HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN COMPOST (This Took only TWO MONTHS!)
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Do you need to make compost? Do you need to know how to make LOTS of compost? Here's our method - we grow cover crops and turn them into compost! Some of the roots stay in the ground, making compost beneath the soil. The tops we can cut and mound into compost piles, building humus for the gardens.
This cover crop includes mung beans, sorghum-sudan grass, black-eyed peas and sunn hemp. It fixes nitrogen and gives us lots of carbon. Cover cropping can fix bad soil, and can be grazed by animals to build topsoil fast - or you can till it under and garden the area. Making fast compost doesn't even need a pile. All you need is a handful of seeds to plant a cover crop!
Forgive the weird lens - we had an issue with the aperture and recorded two videos before fixing it! Too late now, so enjoy the awesome vintage blur.
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I like the vintage look.
lol, God bless
I really like the effect of the lens, a little ethereal. To be certain, I looked up what ethereal meant on Lexico:
"1) Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world." (Example: "Heavenly or spiritual.")
"2) having diethyl ether as a solvent."
So I'm pretty sure I was aiming at the first meaning... Anyway, thanks for the two great videos, David!
Thought maybe you were recording at night, dark and blurry
Looked like the longest and most detailed flashback
HA- I'm on the right track. I saw this a year ago, bought the seeds, and stuck them aside. Yesterday, I was looking for something else and found the bag..YESSSS! I am cleaning out my beds and I'm exhausted from battling bugs and slugs. So, today, I planted 3 beds of peas, sunn hemp and dwarf sunflowers. Shooo! Let her go, feed my beds and give myself a rest! Thanks, David.
Yeah like trap crop.
David the Good Restoring the worlds soil one rental property at a time!!
Compost everything. I really like that idea. We need to compost some congressmen 🤣
and the commies lol
😂
@@milo-qh7cvor you
Word, how bout anyone who don’t care for the earth, let’s turn em right into soil and grow our food out of em. They’ll be so much more useful that way
Sun Hemp is an excellent cover crop on its own, and you can walk on it to knock it down. I started with a machete, but in my haste to cut them down, I started stepping on them and realized they were breaking off nicely, so I just walked them down to use as compost. Sun Hemp and cowpeas are my go-to summer cover crop. I really appreciate the Florida garden advice. Thank you
Good tip - thank you!
Yep. Early August 2023 here in North Central Florida and our Sun Hemp and Cowpeas are growing like crazy.
Glad to see you. Praying life is thornless blackberries for you and the family.
I grew a cover crop and then did a chop and drop in a container and it produced incredible results. I am sold on this!
"That's a lot of life."
Let's kill it for compost... (evil laugh)
I like your style, bro. No need for complicated methods.
I've done something similar with Matt Powers' 5 cousins, which are all edible: Sorghum, amaranth, daikon, buckwheat and cowpeas.
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I have a few amaranth in there, too! That is a great cover crop mix, Joel. Buckwheat has done poorly for me here, but the others rock, when planted in the right season.
Amaranth is a "weed" where I live. My chickens eat the seedlings, so I don't get any in my back yard anymore. But I can fill bags from the stands of amaranth in every alleyway
Amaranth is delicious mixed with spinach!
@@GrowingGoodHair And basil! I use it to make a pesto 😋👍
My cover crop this summer was clump grass 🤣🤣🤣. I couldn’t get out for about a week during that heatwave and then the rain started🙄. It was 4 ft. tall in 2 weeks. But, on the bright side, it saved my sweet potatoes and Seminole pumpkin vines from the scorching 🥵 sun and they are finally recovering. It was so hot that my purple hull and white acres even died(my cover crop)! I’m praying 🙏 that my winter crops will do better. Thanks for the encouragement.
It’s all fun and games until your pulling cowpeas out of your pear tree. This topic is great and could make a whole series
You need to learn how to use a cover crop to kill a cover crop
String trimmers work pretty good these days. Looks like the deer are managing my cow peas this year...not sure if I will even get seed off of them for next year.
@@matthewtaylor2185 I use a Greenworks battery-powered lawn mower. The box says only mow grass. But I mow clover, weeds, grass, little trees and it is still going strong two years on. It chops it just right for layering in raised beds or lasagna gardens or adding to the compost pile.
@@Growmap I have never cut them that short. I have only used them on deep wood chips. I don't know what it is about shading the ground, but all those long stringy stems do the trick over winter. Next season, you'll have wood chips ready to plant in. Me and my kids pick off all the seed pods.
I just use the weed whacker to keep them from getting out of control.
We're calling "do over" on one of our growing beds, it's about 30x30.
Most likely going to cover crop it for a whole year, then probably put in a two- or three-terrace grocery row garden.
Thanks for the information and inspiration.
Terraced grocery row garden?
Thanks! Always good advice, great music!
Oh, I am cover cropping now with rye grass and clover. Compost is the gateway drug to covercropping. Great subject that isn't put out there very much. Thanks for getting the info out there (and being entertaining too)
Awesome! Last week I picked up 2 bags of peas, forage oats, hay wire, Cover Crop / Grazing mix. 2020 left over stock. I asked about germination rate, the manager offered them at 50% discount! I estimate 80% to 85% germination, at 1/2 price!
I love it when you get excited. Good to see this success. I don't want to deflect from your books, but your suggestions remind me that John Jeavons claims 60% of the garden should be carbonaceous materials for sustainability in this manner. What is not eaten is for compost. Good job, David
We all learn from each other. I agree with Jeavons on this one.
Thanks David for all the gardening help here in Florida. I live in central Florida and like most of Florida I have sand, sand and more sand. Along with your cover crop information I also started using Biochar at the same time. I am blessed with lots of water oaks so I get lots of wood for Biochar and tons of leaves for Leave mold compost for my garden. Leaf mold compost, Biochar and cover crops have made a huge difference in my sandy soil. Thanks to you and your Florida growing information My sand now looks more like soil than sand.
Many Thanks for your efforts.
I planted a mix of beans, just a few bags from the store (Northern bean, Pinto bean, Black eye peas, and another type of bean) mixed them together and tossed them by hand ol DTG Style!!💪🏻💯 that was last Wednesday (Aug 17) and they are about ankle hight, I was thinking about knee high and then chop and drop, apply some garden soil and compost on top of that then mound up/row up my fall seeds!!! Thanks David!
Another great idea 💡
Thanks 👍
@@mrf5347 you’re welcome! Of course it’s been around since we planted the first seeds but when you think about it or hear about it it’s like “ OMG! Why has no one thought of this!!” 🤣🤣🤣🤷🏼♂️ imagine how much has been lost through time though glad I could inspire
@@mrf5347 also the bean are fairly cheap still in stores, just go to where they sell beans, taco seasoning etc and just throw a bunch of bags in the cart, like David said it is gonna get cooler soon so Lentils would be a good choice to throw in the mix as well.
I just planted sorghum sudangrass for the first time to do exactly this. After only a month, I’m in biomass heaven!😂
Great wailin geetar on the outro track!
Always entertaining and filled with amazing knowledge. I really like this guy. 😎👏 His style is so comforting. I am just grateful that there are still people like this that is willing to share their good vibes and knowledge.🌴🌻 We need people like this for future survival. ✊🙏
I really appreciate the update video!
Great to see you! Cover crop’s already in.
I'm putting about one thrid of my garden on cover crop this fall and next spring. The garden needs a rest and so do I!
Gardens dont need rest, they need life, ita a big misconception that soil needs "rest". Check out elaine ingham the soil food web.
@@mirsidorov5112 a fellow man of culture i see
@@mirsidorov5112 According to the Bible ( KJV) it says to let your land rest every 7th year.
@@freddyb9290 there are a lot of things that aren't scientific in there my dude
@@freddyb9290 do forests rest? Amazon rainforests?
This is my first year growing a cover crop and I am kicking myself for not having done this sooner! We have extremely sandy soil (it's mostly sand), and I am adding biomass - CHEAPLY - by growing cover crops.
So amazing what partnering with Nature can do !! You inspire me!
This spring we had a dense cover of dead nettle and chickweed covering our garden. I was so pleased! We tilled it in and I'm sure it will help the soil.
I did this immediately after that video you posted so I guess its been a couple months for me too. I used mostly beans out of my food storage that needed to be rotated out. I was surprised how it took in some areas . Some areas I was also surprised how it didn't take and think i probably need to get a soil analysis done. I think I'm getting salt in the yard from snow getting pushed into my yard in the winter.
That might be. I used to have a tree that would turn yellow because it was near our lime-rock road. Too alkaline!
I planted out some old beans from our food storage this spring too. I mixed them in the area of my garden where I also planted squash. Sporadic sprouting, but something is better than nothing.
I've been thinking about using some wheat and lentils that are getting a little elderly. We eat these things constantly, but I've got 3 lbs of wheat and 2 lbs of lentils left from 2020. Newer stuff tastes better, so this might be a good way to put it to use without waste. I'm in zone 5b, would you wait for spring or do it now?
Ha ha I love the vintage blur. Great info, thanks!
Here in the UK, I plant fava beans in any unoccupied soil in mid October every year, then cut it off at ground level in April. The ground is then used for onions, maincrop potatoes, peas,etc (I practice nodig/no till gardening)..
All the cut material goes for compost.
Good work!
I did the same thing in one of my raised beds. Planted Sunn Hemp and two months later chopped it down and have been letting it decompose in the bed. When my brassica transplants are ready I will put them in that bed.
Good to see you again!
That’s cool…. I would chop and drop it, and then tarp over it. -6-8 weeks later you have a perfect fertile weed free garden, with more organic matter and biology than before,,,
That is another great method.
Micro-plastics from tarp “ perfect”
Well I'm pumped to say the least. Used strictly swamp water this year and experienced a bountiful crop of tomatoes.🤛👍😃
This Video Brought me Joy
Great video dude, love the vibe, the music, the knowledge and the passion!
Love your content, David. Your music is pretty legit as well.
I am pulling weeds up (roots too) and making compost instead of throwing away. Working great and it's FREE
I've been burying my weeds in Sandy patch, 4" layers alternating with 2" of sand. Going to burn more bio-char when it rains this fall and top off with compost for a new corn patch in the spring.
Thanks to all of you and David the good, I've learned so much!
Oh "David the Good " I'm worried about the driver of my car, so I will keep a smile on my face. You and your family are a blessing to me.
What a nice idea. Thanks.
Blessings to y’all from Florida 🌴🐢🌺🐊🐠🪸🌊⚡️🌀🚀😎
I am doing this right now in the grocery row garden. Cut it when it was way shorter though cause it was shading my other plants too much
I'm new, I wonder if they'd survive if I regularly mowed high. I have a lot of erosion and want to buld soil.
Yes, both the sudan-sorghum and sunn hemp can be cut repeatedly.
@@part-timeprep5932 you can probably even mow them short, as long as you give them enough time to bounce back
I'm so happy to be one of your subscribers. I'm a long time fan. You share tips and tricks that are practical and actually work! We have been using your methods for the past few years and have great success even here in Arizona Growing zone 9B. CHEERS!
Growing the cover crop is only half the battle. The most important step is how do you incorporate that biomass into the soil profile. The best way is to do it’s called heat composting. Basically, you roll the crop over on its side with a big roller that has some sharp edges on it. The sharp edges book crimp the vascular bundles in allowed to drive to decompose over the winter. You leave the heat compost on the soil surface and plant through it this means, you separate the biomass or make a small pathway and plant the seed directly into the untilled soil. If you rototill the biomass back into the soil you will have caused a major disruption in the soil microflora. organic matter is never tilled into the soil as that is an artificial measure.
I have thought about a crimper.
I remember watching the video where you planted this! 😳😊
David, my daughters are buying me some sun hemp seed and a machete for my birthday. I am going to plant some sun hemp and chop and drop the hemp to feed everything. I just wish I had a small battery operated shredder to hep me , I have a bad back, anything to help me would be great. Seed will be going in the ground 10x 20 feet area at the back fence. Looking forward to the next few weeks.
I would like this twice if I could. Thanks for posting a video from the 1970's btw. lol
Hello David 👋. Good to see you
What a pleasure it is to hear your awesome songs. Ridiculous 😎 👍
You forgot one of the main things you can do. Chop it, let it air dry, then turn it into biochar. Two of the best things for soil, compost and biochar both you grew for yourself. That is a ton of mass produced for biochar fast, no need to go harvest brush or get scraps from anywhere. That is easy manageable plant material unlike wood and branches and brush. And the bonus is this was all nitrogen fixing!
You sure can!
You have to make sure you change up your bio char with microbes. Otherwise you will be disappointed.
@@micklee7018 Biochar does a lot beyond being biological media. It has a good water holding capacity, loosens soil, holds fertilizer/nutrients, I believe donates carbon to the plant. Likely more also like adjusting charge of nutrients to make them more available and improve gas exchange and other stuff. It is probably one of the if not the most important soil amendment there is after fertilizer.
@watersproutsofthedeep how do you make biochar from the chopped dried cover crop?
That looks great! I'm having great luck with pigeon peas. They've gotten taller than I am...uhhh...ok, that's not exactly any great accomplishment, BUT, they're making a nice looking hedge, growing great in crappy rock hard red clay, and they're even starting to flower.
I planted some in various plots, definitely need the input of manure, want to use as chicken pasture, but I need poop to make the pasture!
Great technique. We just put our new home at out homestead. It is at the top of a little slope. We made some swales to control erosion of our sandy dirt. Then we planted sweet potatoes at the berm. I will try some legumes too. So far I'm very pleased with the cover crop and looking forward to the sweet potatoes!
You had me at the intro song... LOVED IT!
Growing comfy and pigeon pea trees to use as fertilizer. Thank you for this video! PS when are you going to do another garden retreat?
Exactly what I needed to see. My ground is lacking organic material
I just started my sun hemp cover crop 4 days ago. It's amazing how fast this stuff grows. The materials to get another Johnson Su composter are waiting. If I have enough sun hemp left after covering the beds. By the looks of your results I think I'll have enough for both.
You rock God bless y’all
FANTASTIC IDEA!!! Thank you
One of the best videos!! Great idea! When should winter rye mix be sown When should rye oats mix be sown generally in the 6b area? TY!
Love the music in the end
Also killing all the weeds. We started a 50x50 garden plot this year on a piece of land that has never been used very sandy dead compacted soil, and had a very busy summer growing weeds hahaha but still got a good amount of food out of the deal but compared to my urban market garden it is way less productive. In particular bindweed was our nemesis so next year we are going to cover crop the whole thing including a new area we are going to start and this is our plan to solve our weed soil, and like David mentioned all the fertility will come with this biomass.
I like using buckwheat. The stems are full of water then I inter seed brassicas into it and roll over the buckwheat and the brassicas grow under the mulch and buckwheat breaks down fast. More tillage radish than the rest of the radishes because the tillage radish digs deep and tills the ground for me. I tried pretty much the same seed u used but it didn't break down as fast. Another great video
I like your short videos
Question from the ultra lazy: I've got tons of winter wheat and clover seed. Kinda tempted to just broadcast it all over the unturned ground in the part of the yard I'm not using and see if any grows. The soil is hard but there's a fairly thick layer of old leaf mass on top. Do you think anything would take root? Maybe even next year?
I'm not sure but I'd like to know David's answer to this
I would just give it a try, raking away some of the leaves, throw the seeds, rake the leaves back over.
Why not?
It's possible... seeds love to germinate in leaf mould
Yes alot will
I broadcast winter rye by mowing real short, run my dethatcher over the area, broadcast the seeds and drag the dethatcher over the area again. I get good results.
Loved the book! Absolutely has inspired me to think outside the box. We got ducks this season and by luck put them by our fruit trees that have been struggling so hoping we see similar results that you saw with your mulberry tree! Great advice in your video! We are trying similar approaches due to not having enough compost for our market garden and buying certified organic compost is ridiculously expensive. Take care!
Thank you - glad you're here.
Great tips, and great book and tee-shirt too. :) Thanks DTG!
That's going to be a great Scythe training area for your kids...
Wow, this is awesome, question though, does it matter whether I incorporate the sunn hemp in the soil before or after full flowering season for maximum nitrogen availability or simply "chop it" as you mentioned, and leave the root nodulation process to do what it does or leave the plants to decompose and let nature do the rest? So many options I don't want to disturb the soil by any means. Thanks.
do you have any tips for coping with hot and muggy weather? Living in the south, I struggle with this, I become forgetful, and unmotivated. even though deep down I want to play an active role in my garden during the summer, I have trouble going outside in the summer months.
Awesome David, I've actually been thinking about this too. What if you went through with a brush hog at one month and cut it to 10" then repeat at month two and again at month 3...now you have 2/3rds brown and 1/3 green...rake it into 4' piles, add water and/or swamp water and easy compost with major results in place....What do you think? I think Sunhemp will continue growing at 10" cut.
I think it's a great idea. I just no longer have a brush hog. You could cut repeatedly!
Bright idea!
Thanks
It doesn't work like that. For the browns, the vegetation needs to die naturally. When you cut it, the nutrients get locked into what you cut, even though it turns brown, it still a green because of the nitrogen locked in. When it dies naturally, the nutrients go down to the roots and all that's left is the carbon, the browns.
Our rabbits love Sunn hemp.
Comfrey is another excellent source you can grow it it can be turned into compost and I believe fertilizer im new to all this comfrey helps your soil as well tremendous healing power in this plant even been known 2 heal bones
Much Love ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
I grow compost (soil) every year.
The best part: I don't have to work to grow veggies.
I grow soil and let the soil grow my veggies.
What most people call weeds I call, beneficial herbs and living soil.
I have my garden beds, Intentionally planted living soil/compost beds, and my wild herb compost/lawn.
My lawn grows Yarrow, Dandelion, burdock, lambsquarters, pigweed, horsetail, thistles, on and on.
I am planning to plant sunn hemp sudangrass and other high yield crops next year to boost my compost.
So far I have around 8 inches of compost on some of my garden beds and working to get them all built up the same and more.
That music is dope.
We have sun hemp, sun flowers, vetch, dikon radish, cow pea, lab lab. Big difference growing cover crop next to fruit trees.
Ss@sorry to bother you, but would you recommend Vetch as a ground cover? Where did you get it? Thanks in advance 💖
@@mariap.894 hi. I would say any legumes make a great groundcover. They make nice flowers for bees . Our vetch is just starting off. Has a ferny type leaf. I'm from Australia queensland. Got it from my partners work at a rural shop. He's into regeneration. Helps farmers with soil improvement. Using different seed mixes. So he likes to try them out on our 2 acre block. Legumes are so versatile, they grow, flower, seed and die off. Then they grow back. I'm looking forward to seeing the vetch flower. I did ask my partner how big does vetch grow he said just under metre like shrubby.
@@ss-kz9ee oh wow! Thanks so much fir for such detailed explanation. I knew it was about soil regeneration, that's why I was particularly interested in knowing more. I'd love to use it to replace my grass. I hate the care and water consumption it requires. Blessings your way and lots of luck in all you do🪴😊👍💜💕
Could be a Great cover crop for winter, chop it down and let the worms eat it.
What song did you use in this video?
"Sugar Pie" It's his own song. ruclips.net/video/_ndLRnSXV9o/видео.html
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Compost good!
the problem is in so california we haven't gotten rain this summer not enough to keep bugs alive. my meringa tree didnt grow over a foot and i water them ...i guess i'll go back to the feed store and buy straw again cheapest compost i can find
Cover cropping is where it's at!
Although it's not a nitrogen fixer it would fit right into the mix of these other tall quick growing plants that can be crowded, Chia seeds are super cheap and sprout with no effort other than sprinkling them on the ground.
Lots of information
David. I am growing black eyed peas here in Deltona Florida. When should I cut it down to compost it for making my own biomass? Today is July 18 2023.
I grew the sorghum sudangrass this year, the stalks are going to be brutal getting out of the bed.
They aren't too hard to pull in sand.
I use to grow a Lucerne crop in my garden bed.
It puts back nitrogen and fibre into the ground.
New gardener so forgive my silly question but if I were to sow this mix in a couple of (1 year old) raised beds over the summer months in Zone 10a FL can I just put most of the cuttings into a compost tumbler and use it next season as compost in the beds? Would I need brown material and kitchen scraps too or would the sunn hemp mix compost by itself? How can I be sure the sunn hemp mix doesn’t just keep growing and possibly crowd out any new plants/seeds that I want to grow in the Fall? Appreciate any help. Thanks
Got halfway through your intro song and thought “that’s a ‘subscribe’ for me dawg”
Welcome.
Just got the book! Chapter 10, Grow Your Own Compost, page 103.
Thank you, Mac!
hey David, great content. what mix would recommend for middle Tennessee? thank you sir
Depends on the time of year
@@davidthegood sorry, i meant for over winter
Lol I've just realised in a UK council estate house wi garden I've got 8 compost piles/bins.i haven't used waste bins in years n only 28
Dave ✌️
I watched one of you videos earlier in the spring and said f*** it, been composting every f****** thing all summer!
I was opining that I wished D2tG had books that weren’t only through Amazon, and I noticed that he had a link, which I followed, to find Jack Broccoli thriller novels... how did I NOT know I needed these? 😆
And then the link disappeared! What?!
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Hey David! Love ur videos! I wondered what you thought about having a garden plot near a underground run off of a “drain field” that we have on our property- it filters our waste water (anything from our drains/toilet-sink-shower ect)? Would this be safe and or okay to do? And could it maybe help the garden with nutrients? Thanx in advance 😊
I wouldn't worry about it. But I also wouldn't pour any nasty chemicals down the drain.
@@davidthegood thanx again I really appreciate it 🤗
Hello, I'm French and I have a question for you (so you sowed your green manure at the beginning of July? are these plants resistant to the frost?). Can we imagine that : sowing it in October, chopping it in March and covering it with a dark tarp to let earthworms and insects break it down until May? thanks
Sudan Sorghum isn't frost resistant at all. It loves the heat. Not sure about the other things he planted though
Just plant a mixture of warm season and cool season plants.
The death of one provides nutrition, canopy opening and soil space for the other plant species that favors the approaching season.
In Texas, we normally plant "winter" wheat in late summer. It grows slowly in autumn and goes dormant (but alive) in Jan/Feb.
Once daylight increases and warmth returns the growth is very fast. Harvest is mid-late June. Probably a similar sequence in France, yes?
*BUT* if I sow some sorghum or sunflower (warm season plants) with the wheat, then they too will grow in late summer/autumn. However they die back from cold and lowlight.
That's fine! The plants will have metabolized nutrients like N, P or K into plant tissue. Then soil biota will slowly decompose the roots, etc over the winter and convert those elements into "bio- available" forms (i.e. Ammonia vs Nitrate).
Also, the root paths of the now dead sunflower or sorghum provide rich "veins" for the "winter" species to exploit.
Then there is the WHOLE issue of C3 vs C4 grasses....but that's another discussion.
Good luck
So if I sow sun hemp in a raised bed that I don’t plan to use again until Fall all I’ll have to do is chop & drop it it down to soil level let it sit on top of the raised bed as mulch? Then how long should I let it sit and decay before planting in that bed again in Fall? I’m guessing it should sit like mulch and not be turned or tilled into the soil, right? How do you guarantee the sun hemp won’t just regrow? Newbie questions, forgive me but thanks.
I wonder if it would grow as fast exposed to free-range chickens. I want to do this just outside my yard. I have a water logged area, but is open to chickens from the community
Is sorghum Sudan grass something I could grow on the edges of my beds for chop and drop? Will it keep coming back or would I have to replant? How would borage be? I'm a little confused at what to use and how to grow it.
I actually googled what "Sunn Hemp" was.