The Biggest Misconception About Composting
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2023
- In this excerpt from my conversation with Robert Pavlis Robert talks about composting, and how people tend to misinterpret the the brown/green rule and the 30:1 rule.
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Appreciate it when you break out shorter chunks from your longer interviews
Composting is more fun than gardening! Had no garden this year, because of reasons, but I’m still composting for next year .
I do a compost with a lot more green than brown, because I'm lazy and I have a lot more green than brown, but because I live in a war dry climate, a lot of the time the green turns brown on top.
I don't even stress about it, it'll sort itself out and it has been for years, it's a cold compost, because I can't be bothered doing hot composting. I literally fill the top up, and take it out of the bottom, there's always compost at the bottom.
One thing I'll say is I have to lay the compost and plant a couple of weeks after, seedlings don't love the new compost, but once it settles and they are acclimatised, I have fruit for days.
Lazy is the way, don't even stress, just chuck it in there and let nature do it's thing.
I have no clear cut percentages....I simply enjoy the process. We currently have a 4'x4'x4' bin of finished compost. Gathering leaf bags is a fun activity during the Fall. 300 bags gives us enough browns for the Fall and thev Spring!
Keeping the moisture right in the pile has been crucial in speeding up the process ime. I used to just sporadically dump water on my pile, but then when I got ducks I could pump their water onto it consistently. Probably cut the composting time by a factor of 4.
I am of the mind that almost everyone overcomplicates composting… I just add everything directly to the garden… in worm towers, trenched into the soil, or just tossed right on top under the heavy mulch (which is also mostly grass clippings or leaves). What I’m doing seems to be working so 🤷♀️
I have a worm tower, it's about a year old, it chews through the organics.
I think it's helping, but it's hard to tell, can't hurt right? I assume those organics are going somewhere.
I have good results with 60% grass clippings and 40% shredded leafs (& some kitchen waste) by volume. I also mix it before making the pile to save turning it later.
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Would seaweed work for compost ?
My grandfather used to use it as mulch
yes
Thanks for making this clip. I have very dry grass clippings. Are they now considered brown or green? Great guy...Robert Pavlis. Your thoughts much appreacited.
You have hay, which is already like the perfect compost material--especially given the extra surface area of the grass. Good takeaway from this video is that we don't have lab conditions so its hard to even properly identify/demarcate this stuff into browns or greens, but that composting is still easy. If you have enough grass clippings you can compost them by wetting the pile periodically, or you could mulch with them if you don't.
Thanks for the great info!Would it be better in fall to add ashes to compost or directly to garden beds?
do either if needed. ashes are alkaline
I am intrigued that as he declares “the whole idea of browns and greens is wrong”- RUclips cuts to SS advert, does this mean a human listens to podcast and figures out the climatic moment to interrupt?
No it's all done my an algorithm. It probably just looks for lengthy pauses
Good content. How important is the heating aspect to compost? Seems like some say you need it to kill weed seeds or pathogens??? That might make a difference how you compost.
yeah, to kill the seeds you need to get it up above 50C, but I'm happy to throw diseased stuff in my cold compost, the bugs will sort it out.
Cold compost for me is fine, it's easy, and you get a lot more microbial and fungal growth which I like. But both ways have their perks and both are far better than nothing, just pick the weeds as they come up if you want to do cold and try not to add seed heads to the mix, snap them off and chuck them away.