Does Lomi Make Compost?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- What does the Lomi composter produce? Compost? Lomi dirt? Soil? Fertilizer?
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Does Lomi Make Compost?
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Great video. I suspect that they are not confused, but intentionally unclear to avoid lawsuits while at the same time using terms that ordinary gardeners can relate to. Again, great video. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
It's the biggest bunch of hogwash I've heard in a long while!
I was being kind ;)
Ambiguity
So well call it a dehydrator and leave it at that.
.Love it when Robert Pavlis make a video. One of a very few garden oriented video makers I pay much heed to
I fully agree agree with your conclusion.. The Lomi essentially blends, heats and dehydrates kitchen waste, ready to be rehydrated and broken down by natural processes in your plant pots or garden. Their original promotional videos showed them putting biodegradable cutlery, bags and phone cases in the device. Thanks for posting this video.
I'll be discussing their "biodegradable plastic" in another video - more scam marketing.
The Epic Gardening video briefly mentioned at the beginning of the video does have a misleading title, but it does include discussion on this topic that is reasonable. I believe the term that was settled on was "pre-compost", which seems fairly accurate. Like any kitchen scraps you can indeed compost this stuff in order to obtain real compost, though you might want to mix it with something else so it doesn't go anaerobic.
I would never pay for the cost of this machine plus the energy it consumes for what it does. That said, I can imagine a few uses for the output. It does reduce bulk and improve storability if you need, for some reason, to store compostable material (there are a few reasonable situations for why you might want to do that). It could also be used to control moisture in a small outdoor "tumbler" composter. If the compost-in-progress in the tumbler is really wet, dry the material you're adding.
I lost a lot of respect for Kevin after he when to bat for these @$$holes.
@@racebiketuner I'll go along with that. But nevertheless, that particular episode--however much it may appear to be shilling--doesn't misrepresent the product as either necessary for composting or producing actual compost.
After reading the detailed info from LOMI site, I didn’t purchase it. I suspected it wasn’t making compost even on the long cycle. Thank you so much for confirming this.
Excellent video; thanks for sharing. I will continue to use my backyard compost bin and the small pile of composting material next to it. I take kitchen scraps to the pile during winter and cover them with snow. The lid on the bin is too hard to open in winter because moisture inside freezes and holds the lid like glue.
...so it's a dehydrator + grinder
Yup. Not some mystical, magical device that accelerates bacterial and/or fungal decomposition!
correct.
So informative and thorough- glad I didn't buy into the online hype.
Excellent video. Thank you so much,I watch your videos all the time. I just started propagating in my backyard and it’s been a lot of fun.
Thank you.
John from Connecticut
super clear. thnx. I wish I had watched this before purchasing one.
I loved this video--thanks!
I was hoping you would do this. I'm wondering if it would speed up the compost by having it broken down. It's still too much for me. Thank you so much.
Shredding exposes more surface area and allows microbes to attach themselves on the larger surface area which in turn does speed up the composting process providing there is enough microbial life to do so.
The machine itself DOES NOT COMPOST it dries and shreds thats all.
What it make is dehydrated food waste. You can buy a regular dehydrator and dry out kitchen waste, then put it in a blender. It would be a lot cheaper.
Great video!
I would call it pre-compost and for the first time I can actually see a use for this thing! I would even want one! 😄
If you live in a flat and do your composting elsewhere this would be great for making your foodscraps store without smell and be much lighter to transport.
Can't understand why they're being so "shady" about the outcome when they have actually solved a real problem.
Thank you!
(Changed my mind on wanting one when I saw the price...😂)
The Epic Gardening video that is being referenced at the beginning of this video is from three years ago. There is a more recent video from a week ago where Kevin has a one on one conversation with the CEO from Lomi. That is much more accurate of what this "composter" actually does and why you may want it or not. It's pretty clear that the end result is not compost, rather a ground up dehydrated product that can be added to a compost pile or a worm bin. So those of us that compost in a more traditional way have no need for this relatively expensive piece of equipment.
Many restaurants will give you food safe buckets for free. There are plenty of tutorials on how to use them for vermicomposting. It's quick, easy and only requires simple tools. If you're too lazy to collect the buckets and drill a few holes, send me $500 and I'll hook you up! ;-)
Thanks for all the information!
Thank you for your research
thank you for the video. do you think it coould be a good start for indoor city vermiculture?
thanks
Thank you, I love it when you disprove something. People are willing to say anything in order to make money. ❄️💚🙃
So true!
Snake oil 🐍 charlatans ✔️
Spot on!!
Great video as always.Its so satisfying to hear a scientific mind lucidly explaining common gardening problems. What I'd like to know is can you add dairy products to the compost pile? I know we are advised not to add meat etc for fear of rats but, pests aside, is milk and yoghurt ( and meat ) good for the compost heap? Surely these products contain wonderful nutrients.
You can compost all of those things. Too much may slow down the process. Meat and cheese may attract vermin - but it all composts.
It's the fats and oils that slow the composting process due to oxygen starvation, it will go anaerobic in latter stages of decomposition,then aerobic providing it is exposed to an oxygen environment.
What if you use it on bananas only then add it to the soil when your building your soil for next year, and let it sit for 3 or 4 months before planting?
Dehydrated organic tissue? It can be useful in gardening, like any once living material. Feeding soil organisms
But non-dehydrated organic tissue does the same thing.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 At far less the cost. Lomi is $649 on Amazon
Hi Robert,
Unrelated to the video here but I have a few questions about navigating watering and health of larger houseplants. They are mostly tropical plants in pots with NO drainage holes. Based on your other videos this is typically bad news. Do you have any resources that you know of that may help me in helping these plants thrive?
We have more than 25 species of plants with drastically different watering, light, and humidity needs. I am willing to put in a lot of work in regards to data tracking and monitoring, I mostly am curious about different methods on measure soil wetness as I can't gauge moisture by lifting the pots (many are large pots weighing in over 100 pounds), as I know moisture meters are unreliable at best. How much trouble do you reckon I am in? Avoiding root rot and overwatering seems to be my biggest problem.
Thanks so much for any input. Cheers,
Shane
Soil I would say is regolith with biological bits added which is why the regolith of the Moon and Mars is not soil but the one of Earth is although maybe that found under the ice of Greenland and Antarctica might be pure regolith although even there I suspect a tiny bit of biological content?
What a load of shit. Their bullshit dept can't even write a good enough PR blurb. They must really hate you and your chanell, but I loves it!!! Damn good watch. Thank you for posting, sorry this isn't getting enough exposure.
Shit loaded with aminopyralid! 😉
Why lomi when you can worm bin it! 👍🏻
I think the marketing and perception of the product is misleading. Functionally, it's a good unit that creates "pre-compost". You don't grow your plants directly in it, in the same way you wouldn't grow directly in kitchen scraps. The "pre-compost" should be added to a proper compost pile or embedded deep into a garden to break down. In the winter, it's especially helpful as it can be added to the compost pile without immediately freezing. I'm getting a distinct impression that the narrative here is to disparage Lomi. Maybe they deserve it for the nonsense answers they're providing. However, the product itself is fine for what it actually does.... "Pre-composting".
Kevin from EpicGardening also released a newer video where he discusses the Lomi and clarifies the differences between composting and "pre-composting". It's worth a watch if anyone is still unsure.
It cooks and minces your garbage. Compost ferments Lomita dosent
The snakeoil industry is stronger then ever... more information = more confusion?
So they sell kitchen scraps dehydrators. Who needs a kitchen scraps dehydrator? Snake oil, fools and their money :)
Save your time. No.
Thank you Robert. I assumed the doublespeak used by Lomi and others was nonsense. Perhaps the only benefit from drying or dehydrating the kitchen scraps is reducing the volume of waste going to the landfill? That being said, at what cost? Running the machine for 20 hours uses a fair amount of hydro.
The reduced volume is due to a loss of water. The carbon amount has not changed, so the end product is just as detrimental to global warming as sending the original kitchen waste to landfill. That is another big myth they promote.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Sounds like a great subject for a garden myth video.