My NEW COMPOST BIN arrived from AMAZON. ALBEFY COMPOST BAG. BUDGET COMPOST BIN UNBOXING & REVIEW.
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- My NEW COMPOST BIN arrived from AMAZON. ALBEFY COMPOST BAG. BUDGET COMPOST BIN UNBOXING & REVIEW.
I've had real trouble buying compost during the lockdown and as a non-driver, needing to save online deliveries for more vulnerable people it has really highlighted the need for me to make my own compost. Like many others during this time, I am on a tighter budget than usual, so I was looking for a lost-cost alternative to a full-sized compost bin, plus I only have a very limited outdoor space.
I decided to give this particular budget compost bin a try - amzn.to/3ipqKHD - ALBEFY Compost Bag, Garden Folding Compost Bin with Zipper Design, Compost Bin Yard Leaf Waste Compost Bag Fruit Kitchen Fermentation Secret Cultivator Bags for Garden
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I have since upgraded to a plastic compost bin! I made a video on that too click on the link in this comment to see that), in which you will get a glimpse of this bag 7 months down the line, and why I decided to switch to a plastic bin... ua-cam.com/video/VB5vN77npRo/v-deo.html
It's amazing that such a huge thing can fit in such a small package! How can they even fold it that small??
😂 It must be some kind of magic!
“I’ve planted 36 beens and now I’ve got 6”made me laugh so much. These videos really cheer me up and are a joy to watch. Another amazing video Imo!
Yeah - the score sits at Slugs:31 - Imo:6 currently. Still - it's a good learning experience! Thanks, Louis!
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Ar there any updates on this? How's composting coming along? would be nice to se an update video something on harvesting compost :)
Sorry! I managed to miss your comment! Yes!!! Well, not a specific dedicated update video as such but I can tell you. It worked more or less OK for making compost, I think? However, with all the excessive rain we had, I do think it got sopping wet inside, which is no good for the compost making, as far as I'm aware. I recently upgraded to this plastic bin which I just made a dedicated video on: ua-cam.com/video/VB5vN77npRo/v-deo.html and in that video, at one point I show the old compost bag, 7 months on. It didn't ever look tidy as it was always slumped over and having to undo the zip was a lot less convenient than lifting up the plastic lid on my replacement one, plus it took two hands - there were always slugs and things on the underside of the zip and general muckiness from the compost, so it got to be a mucky job, slightly, as the months went on. Also - the main reason I eventually replaced it was that something chewed some holes in it - presumably a rat. Ew! 😂 It took many months before that happened. A friend of mine had one and had no trouble what so ever with hers. In retrospect, I wish I'd paid more and got a better one, because I ended up having to upgrade less than a year later anyway. Thanks for watching, Elizabeth and I hope this was useful!
Interesting...so there are no holes....every composting video I've seen says that you have to poke plenty of holes into the container...
What a way to finish a Friday with one of your videos. Have a great weekend Imo and I hope Izzy is enjoying her home schooling. Xx ❤️❤️❤️ enjoy your new compost bin!!!!! Lol love this video guys keep it up.
Thanks, Olivia. Have a lovely weekend.
Ooh my gosh you are cute when you are handling those cute worm 🐛 ☺️
😊 thank you
😄the worms. I had no problem digging for and playing with them when I was a child, but I couldn’t pick one up now. My daughter has made a compost in a large plastic container FOR worms, to feed to our axolotyls.
It's funny about picking up worms, isn't it? It surely must be an instinct thing. Some cultures enjoy chomping down on grubs and things for extra protein. I eat prawns, though... hm. I drew the line at picking up the slug. The trowel came out for that one!
I had a pop up compost bin. It was like a pop up laundry bin. It worked quite well.
Cool!
Lost is interesting to watch more than once as you notice things you didn't first time. Because they suddenly become important in hindsight
Yes! And Izzy was a baby the last time I saw it. It's very gripping. The end was a big let down, though! A great example of how NOT to end a story.
@@PlanetImo it really was!
I love learning something new! Did not know about the strawberry plant runners, and this came after just yesterday noticing the long thing on our plant! Had to pause you to google about it. 😀 Mine’s in a pot, so I will prune it and give my plant more energy to use on berries.
No! I didn't know, either! We literally just did it recently in biology! Thanks for the pruning tip. I'm not very good with all that stuff, yet.
IB is a lucky man.
Hopefully he read this in the comments! Hee hee! Thanks. He has to compete with the camera though, poor soul. He jokes about setting up a 'vloggers' widows' support group for people who have partners who vlog! 😂
Hehehe ☺️
You can help ward off those pesky slugs with crushed up egg shells ontop of your soil. #nowaste
Ah yes - I've been trying this. Thanks.
A tiny bit of moisture I believe is needed, and stirring for your compost. That bag will work but you see the pile did the work without trying. It was rained on and what a nice bunch of worms. They aerate the soil so it doesn't compact.
Ahhhhh! Yes! The rain. Hm. Should I leave the lid undone sometimes, I wonder? To let a bit of rain in?
@@PlanetImo You don't want it too wet either, outside the excess evaporated, in a bag it's a bit more of a closed system. Worms drown so just don't give them a swimming pool at the bottom.
karen4you Oh yes! Good point. Thanks, that’s really useful info. I don’t need Google with you around. :-)
Those are some seriously quality worms. The worms we just bought for $6 were half the size and didn’t wiggle.
Oh! You have worm envy AND puzzle envy!
Imo and Izzy Vlogs I just climbed into bed and I am laughing out loud!
You are so right!
I have fin black fungus my kitchen composting caddy ,is it safe to put in my garden compost. Thank you for your help x
That’s a good question. I was wondering the same thing myself! Sorry I didn’t know the answer. Let me Google...Google says fungus helps with the decomposition proceeds. I’d say that’s a green light to go ahead then! It says: “even when conditions are not good for bacterial decomposition, the mycelium in fungi can complete the task.“
I planted a couple of the self growing potatoes from my cupboard today 🤣
Excellent! I expect I'm going to see that and follow their little story thread as it unwinds. :¬) It's amazing how much we learn from vlogs.
@@PlanetImo I'm sure you will!
I save worms that are wriggling across the path!
Worms Eye saves worms. It makes sense!
@@PlanetImo . LOL!!!
Interesting that you use the word "tea" for your evening meal, so does Colin Begg. I thought it was a more common usage in the northern parts of Great Britain. We find many regional variations here in America. We moved to Tennessee (southern state) from Indiana (northern state) when we retired a few years ago. There are lots of Southern dialect and words we had to learn. I still don't use many of them although I have started to say "y'all" more often. But the locals still think of us as Yankees (people from the north) . Thanks for posting!
IB calls what I call 'tea' dinner... I think? For me lunch is the midday meal, though in schools, they are served up by 'dinner ladies'. I did not know Yankees were Northerners, specifically. Here in Wales, the North Waleans are 'gogs' because they come from the 'gogledd', which means 'north' in Welsh. I'm not sure if English people know this expression. Probably not!
@@PlanetImo Our mid day meal is usually called lunch. But the evening meal can be called dinner or supper. To Colin, supper is snack they have later in the evening.
If you have loads of wood lice...... throw them into a omelette... there related to prawns... yum yum 😋
Ew! You first!
It's a shame compost bins dont have legs, I could've sent some off from Norfolk to Wales! I've just given away two big compost bins...
Oh yes! That would have been good! They could have made headline news if spotted striding happily through the countryside together towards Wales, especially on the pedestrian bit on the Severn Bridge. Thanks for the thought, Sarah!
You could probably grow potatoes in there and harvest them from the bottom!!
Mmm! Interesting idea.
Is there any update in this video
Yes!!! Well, not a specific dedicated update video as such but I can tell you. It worked more or less OK for making compost, I think? However, with all the excessive rain we had, I do think it got sopping wet inside, which is no good for the compost making, as far as I'm aware. I recently upgraded to this plastic bin which I just made a dedicated video on: ua-cam.com/video/VB5vN77npRo/v-deo.html and in that video, at one point I show the old compost bag. It didn't ever look tidy as it was always slumped over and having to undo the zip was a lot less convenient than lifting up the plastic lid on my replacement one, plus it took two hands - there were always slugs and things on the underside of the zip and general muckiness from the compost, so it got to be a mucky job, slightly, as the months went on. Also - the main reason I eventually replaced it was that something chewed some holes in it - presumably a rat. Ew! 😂 It took many months before that happened. A friend of mine had one and had no trouble what so ever with hers. In retrospect, I wish I'd paid more and got a better one, because I ended up having to upgrade less than a year later anyway. Thanks for watching, Jen and I hope that was useful!
@@PlanetImo thanks for the ideas 😊
How long usually takes for compost to mature?
Do you know, I have no idea. I lived longer term in my old house and over the years it definitely broke down into earth that I could grow plants in, but I didn't notice how long that took. None of this seems to have composted yet... I ended up having to replace this compost bag. It worked well for ages but then a rat or something chewed a hole in it and rain got in and it all got soaking wet - which I'm sure didn't help. Thanks so much for watching and good luck with your composting! 😊 Imo
Whoooo lost such a great show
It got really bad after the first series, but we're enjoying it nonetheless!
Sunflowers are hard to grow I'm told.
Well, this one certainly is!
Sunflowers are easy easy to grow!
Sometimes they just misbehave.
I have a lot of TV shows on DVD that I hardly ever watch. Even during the lockdown I hardly watched any of them, just sitting on my shelf gathering dust :(
It's kind of got to the point where it's easier to look up the show you have on DVD on line, than walk over to the shelf and physically put it in the DVD player! 🤣
Absolutely right!
I've wanted a composter for ages. we tried making one out of a cardboard box (an idea out of a rspb mag) but it all ended up a mouldy soggy pile. The woman next door has just given me a proper one . she didnt want hers anymore because she wanted a square one . nice of her but she must have money to burn lol. I hate slugs. best thing I've found if you dont want to use pellets is beer traps. put some beer in a margarine tub and they will all go to it and gorge themselves and drown in it. bloody drunks lol. only thing is the husband will ask where his beer is and i'll have to say I gave it the slugs lol.
Only thing I dont get with that bag composter is how to bugs and worms get in it if theres a botttom on it?
lovely garden you've made great use of the space.
ps 3 out of my 4 kids watched this a gog lolx
Ahh yes, the slug trap. I am respecting Izzy's choice not to kill the slugs. Loads of people have suggested it and it works - I know because I've tried it in the past. I'm accepting the slugs will munch most things and it will be a good learning experience for Izzy. Ah ha - homeschool mum stealth at its finest! I can't believe your kids were agog at this video, but I'm chuffed that they were! I have a few younger viewers who are very vocal in the comments. I can't imagine why they would find this channel interesting as I'm a forty something year old mum going about her day, but maybe it's the fast edits and multiple angles? I study my retention graphs after every video and keep tweaking accordingly, so maybe that's why? But then again, most bigger channels aimed at younger audiences do that way better than me so it remains a mystery! 🤣 Thanks, Victoria! Have a good weekend. x
Oh, and a friend of mine had a compost bag like this and said the worms managed to find their way in, no problem at all. I guess they sniff it out and 'worm' their way in through tiny gaps, some how?
@@PlanetImo You could just gather them in a bucket after it's rained I do that when I'm in a let the slugs live mood ...doesnt happen very often mind. I think it's your calm vopice you should read bedtime stories lolx ps hope you have a good weekend toox
@@PlanetImo hahax
I'd love to make another channel for reading bedtime stories - I'd like to do the really old Ladybird books with archaic language and beautiful illustration for children and also English learners with supportive on-screen text. I'm not sure about copy-write issues? I have a feeling it's a complete no-no, but one of these days I'll investigate.
I'm not the biggest fan of Tescos the amount of times I have been in there I have got sick of it I like Sainsbury's.
Oh I know exactly what you mean - the novelty wears off after a while and it's nice to see some different options. ASDAs do a load of own-brand soya stuff that I like, but we haven't been able to go since the lockdown. Maybe I'll try them for my next on line delivery You've got me thinking, now!
I don't think I could have touched the worms with my bare hands. I probably would have used a stick of some sort :)
Well, I didn't enjoy it, and I got it over with as quickly as i could. I drew the line at slugs, and got them with a trowel and relocated them over the wall. They were evicted!
It kinda reminds me of an overgrown Ikea bag.
Yes! It's the same material and exactly the sort of innovative, budget option item that IKEA would bulk-produce.
@@PlanetImo you and I could totally make our own and sell it to them. We'll call it Kömpst
Joseph K. 😂
Doesn't your council give out free compost bins? Else you can get a decent one from Wilko or Aldi (when they have them) for £12. Another thing I notice, mine from the council has an open bottom to let in the worms that help with the composting. You can still add your own worms as you dig them up. Will be interesting to see how well yours does so keep us updated :-)
I don't think they do - (council giving free compost bins) I think you have to pay and then they are big ones. I only have a tiny patch of concrete out the back so a big compost bin would take up quite a big proportion of the space. I had a chat to a friend who'd had one of these before and she said it filled up with worms quite easily, in spite of having a closed bottom. I guess they sniff out the compost and literally 'worm' their way in. Presumably they can squeeze themselves through tiny, tiny gaps to get in and then I assume they lay eggs and multiply in there henceforth... it's a whole new composting adventure! 😁 Thanks for the tips and advice, Electrowave and thanks, as always, for watching.
@@PlanetImo I'm learning, too, so thank you for your tips. Your cooking has given me ideas, too. Interesting hearing about Izzy's eczema. My brother always suffered from eczema growing up but it cleared during three weeks on a cruise to Africa when we bathed and swam in sea water. It came back in Africa but not as bad in the dry climate and thin air until he decided he wanted to be a hairdresser, and all the chemicals were such a nightmare that he ended up making his own line of products. I think it got better as he got older, or maybe he just doesn't talk about it these days. I feel for Izzy, it isn't very nice but glad to hear she's improving. I'm sure she will find her own way of keeping it under control as time goes on and medicines, etc. improve.
I would say there is something eating the sunflower....
Maybe it's slugs?!
@@PlanetImo maybe. Have a look under the leaf and see if you can locate the culprit
Can you put worms on it?
Well I did shovel a few in when I set it up. But a friend of mine had one the same and she didn’t go out of her way to put worms in it but they found their own way in, sure enough, and had a fine old time in there, by all accounts. 😊 Thanks so much for watching.
Hahaha.. I had to laugh at the package of your new composter bag. But it did end up being a nice sized one, and looks like it will take a nice amount of product in it. I'm like you.. worms make me shiver... can't touch them.. nope.. not .. nadda... hahaha
We had a neighbour that had several of the large outdoor plastic garbage cans line up against her back garden and used them for her compost bins. The way she did hers was that she bought some sort of product that she just added on top of the layers of mulch, produce bits etc that she put in it.
How far do you have to walk to Tesco's?
My mom would cook up the kale, and mix it in the mashed potatoes. Us kids loved it like that. She would also do the same with mashed carrots in the potatoes as well as turnips. Mom was always making what she would call "stomp pot".. adding up cooked & diced dutch rookworst (sausage) with it all. She was always making these meals, and us kids always enjoyed them. I did the same for my boys too. For mom it was a cheap way to eat and fill 5 little tummies back in the 50's & 60's.
Have a wonderful weekend !.. 💗
It takes me 12 minutes to walk to Tesco's - but it takes longer to walk back once I have overloaded myself with shopping! 🤣 I had to stop to rest multiple times with that recent haul. Stomp pot sounds great! I'm always looking for inexpensive nutritious ways to fill Izzy's tummy up - she's growing at a rate of knots during the lockdown. My parents won't recognise her when we eventually get to see them again.
@@PlanetImo .. That's not so far then, but having a heavy load would make it seem like miles. We also have a grocery store about 10 minute walk, but don't use it as the prices are so much higher.
Your courgette will have right angel 🤣🤣
🤣😂🤣 Oh no! Well it would make a good photo. I got more compost last night after filming this, but it's been too wet to get out and top that tub up today.