New Gardener Compost Series E-2: Grass Clippings & Cardboard - Get Your Compost Piles Started Now!
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- There is no need to have compost made in 30 days but I found cardboard and grass clippings heat up very nicely. I show you how to start a lawn/grass clippings and cardboard compost pile. All the keys to making your own endless supply of compost. These 2 items are free and readily available.
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Gary, thank you for the video. I have tons of cardboard but no grass. What would you recommend as a substitute?
I love this recipe. So many channels ask you to use chicken manure cow manure, other things most people don’t have. I like the simplicity and using what we have. And the fact that it’s very cheap.
Glad to help and it works.
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Thanks so much! Saving money is good.
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Omg now I know what to do with my Amazon boxes.
My thoughts exactly
Oh yeah!
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I was just getting all my amazon boxes ready for the recycling truck, not anymore lol...thanks😁
Watching this video right after tearing up 4 large boxes for my compost bin, and your comment is the first I saw 😂
Greetings from the UK.
I compost a cardboard/grass/vegetable garden waste in 3'x3' bays.
I'm fortunate in having a commercial paper shredder which reduces the cardboard to 1½"x¼" chips & add it at a volumetric rate of 1:3 cardboard to grass/garden waste. This mix is added once a week.
I've found that generally, I'll have to wet down the mix after 10 days, when the core temperature falls from 150°F to 125°F. This immediately brings the temperature back up, demonstrating falling moisture levels due to evaporation.
It usually takes me 6 weeks to fill one bay due to ongoing decomposition reducing the level & after that, I turn it all into the next, empty bay & after a further 6 weeks, it's reduced by half, at which point temperature is little above ambient & fungal/worm decomposition is the main activity.
This compost then stands until applied in the winter (I'm 100% "no dig") & a 1-1½" layer annually, provides sufficient nutrients for 2-3 crops a year off each bed.
First year composting! 2nd year gardening! Thank you for all the advice! :D
Second-year composting here and first-year gardening! Having a blast watching all the UA-cam advice :)
Congrats on both
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My dad cold composts.
I've been working in the produce department of the local grocery store for over a year, and as such I have ample access to cardboard and scraps/waste, which I take advantage of. I regularly collect cardboard, which I cut into small squares and place in trash bags. As for scraps, the ones I'm most able to collect are cabbage leaves, corn husks, bell pepper shells, and asparagus trimmings. I also collect leaves and pine needles whenever possible, and my dad uses grass clippings as mulch.
All great stuff!
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I layered the bottom of my flitered out side with cardboard yesterday to help attrach earth worms😊
Grass clippings are awesome. We use a mulching mower and my yard looks better than the neighbors that use chemical companies.
So true
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Running the cardboard through a paper shredder is great! Very satisfying too!
Thanks
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Wow, what type of paper shredder do you have? It must be heavy duty?
Every time I’m looking for gardening help. Seems like you are always the one I find my self watching. I think you have answers for everything. Thanks for all the help.
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A small investment in a paper shredder will really help. I use that it works a treat, much faster.
Good tip.
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Thank you for sharing the tip about not using grass clippings from a lawn that has been chemically treated!
Yep. Just did another compost video today and said the same thing.
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I like the money saving ideas on this channel.
Glad to help. Saving is good!
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This a great idea. Thanks for sharing, I have a huge pile of cardboard we needed to take to the Recycling Centre, now it's got an awesome new purpose.
It works so well
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Paid cardboard recycling is one of the ways cities farm people.
Cardboard is a good and desiccant. Thank you TRG Be well..
Thats a good word
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I love your videos. I am learning a lot. Thanks.
Glad to share
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Great video.
Dude, you read my mind. This is basically why i opened youtube. *watches intently*
So glad to read it.
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Love it. Thank you. Going to start this tomorrow!
You will find it is very rewarding
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This a very informative video. I also enjoyed your in-bed vermi-composting video with the PVC. We shred our cardboard and paper, we bag our grass clippings, and save our veggie scraps, coffee, tea, and egg shells. We layer that on the compost pile and turn it once a month. In the spring and summer, we also add in our chickens' bedding, which is mostly pine shavings with a small amount waste.
Thanks for watching
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Very good
Thank you so much 😊 Gary. Wonderful information
Glad to share
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Awesome!! I currently have 3 different compost piles I'm experimenting with. Im really enjoying learning new things!
Same!
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Great tip, I will have to start collecting cb. I am using grass (my own) and leaves that I gathered in the fall and chopped up with the mower. It has been around 140 degrees. Also have been adding more beds this yr. I started my plants from seeds this yr and ran out of room too fast.
Nice job on the seed starts
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New I been collecting this cardboard for a reason I just couldn't figure out why until now! Appreciate you!!!
Now you have a great reason!
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Thank you for sharing this information.
Glad to share
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It’s a great grass and weed controller too. I get my cardboard at an appliance store, nice large pieces.
It works great for that
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I’m doing my own experiment with cardboard. Had some thick boxes from a brewing supplier. Using a couple as growing towers for some potatoes. So far they are working wonderful. Thought I would use them and then compost the remaining cardboard in the fall. The potatoes are coming out of the 24 inch boxes already. I just fill around the plants as you would any grow tower.
Thats smart. Good experiment
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Thanks for this. I keep forgetting that card board is so compostable. With the huge Amazon influx of boxes these days. It would make sense for every household that buys from any online shop, have a compost pile so those boxes don’t end up in land fills. I’m always looking for brown in the summer months. Ty
Cardboard is loved by worms
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I just got a greenhouse for my birthday...I plan to keep a compost pile inside to produce heat for the winter ;) The cardboard is great. I let my cardboard soak in a bin of water beforehand. It really retains the water well.
I hear that works. Good luck
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Very informative, thank you
Yep
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I have a Second push mower used to chop and mulch up leaves and Cardboard
Oh smart on the cardboard. So simple
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That's a great idea! I was debating using my leaf shredder after soaking the cardboard. Not sure how that will work but the lawn mower is a great idea!
Thanks so much for sharing! This is so in time! I’m trying to compost 1st time and don’t have much “brown”, now all the package boxes have a perfect place to go! Thanks!
That will work!
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Great variations on composting Gary! Your box in a box experiment could be very enjoyable to follow along with you and any results that may naturally flow. Happy Gardening! -Bob...
Trying to keep it simple and doable for everyone. I love the experiments
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I almost ended the video too early and missed the experiment; That is why I came to the video was to see if anyone else was doing a cardboard box compost. I was using egg cartons and clippings only inside a cardboard box so this looks similar and I will have to also try it. Nice production.
It work actually. Just don't forget to keep the pile moist. Once change I would make is less roofing. When it gets hot here... it dries out too fast.
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@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Thank you.
I did use cardboard in my first year, last year, and it worked ok. Its relatively easy to get, but there is some work in processing it. Last fall I gathered 13 big compressed bags of leaves from my tree lined neighborhood. But when I run out it will be back to cardboard.
That works
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I don’t have a lot of room, so I use the SoilSaver. It is a lot more work, but I use a regular shredder from Office Depot. With the big bags of used coffee grinds from Starbucks and kitchen scraps and outside greens (don’t use my husband treated grass), it literally is boiling overnight. I went into the garage and found some empty U-Haul boxes I was holding onto and into the shredder it went. The compost is done in three months. It is magical. I will be interested to see how quick your compost comes out. I know the black SoilSaver really heats it up too. My daughter actually helped me today because she enjoys the smell of the freshly used coffee grinds. One last hint, the large amounts of coffee grinds eliminates any smells.
Thanks on the grounds. Sound s like a nice system. Ill be doing vids every couple days for the 3 composting video on the pile.
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How often do you turn the compost? I live on a farm in germany and could probably produce in large quantaties (Straw + Grass + ocasional cardboard). Turning would be done with a telescopic handler. I could help a lot of gardeners in my area out with cheap compost.
So probably ever 7 to 10 days. Ill be working on that for video 3
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Gary (and everyone) - if you want to heat up your compost pile big time, get spent grains from your local brewery. Holy hell it's AMAZING. And it doesn't take much. But keep an eye on it because you don't want it 'too' hot to where you're hurting your bacteria.
Also corrugated (cardboard) has those channels in it that worms LOVE which is why it's such a hit with worm people.
I have a micro-cut paper shredder for browns but at this point I mostly rely on getting straw bales and add layers of it. But damn - spent grains is off the charts amazing.
Thanks so much. The cardboard is great. We have several breweries around hear. Thanks
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I don't need 30-day compost, but with limited space on a small urban property with many large trees, I need all of last year's yard waste returned to the garden before this year's yard waste overflows the system. I shred all my household cardboard (glossy, colorful, etc) with a crosscut shredder, and I shred all my yard and kitchen waste under the lawnmower before it goes in the compost bin. Only plastic and aluminum go to the curb. I generally do a big batch with the lawnmower once in spring and once in fall. The rest of the time I am mindlessly accumulating whole material. Now having three Earth Machine composters and five 100L Rubbermaid trash bins I'm almost able to keep on top of the volume! One more Earth Machine ought to do it.
Nice Process!
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This is great! I really want to try it. May have to wait for Autumn though. I'm a bit concerned about the heat in my area. The Indian reservation near us tried a community compost system a few years back. It got so hot in the summer that it caught fire 😱 (Southern Nevada Desert. We can get 115f- 120f temps for weeks).
Wow.
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I think this is fantastic idea! It saves the landfill from so much garbage. I use a lawn company that claims their weed and feed is safe enough to let dogs and children walk on it after it has dried. Would those grass clippings be safe to use?
It works well too.
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I'm lucky in that I have a commercial size paper shredder which handles even heavy duty corrugated cardboard easily, cross cutting it into 1½" by ¼".
I mix it with grass clippings & other green waste 2:1 greens to cardboard by volume, mixed well together & watered 7-10 days later, as it's surprising how dry it gets. I've seen temperatures hit 155°F then a few days later fall to 90°F & invariably it's down to drying out, as adding water brings the temperature back up around 140 or more where it stays for much longer
If I run out of composting bay space, I move the oldest into those bags used to deliver bulk sand & aggregate, with polythene over the top & they're breathable enough to ensure aerobic breakdown continues.
Might be worth investing in one myself
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I would never have that much grass. Sounds good and I have a metal composter. I would have plenty of cardboard but not enough grass.
Food scraps count toward that. Coffee grounds too.
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Thanks for this video! I love all your stuff! 2:04 Do you want a ton of it in the fall so you cover your beds with it for overwintering? What sort of cover crop do you plant over the compost if so? Also, have you ever tried to pick up old veggies/fruit from local grocery store to compost? Stuff they throw out. I was going to drive around to the grocery stores and ask and also hit the starbucks for coffee grounds.
Yep. I want to have it for overwintering and for spring. Thats why I am no rush but getting it hot helps. No cover crops yet. That will be in the future. I used to get coffee grounds but never old produce. I never tried.
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From what I understand, you don't want to use citrus or onions.
If that is all I have is it really still considered good compost for providing all vegetable plants need. If so it’s an answer to my problem of finding the money to buy in compost by the bag which is all that is available in my remote town. I can add my chicken house clean out hay and manure but only every 6 weeks. Should that also be layered for a more beneficial breakdown process combined with a layer of grass and cardboard? Or do you just throw it on top of the pile? I have never made compost as I don’t have leaves etc etc that seemed to be required. You have certainly made the idea doable for me both financially and physically. Thank you.
So the layering helps it heat up but anything will compost over time. You have good stuff. I would just start by layer it as you get it in an area. Worst case it takes a year and you have great stuff. Ill talk more about the idea in next videos. Chicken bed and waste great stuff to compost.
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WHY did I recycle all that cardboard last week?! Fortunately I have more.....thanks for this!!!
Yep
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My compost only stays hot for 3-4-5 days then cools back down again. I use grass clippings, veggie scraps and pine chips from my chicken coop. Every time I cut my lawn I pull out all the compost material and layer it again with the new grass clippings and it heats up again for a few days 🤷♂️
That sounds about right. Nice stuff
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What state do you live in if you don’t mind me asking? Your videos are fantastic and I love following them. I’m not the best at gardening, but I’m also in a zone 9 location. It seems very different from where you are.
Hi Gary. Another great video from you sir 👍👍👍. How about those brown paper bags for yardwaste? whats the best way to compost them instead of tearing them into small pieces?
Thanks so much. Brown bags can be layered in and just left to break down. Once wet they start to go quickly
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Watches video , right starting some more composting today it seems empty joraform chamber and grass and cardboard on hand
Perfect!
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These chunks of 3-layered cardboard won't break down anytime soon. I have seen intact pieces of those in soil, burried under a think layer of mulch after 2 years. I have also seen those in a compost pile well after a year sitting among greens. I'd either shred them into very fine pieces (if I had a machine to do it) or maybe rinse them with water prior to layering, since that helps to break them down mechanically.
These are all gone quickly. Moisture is key but if they have any wax on it it can take much longer.
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Hi Gary, any update on the $0 garden dig project you started? Was really looking forward to the update video you said would be posted the next day haha. Thanks!
I know sorry. Side tracked side track and now its embarrassing. Ill plant it today and show the protection piece.
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As Marylanders we also have a great resource from the Bay in shells. Can one use crab shells in a compost pile? I think we're obviously going to expect a longer decay for those items, but wondering if they are usable. Wife wants to use them...I think they will smell rotten and attract flies. Any insight appreciated Gary. Thanks again!
I'm not sure if Gary uses the crab shells but you might check out John @ Growing Your Green.com's' videos about composting those shells. I'm going to guess the video was about a year ago but I'm not sure. He says to use them in your compost because it has a component, chitin that is good for the soil. I use my shrimp shells in my worm bin. I bury it deep so the stray cats don't dig it up. They do take a while to decompose.
I heard you could but I havent seen how. The would have to be well crushed though.
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Maybe run them through a blender with some water before to crush them up! I agree with the notion that they need to be as small as possible, but technically they should compost.....all organic matter does eventually.
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Question. Could I mix in like a few shovels of fresh out of the chicken pin pine shavings and litter with the grass layers.
That's something that I wish I had was a chicken coop to clean out or Rabbit beds! Those are both perfect fertilizers. I wouldn't see why you couldn't add them.
@@shandysgarden idk either. But I know if I add it strait to my garden I have to do it in the winter or fall because anywhere I added some extra shortly before planting transplants they got burnt up really bad.
Of course. They would be great. I am just giving you 2 things that work together well. More in manures is better
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I have been thinking of doing the same. A lot of videos on UA-cam are recommending using hemp bedding instead because it is supposed to work better in coop and compost quicker then pine shavings. If you are laying would you just add the chicken manure as another layer?
I was just thinking about this. My neighbors have chickens.
Thanks for the video. I have access to lots of free newspapers. Can i tear newspapers in small pieces abd and use these and grass clippings as the only two ingredients for making compost?
Yep that works.
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My grass still has a lot of seed... isn't that an issue? Here I thought I was doing great... layering, turning it every few days, even ordered a thermometer. I finally gave up on mine because when I put a thermometer in the middle, it went down to 60°. Ruh roh! There were big brown bugs all in the pile under the cardboard. That's not a good sign.
Well, this video makes me want to start again, so much simpler. I am concerned about all the grass seed sprouting later, though.
So just as I showed seems to be working. Really fluff the grass.
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I noticed since you now have a new garden and starting composting that you have not mentioned anything about the use of coffee grounds. Have you stopped using coffee grounds either in your compost barrel/pile or garden? Great garden! Because I'm in Texas and about a month ahead in the garden I tend to watch your 2019 series.
The Starbucks stopped keeping them for us all.
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Sorry to hear that. I had to stop picking up grounds because I had more than I probably ever use. I ordered my second set of grow bags from your shop a couple days ago.
Is there a certain length of time I can wait to use the compost if I use grass clippings that had weed and feed pellets within the last 2 or 3 months? Like, let it sit for 1 or 2 years before use?
Would shredded paper have the same effect?
It would
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This is very interesting! We have a big pile of grassroots we had to pull off to open a few beds. We're new gardeners and now we're stuck with this big pile of grassroots with soil and don't know what to do with it... Do you think this technique could work with the kind of material we have?
Yeah it would work. Some clippings too.
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If your worried you can keep the roots and debris in black garbage bag in the sun for a while before adding to compost piles. The heat will kill the roots but the plastic will hold all the good organic matter. Then just dump it into your compost piles.
Great video! Do you have information on how you built your compost stations! I’m getting ready to build mine.
In the playlist for compost I show the walk through and discuss the design. I dont build it but give lots of close up on how it was made.
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Question: I don't really have access to grass. I am in the country, and my lawn is not just grass (a lot of weeds too) and I just like to let it sit and reabsorb into the soil. Can I use other green leaves from plants or stuff pulled from the garden instead? Also what about veggie scraps?
For compost, yes to all the above. Anything can be composted down and greens can be leaves
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Hi! I'm concerned that cardboard has chemicals in it. Have you researched that at all?
I thought you were supposed to put unused food in compost. I have 3 gallon sized bags of old food saved up in my freezer. Is that wrong?
You definitely can add in the food, just balance it with some brown material like boxes, dried leaves, pine needles... This is just what he is doing in his and wanted to show how simple it can be to create a large amount of compost easily :)
I dont have the grass. Could I use alfalfa pellets r small Maranga limbs and cotten seed mill
You can
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I don't have a lawn, is weeds okay?
I would totally think that anything green would be fine especially since it's going to heat up enough to kill weed seeds.
Any thing green is good.
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thanks, I am anxious to to compost this year. I got lot of chicken, sheep, goat manure too.
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Would it be a good idea to soak all the cardboard in a tub so you can just rip it into wet little pieces a lot easier?
You dont want it soak. A light spray make it tear pretty easily
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Does it matter if your lawn has a lot of weeds?
Nope just green is green. Weed or grass
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Hey can I use dried grass clippings? Btw I love your channel, I've learnt a lot from you.
Thanks. Dried grass becomes a brown or carbon like the cardboard. You can use it but you still need a nitrogen source.
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Can you use grass clippings that have weeds in them?
Yes! But you will have a greater likelihood of weeds appearing anywhere you use the compost. But the weeds breakdown into plant food too.
How safe is the glue that holds the corrugation to the inner and outer layers for the soil? Food?
I read add a lot and feel it is not toxic and good to go. Usually sugars etc. Very simple.
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Should the compost area be in shaded area? Under tree?
I doesnt have to be but it helps keep it moist.
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So easy, would love to do this but I have no lawn for grass clippings. Tons of cardboard and maple leaves, (both browns) but no grass. If I buy a bale of fresh green hay (not straw) would that work instead?
if is fresh cut green. Food scraps, coffee ground, green leaves work.
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I put a black plastic compost bin in a shady part of my garden . I have been layering produce scraps and a little weeds with brown leaves. It never seems hot and it's filling quickly! Think it will still compost?
It will. It will be slow but it still happens.
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What if you've used a granular weed and feed on the lawn that gets watered into the base?
I know say wait a good 60 days. You might be fine but it is getting absorb into the plants
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@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Yeah I'm going to wait a good while to use grass clippings regardless. Thanks for the great content as always!
Hi gary, love your channel, I have a question. I dont have the space to really build a compost pile or the set to you have... could I use this technique in a garbage bin? With a lid.. maybe some holes on the top or side?? Thanks!!
Holes in it... yep. Youd want to as youll have to move it occasional to aerate it.
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@@THERUSTEDGARDEN how many times should I move the material around? 2 or 3 times a week?
Thanks for the reply!
Just a question, we don’t use it but just wondering. If your pile is getting up to 140+ degrees, wouldn’t that kill off any pesticide residues? Also weeds?
It is suppose too kill off seeds. The pesticides could be. But it all might not all heat up. I have read it does but not so sure for what chemicals.
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Grass clippings & cardboard = nitrogen & carbon = meat & potatoes for the bacteria. A 50/50 ratio is close enough.
Bon appetit!
Thanks. It all get to be compost. 50/50 is great
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Did the grass mat up from not turning?
It can if you over do it the layer. It can smell but nothing a fork and turn wont fix.
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Would shredded paper work as well???
I thing so. Just want all to be loose and fluffy to start
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I just finished shredding paper for this exact purpose. Browns can be hard to find in spring which is why his advice about cardboard is so spot on. Get stuff out of the waste stream and build epic soil!
Love the channel gary ..i keep reading the pile has to be 3ft x3ft x3ft ? I dont have alot of grass clippings ..does its matter ? Thank you
It helps for hot composting as you want some insulation around a core. But you can still pile it and build it now. It just breaks downs slower. As you build it up and get quantity, you can make a hot composting pile later.
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I don't have enough room for that type of compost pile. Can I do it in one of those plastic tubs with a cover
Yep
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Question: if I use a plastic tub with a top, do I need to put holes in the tub?
Would hay and cardboard work. The hay is greenish but was field dried before bailing. So not as miost as grass clippings. Thanks
Hay becomes a carbon brown. Depends how green it is. Might be passed its nitrogen content benefit.
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In my experience alfalfa hay....if that's what your referring to, will heat up on its own very well on its own even when dried. Rained on dry hay baled too soon can lead to haystack fires. Straw or grass hay would be more brown in my opinion. I would not hesitate to use alfalfa hay as a green ingredient with the cardboard.
Are brown tree leaves considered browns?
Yep and when green actually greens as a nitrogen source
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will you turn the cb pile?
I asked too soon
Ill talk more about it in video 3 but as little as possible.
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What about the glue and ink?
I think all boxes are non toxic glue and ink . I use cardboard in my worm bins no dead worms !0
My worms love the cardboard glue.
@@kathytaylor9798 Yes they do, I think the glue is sugar based, worms love sugar cola I blend it in with there chow sometimes.
Pretty sure they use corn starch to bind the cardboard and soy based ink to print with. I could be wrong though.
Glue is fine. Tons of research. Flat ink is fine. Glossy ink is probably okay but I have read mixed results.
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Can I use pine cones instead of cardboard for the brown? I have a boatload of pine cones
They can be composted the wont act like the cardboard though in this mix however
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Help! Followed another UA-cam recipe that ended up smelling like sewer. It was suppose to be ready in 2 weeks with grass clippings, shredded paper, kitchen scraps soil and any brown garden scraps. Then each layer was to be sprayed with a mixture of beer, coke and ammonia. I did turn and mix it then abandoned the project till this spring and it still smelled some. I spread it evenly across the ground and tilled it in as soon as ground could be worked. Plants are very happy but boy did it stink in the process. You mentioned ammonia smell but this was sewer. What do I do to prevent this?
Ugh. Well stink smell is bad but doesnt mean its not breaking down. More browns or carbons cut the smell down but 2 weeks i aggressive and it is going to stink.
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I dumped my grass clippings into a hardware "cloth" bent in a cylinder thing and forgot about them, noticed a boggy smell in about two weeks, removed the cylinder and found the bottom of the pile was burning hot, black and grayish, and very stinky. Stinky like a bog = anaerobic, I believe. Needs air. I had been told grass clippings dumped in a pile would begin to stink. No cardboard was needed to make it burn. I was also told that burned grass like that is not real compost. I don't know. I dumped the stinky part in a hugel bed I am building and I am going to add cardboard as shown here next time.
Brendan Hall I’ve used cardboard and grass to build garden beds for years. But usually by layering directly in the new bed. Had never tried this “quick” method and probably will now just stick to Gary’s way and add more cardboard to cut the smell. Have never, in 40 years of gardening, had something so stinky to deal with. It was like sewer on steroids 😂
Any concern with the glue in the corrugated cardboard?
None. It is heavily researched too. Not sure about glossy ink but that seems to be okay too but I am still looking.
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Does this method draw mice and bugs?
I never had mice but bugs are always around
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What about cardboard that's not dull in appearance, like cereal boxes?
I think it is okay but I have read mixed reviews. I am just not sure yet
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Chemicals in cardboard ?
Possible but most are made with nontoxic glue and wood pulp. They make it cheap.
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Can you use shredded paper instead of cardboard?
Yep
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We have bahia and various clippings that have a lot of weed seeds. Would this be an issue?
If you put weed seeds in a compost pile, you need the compost to get really hot otherwise you will have weeds when you use the compost
Well if it heats up, it does kill the seeds but not all the pile heats. Can you cut when plants arent seeding. They usually have to get to a certain height.
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Thank you! I have a question, I’m about to move to a small farm where I finally have my horses at home and not boarding them, in fact I have room for six horses now. So I will have a ton of horse manure, how do I best compost it?
Second question: I saw for the first time lat. “Aphodiinael” last year out in the pasture, and they are amazing to go through horse manure and make it fluffy just in a couple of days, they make the pile of manure into loose fibres instead, can they mess up the process of composting?
Åsa Liden My friend who got me interested in gardening has three horses. His garden is unbelievable. He just cold composts. He puts manure, stuff from the stalls such as used straw, garden refuse, kitchen scraps all under a huge tarp. He lifts the tarp with something he made up. He basically does it for the next year. By the way, when he does his garden, he uses straw to mulch. It breaks down wonderfully. He has unbelievable soil because of this. His crops are amazing. Oh, the biggest hint. It may seem sort of gross, but he has orange and lemons trees where he puts the manure right under. I was sort of surprised, but the fruit is the best I have ever had in my life. I forget the reasoning behind it, but I read somewhere manure from horses and cows (not carnivorous animals) can be put under citrus trees, it doesn’t have to be composted.
Just piles where you want it to sit. It will compost itself and ready to use after a full 12 months. I think best is 18-24 months. Most just start piles and move to the right. Each year is a new pile for the garden. I am not familiar with the plant but it wont mess up composting. My concern might be seeds. But I dont know.
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Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) thanks for answering. I lived in north of Sweden earlier and made a bed of heat composting manure inside in my greenhouse and could have my tiny plants on top of it even if it was below 0C outside.
I’ll be experimenting with both cold and warm compost of mostly horse manure, I’ll have enough. 😂
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