6 Different Ways To Compost, No Matter Where You Live
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- My fav worm composter: growepic.co/3f0Pr0o Composting is ESSENTIAL for gardeners, no matter how big or small you're growing. In today's video we'll look at 6 different ways you can compost and their pros and cons. I've done every single method and have filmed many in-depth videos on these, so dive deep and up your composting game to EPIC levels.
1. Hot Composting
2. Cold Composting (Passive Composting)
3. Compost Tumblers
4. Worm Composting
5. Bokashi Composting
6. Direct Burying
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Omg it's so true when Jo Koy says that Mexicans and phillipeans look alike. I thought you were Hispanic until you mentioned your phillipeano grandmother. I still love your videos.😁
So glad you know about the Biostack composter! I thought they were distributed throughout CA at one point. I don't know if it's legit or not but I signed this petition to bring it back. There just isn't a better design for home gardeners www.change.org/p/brian-cornell-asktarget-to-bring-back-smith-hawkin-s-biostack-compost-bin/psf/share?source_location=combo_psf&psf_variant=combo&skip=1 If anyone KNOWS whether this is a good site or not, please say so. I want to help, not hurt ;)
I understand patents and production costs. Just seems a huge waste of plastics for lesser designs to be produced and this great patent to gather dust. I'd sign a pledge to buy another one or two!
Thanks!
HELP! I have fruit flies breeding in my appartment compost and neighbors are complaining, I already tried reducing humidity and mixing more often, any tips the comunity can share?
I had a worm bin in my apartment for years. The worms made way more compost than I could use on my tiny balcony, so the landscaping in front of my building (where I dumped the extra castings) was noticably healthier than the other buildings. 🙂
I used to raise a flemish giant and was kinda lazy so I would dump the poo tray behind my building. I walked into the leasing office one day to pay the rent and the landscaper was getting yelled at for never mowing there. He was. It's just that the grass was growing insanely fast because of the bunny poo. I felt so bad for him.
Hi, can you tell more detals about it? I would like to compost my kitchen scraps, but i don't visit my allotment every day, so i can't dump them into composting pile often and im wondering about composting this in my apartment
@@hervva there are plenty of worm composters for indoors around these days. Just try to find one that produces locally in your country. I got mine last years and hurray, I have hundreds of pets now :)
Omg I bet people would LOVE to buy that from you! I wish I had a neighbor who could sell me some of.their surplus
@@hervva I have my compost worms in two plastic totes. I switch them back and forth whenever its time to collect the castings.
The most eye opening part about composting is when you realize how much really good bio material you'd been throwing out all those years, kinda kicking myself, but better late than never. It's crazy how fast the 1 gallon recycle bucket under my sink fills up with veggie scraps and coffee grinds, and my garden loves every ounce of it. Great video, Kevin, really enjoyed it!
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@@amandaforrester7636 Jesus proclaimed that your garden will only produce temporary fruit but if you eat of HIS garden, you will have eternal life, HE is the fruit of life:)
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I like how you say "apartment people" like were a different species XD
Just use it as an incentive to own a home :D
Maybe because you are👽€£₩₩£¥₩€
I've lived in both an apartment and a home.... I completely get why. Lol
If the smallest amount of water just so HAPPENED to leak out the water catch below a planter to then run off the ledge to the neighbors patio below. Hoooooooboy hell hath no fury like a litlle old lady seeing a small water spot on her spotless patio.
@@CreatureGirlInc not a different species but definately very different conditions.
@@rebeccaholcombe9043 I certainly felt like a different species in an apartment! Lmfao
I like the way that you don't force people to follow your ways instead the opposite. You seem like a humble dude. Cheers brother!
Yeah whispering to me over the flower pots!
Yea I definitely found it appealing and being humble enough to say “oh I tried this thing myself and here’s everything that went wrong and right.” Not the type to talk down at you for believing an old wives tale or some poorly researched or clickbait article. He reminds me of The Garden Rebel from central Florida.
Erik Cheatham lol garden rebel is the man.
Same here. Actually this approach makes me want to follow his tips even more hahaha
@@Theoguhugo you dont even have a compost bro
I'm a pinay grandma and starting to teach my grandkids how to grow their veggie garden. Thanks for your tips. I let them watch your videos. Thanks very much. We ll start composting.
I have a hot compost pile, a cold compost pile, a compost tumbler, and a homemade compost tea brewer. It’s safe to say I like compost 🙂
EPIC COMPOSTER!
Just a tad!
Vegged Out which method is the cheapest easiest yet most effective?
Hey Vegged Out! Epic Gardening mentioned the rain causing issues with the tumbler. What pros and cons have you found with it? I have a cold compost but need a faster option for some troubled spots in the garden.
Top 10 weird flexes
Many years ago, when I was still a teenager, my father had some leftover bait fish from a fishing trip. He buried them around the drip line of a tree in our backyard, telling me that native Americans used to put fish carcases in holes and planted corn on top of them. They broke down and provided fertilizer. I had a hound dog who dug up the Blue Runners when we let him out in the back yard. My father cursed and buried them deeper. My dog dug them up again. My father tried one final time, and my dog had the best time of his life digging them up again. They were pretty ripe by now and I'm sure that the trash collector loved the gentle aroma wafting from our trash cans on the next pickup.
😂 love what he was trying to do! I have a dog and there are lots of critters in the neighborhood, so I'm thinking the worm bag might be the way to go for me!
Hey nice profile pic
Our ol' rusty got his intestines clogged up on fish heads when he dug up his own stash of rotten heads.. He got a round of doggy enemas and his family never did that again! We caught a lot of fish but theres always too much..good ol days 🤗👌😊
At that point you plant those strategically and let that dog dog a garden bed for you
Sounds like that calls for the old pirate trick of burying your old fish heads, then burying a layer of super spicy hot pepper powder over it to make the dog stop trying.
Just made an accidental hot compost pile last week by digging a 2 foot deep hole, layered the bottom with twigs and branches, topped with dead leaves, kitchen scraps, and cut grass. Went to check on it yesterday and she's hot! Oh Lawd she's hot! Can't wait to plant directly in that spot in the cooler season.
LOL done that before
This is one of the best things I've ever read on the internet😂
How could that possibly be an accident 🤣
@@anthonycooper6934 because she’s quirky, not like other girls 😂
Speaking of rummaging pests: I switched to a compost tumbler because my beagle would break into my compost bins. When I built one she couldn't get into, she'd just stand there and bark at it!
Hah, no way?!
Imagine her disappointment. 😅😅🤣
Dave and Gena That’s awesome lol
Lol!!
That’s hilarious! Dogs are awesome)))
When I was a kid, my grandma always kept a passive compost pile out by her magnolia tree, and we'd collect food scraps in an empty paper milk carton until it was full, then put them out there. I knew it was to make new soil and "recycle" food scraps but it was really good to learn about the science behind it and other methods!
#6 my dad loved this method for his fruit trees. When we were young and lived in rural area, we had lots of pets. When pets died, we buried them under the fruit trees. Also when my mom cooked, she would gather all the food scraps and told us to bury them in the edible garden. Those old time, all veggies and fruits came from our backyard. Grocery shopping was mostly to buy seafood and protein like pork and beef. I really miss those days! I can't wait to move back to asia and but a piece of small land to start planting.
Someone may have already mentioned this, so sorry if it's a repetition. I use the Bokashi method as well as other methods. My Bokashi bin has a tap at the bottom and I can drain a rich nutrient fluid every few days (sometimes every day during the warmer weather). This fluid can be used diluted (1:10) with water as a liquid fertiliser, especially for my fruit trees. It can also be used undiluted down the drains to break down any build up (better for the environment than stuff like Draino)
Drain cleaner??
1. You are a very good teacher. Your use of the most important details and the way you communicate is surely a gift.
2. Your video quality is so clean, concise, and creative. They are enjoyable.
3. Your passion is contagious. I have binge watched so many of your videos from throughout the years. I feel motivated, inspired, and so prepared.
All that to say THANK YOU!!!
I've always done the direct into ground method because I am THAT lazy! And it's always worked. Often with some fun results as random seeds from the food scraps suddenly pop up & I get a surprise tomato plant in with the squash or onions popping up between pepper plants. If a ground vine like pumpkin or watermelon happens I just transplant that before it takes over. If it dies in the transplant so be it- it was meant to be compost anyway!
Your grandma is Filipino?! 🥰🇵🇭 I'm Filipino and my Dad loves gardening and he taught me how to love plants! 🌱
I live in a condo and have to ‘patio’ garden. I’ve been vermicomposting for years and find that’s the ideal solution for my space and food scrap usage. Great job mentioning it.
You bet
What type of system do you use?
Dude, I lived in SD before and I know how little space is available for anything there, once saw you can do it in SD, I realized I can do it in my massive yard. Thank you for the inspiration
Hope to hear how it worked out. I would imagine you can grow a variety of squashes.
I have a big pot that have soil, I just throw all my veggies and fruit scraps there and cover with another layer of soil. Last year cherry tomatoes grew in that pot 😂😂😂 I was able to harvest lots of cherry tomatoes from that compost pot 😁.
I also tried the just bury directly method, it is ok during hot summer season but during fall most of the things I buried developed molds.
Thank you for your video Kevin, hope so see more. God speed.
1. How deep did you bury?
1.1. Self Sufficient Me Mark suggests 20cm-40cm deep.
1.2. I’m wondering if, in the fall, you possibly buried the scraps
I have composted for over 50 + years, this is the first time I could not get my compost to get hot enough to kill off the bugs and seeds. Thanks for the lesson. 76 year old lady learning from you young growers. New things come up that we did not do before. Thank you!
I love how you could be a model yet you chose to educate the masses on such a wholesome life skill. I learnt so much, thank you!
About three decades ago I taught my elementary students how to make a worm bin and we used red wigglers. We had so much fun and the kids would take home a bucket of the worms on the weekend to take care of them. Eventually we turned it into a whole school project where my students educated the kids in the lunchroom as to which scraps were the best for the worms and collected buckets to collect the scraps. Eventually we had a large outdoor compost bin as well. I still have a warm bin and this time I used your Rubbermaid bucket method as I live in Texas now and it's so hot I didn't trust putting a worm bin outside. Nobody even knows I have it unless I point it out it sits on the end of my kitchen counter and I installed a faucet to drain the worm tea out of the bins. Yes worms eat my garbage! That is where I got the idea from originally the book called worms eat my garbage.
Teachers are the best 💚
@@strauchdieb7628 good teachers are the best :)
Lol my first time composting (i had zero knowledge), used the 5 gallon bucket method and thought i did it wrong because there was some mold and smelled like vinegar, so i just gave up 😂i might give it another try.
Kevin, just for the record, your Filipino grandmother IS pronouncing bougainvillea correctly. Many people mispronounce it by assuming that it’s a Spanish word where the l’s are silent - it isn’t. Another commonly mispronounced plant (for the same reason) is mandevilla.
Thanks for the great videos - keep up the good work. You’re an inspiration to many of us.
Its not that hard. The most important thing years of composting have taught me is if you keep it damp it will compost. If you also mix browns and greens and keep it damp it will compost much faster. And if you mix in food scraps and allow worms to colonize and flourish your damp composting will accelerate even more and produce unbelievably rich compost. Mine's a Geo-bin, but it could be anything, even just a pile. Its not a worm bin. Its not always hot, nor is it cold. Its a hybrid of all your 6 methods in one. Its awesome!
Well said
Yes Adding manure to it ok? pig poop
@@tinarhodes3740 Manure will put your composting on steroids! Like always, you just have to get the moisture and mix right. Too much sloppy wet manure will stink. Too dry or too much it won't do anything. Mixed properly with your greens and browns it will be steaming hot and composting like crazy practically overnight.
This goes for pretty much everything. You can throw all kinds of food scraps, even meat, in there and it will compost fine, just so long as its all mixed up and damp. Especially once you get worms going in there. Then its insane how fast and high quality you can get. People talk about composting and worm bins as if its two separate things. Doesn't need to be!
@@charlesmiller6281 - Yes! Thank you! I keep it damp .I have lots of worms and the food scraps see to break down super fast. Pig poop is not wet at all and doesn't really stink. I figured the manure would eat up the bin. Glad to know the worms will be ok in there.
@@tinarhodes3740 I think you mean "heat" up the bin. It will. Depending on how much and well its mixed it may heat it up a lot. But no worries. It heats up slow, mostly in the center, so there's always some place for the worms to go and plenty of time to get there.
I have been composting for 50 years. The easiest way I found was using a large wheeled plastic trash can. Holes were drilled for air circulation. The locking cover prevents animals from entering. It's first filled with mulched leaves. Kitchen scraps are added throughout the year.
can't beat that
314Tazo I have some questions, how do you manage your garbage can? Do you turn the compost? Did you have it in the sun or shade?
I have a 5L bucket that I agitate with my trusty little trowel every few days. It doesn't even seem to fill up. Its bizarre.
@@georgiadavies147 because it keeps breaking down?
Omgosh you have no idea how helpful this video was for me! I'm still a novice garden so I'm definitely learning as I go and I've always wanted to understand more about composting and it's benefits. I'm so excited to start composting, I just ordered the urban worm bag!!!! I can't thank you enough, your videos are a godsend!
We have used different methods of compost bins in the kitchen for collecting scraps, but hands down my favorite we found so far is a silicone bin that stays in the freezer. The one we got is from mightynest. Once it's full, even if there's Frozen liquid in the bottom, you can just pop it out because it's flexible. Sometimes it's like a giant compost ice cube. Takes up freezer space, but no more smelly compost bucket on the counter.
Just started composting this year! I've just got piles of leaves, weeds, and scraps on my property that I mix and turn myself every now and then. I'm slowly gathering branches and saving $$$ so I can build some garden beds and try do a hugelkultur type set up. Lots of work, but it's fun, too 😊
Lovely plan!
Me too
@Pink Salt yes!!
I love how creative you are! You’ve really inspired me to start new projects and become obsessed with plants.
Glad to hear!
Thank you for making this because I honestly felt too stupid to ask, so I've just been buying compost.
Hey, Kevin! Just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all of the great content you put out. Your resources have been super helpful and inspiring.
1. Hot composting
large volume needed, harder to aerate, fast, ~2 wks
2. Cold composting
less effort, maybe unwanted bugs or rodents, can take >1year
3. Tumbler
easy aeration, done in ~1 month
4. Worm composting
generates valuable castings, small volume, careful with temp and matls, small output
5. Bokashi
closed anaerobic system, can use animal products, $ starter, small output
6. Direct bury
laziest, must be deep bc dogs rodents bugs
I am definitely a lazy composter lol. Just a pile in the backyard.
I was looking for my people
I think worm composting is perfect for people in apartments. I have multiple worm bins stacked in my little patio closet. I shred paper shopping bags and cardboard boxes as there bedding. Plus the food scrapes are saved in the freezer till I feed them which is generally once a week.
Yeah worms are fantastic for apts!
I live in an apartment in Brooklyn, NY and I have a Composter my sister bought me, for two years now. I have over 3k worms 🪱 now . I bought 1k but they had babies and so on. It’s wonderful. Plus I feed the outside worms cause my windows face the backyard with trees and many plants . Composting is the best! I love 💕 it! And I feed my plants with compost soil and use the water that comes out the bottom to water the plants and I feed some to my 3 fish tanks. So apartment people are just as important!
Happy to learn that your pola is filipina. I'm a filipina, too, and married to a Spanish. Just discovered your channel a month or so and been watching a lot to keep up. 😊
Wow, perfect timing! I was researching on how to start composting and there you are. A big thank you! 👏🏻
Perfect!
I started out with the same tumbler you had but now I use a much easier method that produces way more compost: chickens in a deep litter coop and run. I just toss all my food scraps and yard waste in the run, they eat what they want and turn in the rest. The chickens do all the work.
Really great summary. I have composted for years- never particularly successfully but oh well! Better than sending to landfill!! The UA-cam videos have been over complicating it all with strict methods ie hot composting but this breaks it into categories beautifully. I have in reality been using an "organic" mixture of all these methods ... scuze pun.
Another note for apartment dwellers -- check around for a local community garden! I don't have a local compost drop off or food scraps pickup but my community garden has a compost bin and they allow the community to come drop compostable waste into their collection!
As you may know, We love that #6 method, it works great for us, easy gardening and growing lots of food. Good Video, thanks Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy
You came recommended! Subbed :)
"Worm castings." Oh that's fancy, what is that? Worm shit. Oh. Yeah. Worm castings is better.
😂😂😂
Perfect timing! We are looking into composting as part of our urban garden
I have free range worms in the yard. Everything I toss back there, the worms get to it. I don't have worm bins. I have cardboard boxes from Amazon deliveries. Just put kitchen scraps in the cardboard boxes. Close the flaps. Stack them on top of each other. The worms get in there and do their job. Then I plant in them. Miniature raised beds. Everything can grow in a cardboard box full of worm castings. Tomato. Potato. Cabbage. Corn. Mustard. Sweet potato. Squash. Beans. Then in the winter, after I am done with the crops, I dump it all out around the base of my fruit trees. I can see all the worms that were living in the boxes. Those worms go right back into the yard, eating all the fallen leaves and fruit. And as I put out more boxes of kitchen scraps, they find those to make new cardboard raised bed planters for next spring.
kid you not, yesterday i was searching for beginning compost videos, then this morning i woke up to this! wooooooo
I had a feeling you might have Pinoy heritage! Mabuhay!
Lol. Likewise
same i had that feeling too
He always mention his Pinoy grandma .
Mabuhay
You can hear him said it on 3:39
I garden like crazy, but my wife and I don't generate a lot of compostable material. I've resorted to doing blender composting. Once a day I run my blender, full of banana peels, egg shells, avocado shells, old veggies, and so on. I fill it halfway with water and blend. I throw it on the base of a tree where I'm trying to build up the soil for future planting.
It's like direct composting. Once I rinse it in, it's immediately available to all the planting I have there. I add mulch once a week or so. I'm luring hummingbirds, so the fruit flies are protein/food for them.
You know what, I just REALLY , REALLY appreciate all the knowledge you share with us. I've been binge watching you for past few days and because of the straight forward way you teach, I've already started 2 projects. Will continue learning from you and will try more.
Thank You Kevin! Very important tips for composting I agree!
I use table-top stainless-steel compost as first step before passive/cool outdoor compost. Current one is five years old, 3ft diameter wire cylinder, unturned and layered with straw mostly...I water it when it gets warm and every spring the squash seeds left sprout out, which I plant in containers..(.the raccoon raids it regularly and sometimes a bear;)...
I noticed when harvesting compost for grow beds, that a huge thriving population of earthworms were living about 5/6 inches down.wOw!
This year I planted Sunflowers around the compost where the straw has fallen out,, and they look hearty, starting to come up!
First time actively searching for your channel. And you just posted. Love me some compost.
Hope you enjoy!
Hi Kevin, I am really enjoying your channel. Thank you for the education. I have been gardening on a smaller scale for years and it is my passion, but I have not historically grown a lot of food. Yes tomatoes and herbs and a few others in large containers, but now I want to expand to raised beds and just scale it up.There is so much to know and I love learning from your videos. My mom lives in Carlsbad btw! and I was in the bay area for many years. I miss CA so much for the year round paradise like gardening! I now live in a high desert climate with hard frost/snowy winters and a shorter more high heat growing season. I have a yard so I'm getting out there, but the gardening is different because of the extremes in weather and I'm having to adjust. I just bought your book and I'm looking forward to reading that! :)
I've been doing the lazy composting and questioning myself lately, esp bc I just moved it from an outdoor container to the ground (I have clay soil in that spot of my back yard in Va), so this is really great timing to pop up on my recs. Thanks, Kevin ♡
So strange how this timing is perfect. I was wondering how I could start doing this. Thank you for this. So cool to hear about your Filipina Grandma 😉🤗🥰 just because I grew up on Guam and so many Filipino friends there and here in TX.
Filipinos unite!
I”m from Guam too.
Epic Gardening me filipino here
The year we buried whole bunch of fish we caught but weren't going to eat under our apple tree...was the year we had huge tasty numerous apples!!
Coincidence? I think not!
Fresh water or salt water fish?
K13 doesn’t matter
So you go fishing and throw the fish away? I know good for the soil.. but really? That seems so wasteful.. dont fish more than you need :/
- why weren't you going to eat them under your apple tree?
Thank you for finally explaining the ACTUAL difference between different composting systems. Everywhere else I've seen is just a how to, but this gives you a good framework to understand what you are actually doing.
Epic Gardening is one of my best youtube channels to watch a shower of useful information aiming toward answering gardeners questions, thanks to your video I think I am now aware enough of composting techniques :)
Love your videos!
I sometimes use my blender to chop down scraps and dig them under my garden in early spring and late fall. It works super good for people in apartments or whim don’t have compost bins and time.
Thanks for your channel!
Me: hey I’ve been thinking about composting
UA-cam: hey World watch this dude talk about composting
WorldComingDown literally!!
Lol the ads are listening to you, even your thoughts.
So true
I've started using the Bokashi method a few mothns ago, but my way differs a bit. In a post soviet countries its called "EM composting" which means effective microorganisms composting. This is when you use a bokashi bucket but with a speshial faucet and when you put food leftovers there, you need to spray a mixture of water and a special composition with bacteria, similar to lactic, from above. They speed up the fermentation process inside and prevent mold from developing. Once every 2-3 days, the liquid must be drained through the tap and used as a concentrate for irrigation, and again diluted with water in a certain proportion and again sprayed with garbage from above in the bucket. Its perfect for apartment owners.
I want to let you know how much I appreciate your enthusiasm in telling us these hacks to make our gardening life more enjoyable, fuitful, and enjoyable. You're the salesman not making a sale which is a breath of fresh air when trying to cram a new subject matter. Thanks for the help.
Great video, thank you!
I'd like to add one more method: Using the waste materials als mulch. I don't use food scaps for mulch, but it's a great way to compost weeds or plant material that is left over after harvesting. And I don't have to carry the weeds to the compost pile :)
I currently have a hot compost, cold compost, a Johnson-Su bioreactor, and a couple of bokashi buckets. I definitely want to give vermicomposting a go.
WHOA
Thank you for all the info! I’m getting started and Learning as much as I can. Regarding burying food scraps, my Filipino grandparents did that. Well, they actually would throw the scraps down from their kitchen patio to their garden. Their garden was so lush and green. They lived in HI so I’m sure the humidity helped the scraps breakdown faster.
Thank you so much for your videos! I just began a job working at a local plant nursery and your videos have been so helpful to my training!
Thank you for including apartment dwellers! You and another subscriber gave me vermicomposting advice and my worms are thriving (so far). I would love to see more tips/tricks/ideas for apartment dwellers from you. And as always, thanks for linking to other people for additional info. The community you are fostering is why I am a happy subscriber :)
It's comin' :)
This is so perfect! Thank you for posting this. I just started my first garden (planted some starts a few weeks ago) and I'm looking into getting what I need to start composting! I'm also trying my hand at starting seeds indoors. I followed your advice from some of your other videos and am starting to see some little sprouts. I'm using a heating pad and a grow light. Question though, how long do I leave the dome on? Do I leave it on? Crack it open? Take it off completely? Help!
I usually crack slightly until all have germinated
Your videos are literally the best! It has little bit for everyone...! Thanks for putting the effort ! Appreciate much!
Congratulations on reaching 200,000 subscribers. I am not surprised because in starting a container organic vegetable garden on my balcony for the first time this year, and having watched tons of UA-cam videos to get ready, yours are the most simple yet comprehensive to understand. They give me that 'I can do this' feeling. Thank you that. I do have a question about beet transplanting in a pot or container. I have a 4-pack of beets from a nursery because we've had an unusually cold spring here in Toronto and it's too late to start from seeds. What size container do I need to accommodate these for beet plants and how far apart should they be?
Hoping you can answer that before I mess up.
A new urban gardener,
Jeannette Sokolka
I've noticed that my kitchen trash can has virtually no odor anymore due to me basically throwing all my veggie scraps in my diy compost bin (Home Depot bucket with drilled holes). Its frustrating to think of how much food waste I could have been saving😫 Yesterday, I went to turn it and noticed it steaming! I thought it was going to catch fire until I researched that thats what its SUPPOSED to be doing. Fascinating! Question: can moldy fruit go in the compost bin? It's not gonna hurt the process?
Theres no problem adding mouldy fruit to a hot compost, I think it can be a problem in bokashi composting since it can outcompete the beneficial bacteria there but mould won't thrive in the heat that a hot compost reaches.
I haven't noticed any problems in wintertime when the compost is colder either.
@@awarose thank you!
Been burying mine right in the garden with my plants for years it’s fast and easy and the worms are longer than my hand
Wandering Nature I just started doing this
I do the same. Faster, easier. I never had enough for a compost bin. I do freeze my stuff first before I bury...breaks down faster.
Bunkiebe F
@@WakandaBabe I didn't know freezing first helps break down faster. Thanks for sharing the tip.
@@WakandaBabe freezing takes a lot of unnecessary energy, I'd say.
Thanks a lot! That's a lot of very helpful composting techniques. I am already using some of it and will definitely try the other ways. happy Gardening and Keep on growing!
Love your channel Kevin! Thanks for being so informative in your videos.
Hey, you're part Filipino. Been watching your show for a while. Good show
Thx!
Thanks for remembering us apartment dwellers!
#neverforget
What method did u use?
I’m so glad for this video. I’m a lazy gardener and thought I was doing something wrong with just dropping the scraps into the garden☺️ I’m gonna try some of the other methods
Thank you so much for this! I’ve wanted to compost for years and finding what was right for me and my garden set up has been hard. This video has been the most informative and simple to understand.
You are so welcome!
Just found you in the last few days. Love everything I have watched. Just curious Have your neighbors taken your cue and planted gardens in their front yards
Sadly no!
What a great video. How is it that AI knew what I was wondering about. Crazy. Thank you for all the options and for the quick and professional way you make the vids for us to watch. Much blessings in your garden and life.
My composting journey on a balcony in Hong Kong:
I bought lots of old, neglected, sad potted plants cheap online.
I then dug out most of the plants and put them in a few large (empty) plant pots and left them to breakdown for a few months. (I also added kitchen scraps to them)
Recently, I started digging some of this partially broken down material into the soil in the other pots (the pots that I had previously dug the plants out of).
These pots are something like 75% old soil, 25% partially broken down organic matter.
I am now planting in them and so far, so good - things are growing :)
I have added some clay from the local trails into these pots and there are worms, etc living inside most of them.
I might be being naive, but composting seems rather easy: add organic matter to earth, wait a little, and then plant into it.
I've tried food scraps and fish last year they were about the same. My wife is Filipino it was a great experience going to the Philippines
Did the fish make it stink?
If you're truly an Epic gardener you'll notice I pruned a ficus, not a bougainvillea ;)
Yup. your lola (grandmother) will be disappointed. :-D
Epic Gardening as you were trimming I said not a bougainvillea cuz you’d be wearing gloves. Lol
LOL
Haha! 🤣 yes, I did notice the ficus plant 🌱🌿
Also the dried up herb gone to seed.. haha 🍂
If you’re my grandson, papaluin ko ang pwet mo!😀 that’s not a bougainvillea 😀😀😀
This very helpful, I just started composting and I have the tumbler system. Thanks for the tips!
I have that same hot compost bin. I found it in the garage today being used as a storage device. Apparently my grandma gave it to my mother as a gift 4 years ago. I’m starting a compost today with it.
I didn’t know I could do this in my apartment! 😲
Crossing my fingers you'll consider making a video focusing on just worm composting. 🤞
He's got one.
I'll do an in depth on my bin, but i do have a few
I live in an apartment and have a small patio space and I this is what I do: I use a compost tumbler and added red worms to it. occasionally I will sift out the fine finished scrap particles into a large plant pot filled with soil and more worms. I'll stir the dirt scrap mix in the plant pot for a couple weeks and with the help of the worms, all your are left with is dark fertile soil.
Fantastic video and great tips. Learned a lot and pushing to get great compost. We managed to get some superb compost this year after trial errors and following your tips. Thank you.
Hahaha "boogunbilya" as it is natively spoken. Love it!
Just went on a composting kick on YT. Perfectly timed Kevin!
Gotcha covered!
As always, educational and so well organized; systematic way of explaining the topic. This is such an important subject and a much-needed video! Thank you!! You're also a very pleasant and handsome presenter, great energy!
Thanks for this video Kevin, just learned a lot about composting.
Glad to know you're partly Filipino, that's why you are so gwapo. ❤️
9:40 "decompose meat and bones in two weeks" anyone who've watched crime documentaries thinking what I'm thinking? XD
Oh I have no idea with gardening whatsoever but just wanted to start composting because of the amount of food scarp that my family produces. I am in between choosing vermicomposting and bokashi and will try to grow my vegetables from the products afterwards. I'm so excited! Thank you for this very informative video. Wish me luck! Cheers!
My wife and I now have four of your raised beds. They are fantastic. We have complete control over the soil.
We had a great winter garden growing but sadly temperature suddenly and unexpectedly dropped to 17 degrees and wiped out everything.
We will soon be ordering three or four more of the raised beds.
I cannot praise them enough.
Great product.
Sorry if this is a bad question but why aren’t it we Worrying about the mold ?
The white mold is actually part of the bokashi process. You know the process is working when you see the right type of mold and smell a pleasant tangy scent.
Oh, and if you see green mold and smell putrid rotting meat, something went terribly wrong 😁
Was just thinking how to do this today on my apartment patio
Boom
Absolutely fascinating! I wish I had the time and energy for learning worm composting. Love this video! I did hot compost last year, but I have a young child, and that was TOO much work!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. Am doing a community project and researching recycling compost. This was very helpful.