Composting the Nastiest Stuff with the Melon Pit Method
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2017
- There are times you just want to compost some spoiled beef stew. Or fish. Or fettucine Alfredo.
Composting meat and other "yucky" items may not work the best in a backyard bin thanks to rats, dogs and other pests.
Here's how I compost the nasty things instead of throwing them out... and grow pumpkins (or melons) at the same time. I call them "melon pits." Pit composting will allow plants to take what they want as they grow and I've found it works quite well. Give it a try!
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Those boulder sounds were hilarious! Thanks.
I concur lol
Did you see the end of the video?
I've heard better, but only in cartoons. :)
I wish I had awesome boulders like that to repurpose around the garden
@@ChristopherEPineda My soil is full of huge rocks!!!! I thought it was a curse, but now I'm thinking a great resource ;)
That boulder was so perfectly rounded. Never dug one up that looked like that.
Love the SFX after the boulder got away
I buried a load of equally horrible stuff sometime back. A month later l went to re dig the state of decomposition. I had a shock of my life. There were about 4 monster earthworms, about a foot long and about half inch thick. They wriggled and l quickly covered them up..
Yup, after watching you for about a year and buying a few of your books, I have the family put all the old leftovers, and kitchen scraps from food preparation and scrape their plates after meals into 2.5-gallon buckets. When a bucket gets full, I bury the contents, about 2 feet deep, and plant either on the mound or very close to it.
Nice one! My granny showed me that method some 60+ years ago. Good to see it validated.
Most entertaining boulder sound effects.
All the best!
Kent - that is great. And thank you.
My aunt showed me that one too. She made her backyard super fertile in the course of her life.
I brought your compost book but watching you do it is soooo entertaining!
Thank you - I appreciate it.
Love the Rock. Love the sound effects even more.
In Australia we have the same lizards.
I have just called them legless lizards ever since I used to play with them as a kid
Gotta love your sound effects🎈
I absolutely love your precision seed spacing and planting depth, lol. Unless I'm mistaken, nature doesn't spread things out 2-4" apart, and it seems to have been working for some time now. Great vid, think my plot at the high school should have squash hills like this next year:)) Happy 4th of July tomorrow, hope you folks have a great day!
So true
loved the sound effects and how you showed the way you can scoop seeds out of a pumpkin and throw them right in the dirt
This video has sold a book. I purchased the Audible version. About to listen.
Thank you - I appreciate it. I think you'll find it inspiring.
That worm snake is called a Caecilian btw
In reality this is a how to compost your enemies dead body.
Obviously... Did you read his shirt
Sshhhhhhh
Thankfully, they'll never be able to follow that boulder's trail of destruction back to your new pumpkin mound. Phew!
I just compost everything in an anaerobic bucket with the help of probiotics (bokashi method). It didn't smell bad, except the compost tea. It smells terrible, but actually very good for the plant. I believe that kitchen scraps contain various nutrition for plants and one of the best compost.
"That's a nice boulder i like that boulder!!"
"including your enemies" I literally laughed out loud!!
Hahaa That line made me think of Carole Baskin!
Thank you for the video. Blind snakes are a keeper~ Found one while installing irrigation; was about 3 feet deep near some rotting/termite tree roots
David, do you even realize all of the damage you caused rolling that boulder toward on coming traffic! Oh man.
Just bought your book! Super excited to start reading it. :)
2:00 pure gold
That boulder looked familiar. Where we live there is very rocky soil and it's hard to dig anywhere and not come up with a pile of rocks of many sizes, from the 15-20 lb and less. Thanks for this video. I just did the same thing in my garden: dug a hole and threw stuff in and then planted over top. We have coyotes, ground squirrels, mice, skunks, cougars, bears and other 4 leggeds around here.
I like that boulder.....that is a niiiice boulder 😁
You made that rock a star! All the other rocks are going to be so jealous.
Like a rolling stone.
You Crack me up man. Those sound effects killed me!
I swear this dude is so underrated!!! I luv your stuff David!!! You are going to save lives my friend!!!
Lol! I loved the sound effects! Nearly as good as a boom!
Love your Compost Everything book ! also love Pushing The Zone ! your added humor to these videos just makes my day sometimes. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Thank you very much, Dennis.
David, you're seriously twisted. Those SFX man, too awesome!
Oh yes, and it smells amazing!
Great video to go w my coffee. Love a morning chuckle. 👍🌱
Boulder sounds though 😂😂😂
Mr David,
I just got the best present for my birthday, -All your books!
I am reading "Compost Everything" first and it’s great. Its a must have book for gardeners. Will recommend and pass on to other greenies. Thanks man.
That's fantastic - thank you, Jim. Much appreciated. I'm a better author than UA-camr - nice to know you're reading.
I was all like- "What, no screaming lady sounds?"
So timely! I just put out a bunch of similar nasty stuff yesterday, but I didn't dig a pit. I put it under several inches of mulch between my squash and artichokes. So far so good - no one dug it up yet.
That'll work.
I have been that in my garden for years. The soil is getting much better
Great work!
ROUND ROCK!
The Boulder was a meteor
Hi David. I read Solomon's book too, very eye opening for me. I then ended up composting a dozen squirrels (they were my enemies that year), one unfortunate cat, our parakeet, and some mullet heads inside of my lawn clipping pile. There were not even bones left in a matter of a couple of weeks, and that compost was fantastic. Also, I just ordered a paperback version of your book off Amazon, I prefer paper books and look forward to reading it just because I like your sense of humor. Home-brew fish emulsion next...
Excellent - thank you. My kind of composting.
Probably not applicable for your situation, but I dig holes with a 1700psi pressure washer. I've got decomposed granite about 2.5 to 3ft down. So I'll blast 3-4ft down then back fill with amended soil &/or compost mix then drop in a tree.
Maybe a solution for on grid urban homesteaders
That's a great idea. Thank you.
ha you kill me wait no... you compost me..
I'd like to compost my enemies. Those big boulders are good for Atlas stones.
If yer done with that boulder, can I have it?
Love the ending
I had to turn the volume down and just read the words. Sound affects were not for me haha. Thank you for sharring. Great information!
I like that boulder, that's a nice boulder
I think 6 inches of dirt over the top is enough. By the time the roots grow down, the compostables will be broken-down.
A lot of good worms help too.
I have a dead opossum, under my Swiss chard.
Hope you have a good insurance. You're funny. 🤣😂
Looks similar to the practice of using whole fish in the bottom of your planting hole.
You got it.
That pumpkin looks like calabasa which I buy in Puerto Rico..
Nice boulder! That would be a few bob in a garden centre
That looks like a cannon ball.
The strange worm you found is actually a "blind snake" or a thread snake. I found one in our bathroom a couple days ago. Wiry little thing. Had to google around to figure out what it was. They're found in tropical regions and SW Florida and many places around the world. They like termites apparently. Also found in garden pots. It's not venomous. Some varieties of the thread snake are the smallest snakes in the world, less than 3 inches.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptotyphlopidae
Fun stuff!
compost everything - I am constantly amazed how americans throw away things that are perfectly good because of a perception of "ickyness" to them. Like bones, moldy food, stinky food, etc. Anything that is organic is useful in the garden in some way! The compost pits is exactly how old homesteaders used to do outhouses - and when you move the outhouse each year, you plant a tree in the last hole. Same principle.
Not sure if u will see this or not, but just came back to this video after purchasing your audio book which was great by the way, I would love to see some videos of composting fish and the breakdown process or like where u said a while
Chicken bones and all was gone in the pile after a few days. Going to be trying these things at home in my pile lol.
Thanks, Super Hank. That would be interesting. I don't have a good pile at the moment, but busting open and active one and checking out the breakdown would be fun.
The boulder was too funny! You can also compost that stuff in a Joraform tumbler composter. You have to do a little at a time, and you have to add a hand full of wood pellets. You could get all that stuff in it but it would likely take a week, adding a little everyday. With the Joraform, you don't have to dig and you don't have to commit to a garden spot. It is metal, so no rats or possums. It's not ugly, it looks fine sitting in a corner of the garden. It gets hot in a day or two and it stays hot as long as I rotate it 2x day, so no flies. Downside is - It is pretty expensive and takes strength to put the thing together. I've been composting 30, but I just got this thing 3 months ago. It's a game changer IMO. And it proves that you don't have to have 1 cubic meter of material for it to get hot. Insulation and turning makes it possible to hot compost smaller volumes.
I haven't seen that before - I'll look them up.
That boulder 😂
I like this video…thanks a lot!
Thank you, Danny.
will the moldy food cause problems in your soil?
The outro... Can you bring it back? We need to hear more of it... Thanks! #BeeGood 🐝🐝🐝✌️
The sound effects of the Boulder, LMFAO!
Another Great way to compost! No sense of wasting anything. What is your opinion on the Jadam method of feeding the same thing back to the plant? Thanks & Liked😁
I'm experimenting with it a bit - hard to say. I like the theory. I throw banana peels to banana trees, jackfruit rinds to jackfruit, etc. I'm sure it all helps.
The skinks love my compost. 🤣
We buried a rotten cougar and bunny slaughter scraps under our garden, happy composting 😊
ROFL! I miss that water pump sometimes, in your newer videos.
Wow David, the color of the flesh on that pumpkin is spectacular. I just *love* that orange! Tell me... Do you plan to try and cross it with one that has a thicker cavity to try and improve it? That would be so awesome if you managed to do that. (Make your own special breeds of pumpkins.) =D BTW Nice hat!
🌱Be Blessed ღ 🌼
Do you recommend road kill as a filler for the melon pit?
Sure. I've used goat organs, dead roosters, etc.
I'm looking at the hole you dug, and thinking back to the melon pit I dug (following the instructions in "Compost Everything!") a week ago (my first! I was very excited. There's a baby Tulip Poplar seedling on top now, but I'm thinking of trying to grow beans for the first time, so so I might just put some navy beans on it, too. I'm in NC, in a little patch of Zone 8 [ish] climate)...and I'm pretty sure I dug too deep. It's thick red clay here, and the hole was almost waist deep...like three feet. I figured that it would be better to ensure a bit more than the minimum "12 inches of soil" you recommended for covering meat and such... I put some hearty helpings of wood, rotting wood, yard waste, four pounds or more of rotting beef liver, two pounds of chicken scraps, some rib bones, eggshells, various quantities and types of kitchen refuse, and watered as I filled the hole with dirt...did I screw up? I'm a little worried I buried the nutrients too deeply. Also kicking myself because apparently I did a heck of a lot more work than I needed to! *sheepish expression* I should have checked youtube first! I must've read and reread the bit in "Grow Or Die" and the instructions in "Compost Everything" at least thirty separate times. But youtube...no, I didn't think to check youtube. *head thunking on wall* Hey, thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us, sir. God bless you, and your family! :-)
And I just resumed the video, and you explained that the hole would normally be deeper...literally sseconds after my pause point. Boy do I feel dumb. Still, does it sound like I did it right?
That's the best way of composting in the heart of the city. But my question is How long will it take to decay and suitable for planting ?
I plant right away - doesn't seem to hurt anything.
Thanks for the info.
how about for the lawn? Can I cut out a patch of grass and dig down 2ft and bury some scraps? The soil on my property are sandy clay. Not fertile at all.
Definitely.
4:45 I found a loaf of bread at that same market
It's more than a year now since this video was made, any update on the squash and the compost pit?
I just made my new pit and thinking to dig and mix the stuff i put in it ( that it is not needed base on the vid, and i will follow your lead)
Yes - it did well. I was going to get a good pumpkin, then the vine borers killed the vine. Wasn't the compost's problem, though!
That's a Muscat squash?
I did planted a bunch along the fence, now that the rainy season came.
Some sort of C. moschata. Not sure.
Lol, I’ll fix the boulder damage later. It’s all good.
Ah new way to kill enemy, compost them lol 😂
Well there was almost certainly some small amount of gold under that glacial boulder. But nice pit nonetheless!
We have gophers in our area. Would this end up attracting their attention even more?
I mean to perfectly come down on a huge boulder...
I had a lot of left over food in the fridge, and I can do same like your too. But I scared of animals could come and eat it
If it's deep enough, it's not a problem. I have had dogs dig up shallower pits, though.
even your enemies!!! bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa
Looks like a Tennessee cannon ball.
That was by far the best boulder rolling away sound FX. Why are we not seeing rats being composted ?
I poisoned them all.
Crap that boulder just rolled by
we do the same thing but we throw ashes on top of it
Ashes are a great amendment.
skink!
I think it would work out better to use Bokashi to make the meat scraps unpalatable to rats rather than rely on their not discovering what you buried only 18" in the ground. You could then bury the meat as you did without feeding a whole colony.
They haven't ever been a problem with this method yet; however, fermenting first would be fine if you were worried about it. I'm too lazy.
Looks like a legless lizard. Some folks (oddly enough) mistake them for snakes because of their wee little legs.
I think that is some type of Skink
Oh look, a T-Rex egg...
Rachel really needs to quit leaving her dishes outside when you are digging up boulders. I bet she was mad
Don't you need to dry the seeds before planting them?....I also bury my compost and plant over it...but mine are all vegetarian waste.
No, not always. These are coming up already. Vegetarian waste isn't as nutrient rich, but still good.
The "worm/lizard" is probably a skink.
Your crazy
actually, the worm-like creature is an amphibian.. It is a caecilian..
here is a video about it ua-cam.com/video/xK_s8v4S3B0/v-deo.html..
and i myself stumble upon this creature several times already in my life..
and you can consider yourself lucky sir, as this creature is very2 hard to find
hilarious
You sure that wasn't a baby snake?
I thought you were not supposed to meat products incompost?
That's the "common wisdom." It's rubbish, though. Meat is very high in sources of plant nutrition - it just needs to be composted differently. If you have a hot pile that doesn't have predator issues, you can throw it in there, too.