delivered in October/November and I'll leave it piled up for a year - maybe less for brassicas because they don't seem to mind how fresh it is!
I made a compost bin last fall in my high-tunnel (Farmers Friend). I was hoping it would add some warmth to the tunnel over the winter, and the compost stayed around 50C most of the winter, as I kept adding new material. It didn't do much to heat the high-tunnel, but the tomatoes that were planted where the compost was are 50 cm taller than the other tomatoes, even just a meter away. All the same varieties and the compost from that bin was used to top-dress the beds in that polytunnel. I guess it super-charges the soil under the bin....
Merci pour le travail que vous faites. J'ai découvert l'espace Old Mill par votre sérié télévisé l'autre jours. Pour tout dire, j'essaie de suivre une diète boréale, mais je me retrouve souvent freiné par le manque d'accès à des ingrédients qui sont pourtant endémique au Québec. Je pense par example aux argousiers. Je crois fortement que nous devons recommencé à consommer local et à favoriser le régionalisme comme on voit en France. J'ai lu une entrevue d'une dame du troisième âge qui disait que dans son jeune temps, autour des années 50, la dame n'avait accès qu'à 3 sortes de Fromage en plein coeur de la France. Elle n'était pas plus malheureuse dans ces temps. D'aillueurs, je suis prêt à parier que la qualité de ses fromages sont difficile à battre avec ce que l'on à en épiceire aujourd'hui. Bref, vivement que votre mission de localisation fasse écho dans les autre régions du Québec.
I started making compost when I had dogs and needed a way to deal with their waste. I’d cover their waste with straw/leaves and the pile never seemed to get bigger. Once I got a tractor,I got into making enough to use on my gardens.
Most if not all compost I've bought it was mostly ground up wood chips at worst. Saw dust at best . Make yourself if you want higher standards. If you buy don't expect much .
Good compost hard to find, but is out there, depending in where u live. I had hauled from 120 miles away.
I think it really depends on where you are. We have no good source around us for any type of organic or good compost. I can get mushrooms compost that is ok but I usually have to recompost it because it is not finished. So accessibility is key for this decision
Thank you, this was so great!
We have a large home garden 1200 sq ft. Aprox.,and have modeled our compost bins/making after Charles Dowding’s pallet style box method.
For many of us who have the enclosed compost situation for space and animal reasons, on your next video with her, could you speak to this kind of compost making?
Also, we have goats and I’m always confused as to how to interpret their bedding, which is a mix of spent hay, poop and wood chips. Green or brown or a combo?
Started with all clay soil here on the Olympic Peninsula in Wa., 3 yrs ago, and I’ve been laying the older bedding on our beds maybe 4” thick in the fall, and it is indeed gone by spring. It’s been an amazing soil building material for us, which was our primary goal with them!!!
They also eat our blackberries,
and the milk, cheese and yogurt is nice too :)
It would be great if you could talk more about the Soil Food Web Nicole was mentioning and how it has improved your soil and as a result your yields and costs. Looking at the claims they make, when applied correctly, it sounds very interesting, even a bit "It is too good to be true", although I really hope it is true. anyway thanks for this one and the inspiration you give.
Merci beaucoup. C'était très intéressant avec beacoup d'info.
I buy some and make some, my veggie patches are still small and being expanded as time allows. Here in South Africa it is difficult to get good compost so I "re compost it" for about 3 months before using it. Get earth worms to assist with this.
So excited a place not that far from me!
This place was recommended by Mike from The Little Farm that Could in Hastings, ON.
Good video. Thank you
Any additives minus "cides" and minus 2-4D is the ultimate of importance!
We make our own compost - mostly because crappy compost is $120 a yard (we live on an island, and a ferry is required). We have chickens, and use the bedding, we pick up our neighbours food scrips, grass cuttings, and leaves. I think my compost is pretty great. It does get nice and hot. I don't turn it, and the worms come in and finish it off...
I have manitoba maple stumps that I let grow each year until fall when I strip everything off and shred it for compost. I know its a hardwood but is it green or brown as I chop and add live with leaves? I may have missed it but did you mention ideal what the ideal ratio is? Thank you both very much and I hope to hear more on this from both of you.
what is that awesome wheel barrow @1:26 in the video? The older I get the more everything hurts the more I look for ergo solutions so I can keep going through my retirement.
Maybe not what your channel is targetting, but any thoughts on Bokashi? I am thinking of doing it to avoid sending meat, bones, dairy, and other slow composting/pest attracting items to the city green bin.
Buy it!!
Needed tractor trailer load never make this much myself!
Great video. JM you need better soil structure in your greenhouse soil. To achieve that you need to rip the ground as deep as you can with a single tooth on a tractor. Then apply a heavy amount of compost and some gypsum. After that use your rotary plow to go from right to left one pass at a time. To plow your ground into big chunks. Then apply another thick layer of compost and some gypsum on top and water it in. Either cover with plastic or plant with cover crop. Your soil will be completely transformed into an amazing growing medium. Also I use my rotary plow and make raised beds or ridges in my greenhouses.
What does gypsum do?
Gypsum is calcium sulfate. It is a very fine white powder that is mined from the earth. It is a soil softener. It helps break up clay soils and also helps leach away excess salts.
That soil looks like gravy or cholate pudding, totally delicious! This vegan would eat that soil! LOL
YEA appearly in Canada making compost is difficult.Let rooting organic stuff is difficult in Canada!
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It’s worth it just by not throwing food waste into the landfill
Use a pitch fork to flip compost piles. Work smarter, not harder!