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You and MIgarderner use mostly green stuff which debunks the ubiquitous 60/40 recommendation. And the height of your pile anti nothing to wright wright home about. Both you and MI Garderner report excellent results . I'm gravitating to wards your method with the little experience I have experience . A low pile does heat up
I’m so glad I found your site. I love your content it’s so inspiring. I’m gonna start my own gardening thanks to you. I live in the Imperial Valley and if you didn’t know it gets super hot here but thanks to your advice I will make it work, thanks again . Look forward to seeing all of your expertise.
Hi CaliKim, After watching your video, I decided to make my own using approx 6 bags of grass clippings, water melon and cantaloupe skins with egg shells and few sticks. I cannot believe that after 6 bags of grass clippings, I was able to get about one bag of compost. It was fun but a lot of work. On a different note, one of my friends gave me a trailer of horse manure. I am so grateful to him especially when I see the earthworm in the manure. Anyway thanks for the video.
I just wanted to Thank you CaliKim29 for making easy for me to understand how my garden works. I have been doing community gardens since 2010, but 2016 will be my 1st attempt at year round gardening. BTW 1st time making compost, your way really works!
Just cut and thatched my lawn and had the idea to start a pile. I have to say I absolutely enjoyed this video and really appreciated your presentation here. Great information and your presence is so fun and enjoyable! Thank you!
Hi Kim, just wanted to say thanks for your great videos. It is almost spring here in New Zealand and I can't wait to put what I have learnt into action. Just a quick tip for those wanting to build a hot compost pile with a large amount (several cubic metres) of garden waste. Build the compost pile around several stakes which have been wrapped in chicken wire. This provides the aeration necessary for a compost pile that is too large to turn over and helps with the smell and rate of decomposition.
I've been considering having a small grassed area only for the cuttings - we currently don't have any grass at all but I've noticed the difference it makes to my heap when I use the cuttings from the grass the council cuts near our house. Great video, thank you.
I've been scared to jump into composting because all the complicated talk of percent "browns" and "greens" sort of scares me, but as start on year two of vegetable gardening, I really don't want to have to keep buying compost if I don't have to. This video gave me the courage to get started because I have about .5 acres of grass and enough "browns" (I hope) to mix in with them throughout the year. Thank you! ...and wish me luck!
This makes perfect sense. The sweetest onions I've ever had were given to me by a dairy farmer, who would collect the cow manure from the milking floor, let it stand & dry for an entire year, then would plant the veggies (not just onion) directly into the "dried-for-a-year" cow manure. Your comment about how cows break down the grass they've eaten... Well, the farmer's choice of growing "soil" makes perfect sense after seeing this. Thanks for sharing.
Carl Schnackel A very smart farmer, and I bet those onions are fantastic! I'd love to have access to that rich manure! Do you have a compost pile? Thx for watching,Carl!
OneYardRevolution but you do collect a lot of leaves in the fall, which also work wonderfully. I did find that the grass clipping compost heated up quicker, though. Hopefully your neighbors will part with some grass clippings for you! Thx for stopping by, Patrick!
@@FavDogBisquit Because you don't want chemicals (like pesticides) in your compost. It would be harmful to whatever you are trying to grow with that compost.
I've been gardening for 40 years since I was 10 years old. I've never had to do crazy stuff like this I just take a pitchfork turn over the soil and put the seeds in in and it grows
that is a great compost pile. I build my compost pile a lot bigger but I have a pretty big garden, but I use my food scraps ,grass clipping, horse manure, and wood chips. I keep an eye out for the temp to peek and then pour a cheap beer in the center it speeds up the production and draws the worms to it. great video and keep growing
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Turning compost is hard work, especially for an older man with two back surgeries. My compost pile is a 4 ft. diameter, 4 ft. high circle of 2"x1" fencing. After 2 turnings, I knew I wouldn't make it through the season, so... for the third season I rigged an aerator. I had an old extension cord reel and a tire tube from my riding mower front tire. The tube had a small leak and i'd been meaning to patch it. I put the tube over the extension reel to keep it from being crushed by the weight of the compost and ran an air hose out the bottom of the pile. Every day when I passed by, I would pump up the tube and let the air slowly leak out into the hottest spot of the compost pile. When the days stayed in the upper 90's, I just carried out my battery jump starter (most have an electric air pump) and filled the tire tube. I mow a bit over 1 acre of lawn, and kept the pile topped off, including kitchen scraps for the whole season. I never turned it again! This year my 800 sq.ft. garden used only a third of that mulch. I'm now building an 8'x8'x1' raised bed for sweet potato's with the rest (and some top soil). Last year I just threw 5 plants in uncultivated clay/sandy soil and harvested about 15 lbs of potato's. Imagine the return I'll get from this 30 plant bed full of compost!
Very nicely done! i dig a compost pit and fill it with my leaves during fall, with wood chips, some bagged grass clipping from mowing, blood meal, bunny poop, and sprinkle in kelp meal among the layers. i placed 2 PVC pipes and drilled holes in them for aeration. my plants love this recipe. I have 200+ tomatoes on just one of my plants this year. This is really the basis for the best veg garden hands down in my opinion! start packin' your freezer, and happy gardening!
Wow, did you say 200 tomatoes? What do you do with all of them? That's amazing - sounds like you have it dialed in! Composting is so much fun! Thanks for watching!
The type i grow are of the Juliet variety, so far ive made salsa and just been eating them, but i am soon to be overwhelmed as the vast majority are still green on the vine! I love compost, here in my city they make us bag our leaves for pickup in the fall, i would much rather rake them on a tarp and drop em in a hole and reap the rewards in the spring lol. happy gardening!
Great video on composting. I use almost exactly the same method. Some added suggestions: 1. Use your lawn mower to mulch the small twigs into finer shreds. It'll increase the contact surface area and increase decomposition. 2. Go to Starbucks for a pail of their coffee grinds. Mix into the pile and wet down. Ensure they are covered with other organics. Acts like nitro in an engine. 3. Once finished cooking in a few days, go the garden and round up some earth worms. Add to pile and wait for baby worms, sure sign of thriving digestion. Ensure worms go in after pile is cool or you'll cook them too. Once complete, you have some of the richest compost around. This is also a great way to start the pile after winter and really accelerates the process. Keep up the good work!
I enjoy watching people be independent on a small or large scale. My wife n I have built a aquaponic system for about $200 or less. The money we spent was on braces, nails n a 650 gallon horse trough. We drove around running errandsbut looking for wood and when we found it took it since it was being thrown away. We built a chicken coupe from free wood. It is heavy but looks normal. We bought tilapia fingerlings online and put them in the horse trough. We feed the hens a balanced diet and their eggs feed us and the fish. The fish feed us and the hens. The fish water n chicken poop feeds the fruit trees and garden. We bought a tumbler from online like offer up for $20 and it hold a lot plus it tumbles for great results. I also built a box like yours but around 12 ft long. I just empty bag after bag of clippings until its high and full then just leave it. When a year passes by the underlying grass turns to dirt without touching it. To show you how well this cheap but efficient set up works...we bought a blackberry bush that should take 3-4 years before it yields fruit but the same year we planted it the flowers started blooming and bees were buzzing. By this time last year we saw around 300 big, plump, juicy, sweet berries that taste like candy. Our carrots tasted like candy. Everything taste 100x better. This year we have around 600 berries and next years has grown 2 thicker branches not just one and we should see 1200+ off of one berry bush 3 years old. So far we harvest yearly but not enough to survive on yet. The goal is to grow enough to harvest 3/4 of the year and winter store and preserve. Once we set the example involve the community on a small scale then grow. Those in apt condos ect...can help home owners or the community garden and we all barter to gain free organic healthy food. It is work but it's very very rewarding and liberating. Just thought I would tell my story so maybe you pick up some ideas maybe. I enjoy learning as well as teaching. Lifes a garden dig it
- Great form -- I noticed you, using your legs to do the heavier lifting. - Love the rebar idea for checking the temperature of the pile. Thanks for sharing.
Yes I do, Kim. I am presently using an Earth Machines composter that I picked up for $20 during a local initiative several years ago. (It has vent holes in the side which will allow me to stick a "temperature probe" into the pile. :-) ) I use mine a bit differently than the designers intended, as I tend to fill it to the point that stirring the contents becomes an exercise in frustration. I have taken to simply picking it up, off the pile, and moving it over. When there's a fair amount of usable compost in the newly exposed pile, I'll sift it (using a sieve I made from 1x2's and hardware cloth) into a wheelbarrow; the remainder gets put back into the composter, effectively turning over the pile in so doing. Effectively, it's really not much different from what you're doing with a tarp and second container. It works well -- when I keep up with it. :-| As for my watching, you're welcome, but it's my pleasure, really. I appreciate your having taken the time to share your tips and experiences. We cal all learn from one another -- but mostly when people such as you do take that time and go through the trouble to share what you know!
Tami Smith thanks , Tami. I actually got that idea from a viewer. I learn so much from what is shared on the comments! Thx for watching - really do appreciate it!
Hy, Kim ! Thank You for Writing to me ! Yes , I am the one with the Green Fingers , let alone the Green Thumb , as they say ! We only have a small Place and Small Garden but it does its Job , depending on the Mood I am in ,in growing Stuff ! Cheers to You , from Klaus or Klausie but not Klause ,lol ! I was born in Germany and I often get called Klausi or Klausie and spelled that way . The thing is , in the English Language all the words and Letters are said differently than in the German Language , even like " die " which sounds like dee in English and so on ! Chiao , " California Kim ". I Love the song " California Blue " . Especially the Guitar Instrumental Version by Ricky King , German Guitarist ! C Yahh !! 😀🎶🍷💐
+Klaus Vokiee Hello Kalusie - so great to hear from you in Germany! I pulled up that version of the song just now to listen to it, beautiful! Thanks for sharing it with me and please keep me posted on the progress of your garden! I'd love to see some pictures - you can post some on my FB page ( on.fb.me/1JXq7vl) or tag me on Instagram (instagram.com/calikim29)! Thanks so much for watching!
Amritanshu Bhardwaj So glad to hear this! It is fun to see all that waste that you would just throw away turn into wonderful nutrients for your garden! Thx for the feedback!
I got a book on composting from Rodell Press. In it when using grass clippings to get compost in 14 days you should use equal volumes of grass and tree leaves (not pine needles) . Build it like in this video but to speed things up you remove your bin, chop through it with a mattock then fork it into another bin every other day dampening as needed. 14 days later great compost. I did it. It works.
Hi, Philip! Thanks for the great tips! Composting is such a great way to add beneficial nutrients to your garden- sounds like you have a good process going! Thanks for watching and happy gardening!
Uncle had a large turn barrel set up,like a hand turned cement mixer,but plastic made, specifically,you added your materials and gave it a turn or two while you're there.
I always use grass clippings. I mow n bag n dump n add my food scraps in the pile and have two piles I run in rows along the outside edges of my garden on the ends. I add leaves, etc as the season goes on and then when things are ready just drag it over or around the garden from the edges. It's black gold. :) If I have any left over amendments like blood meal etc I scatter that in too n it does great. Water it down n let it rain on it, I don't cover it just let it go. :)
I know this video is almost a year old, but I thought I should inform you the reason the grass compost smells is because the grass heats and ferments and creates a smell. If you ever heard of "silage" that's kinda what it is, however as you can tell it works wonders for the garden. :)
Well heck, I didn’t know that the grass clippings and leafy materials were dry! I keep putting fresh grass clippings and fresh flower and others into my purchased drum! Good video, thanks...
I think you would love the work of Elaine Ingham. You work from a carbon to nitrogen (brown to green) ratio of 30 to 1. Its all about making airobic compost and you measure the compost pile temps in the middle and when it heats up you turn the pile to prevent it going anerobic, adding air back into the pile and reducing temps. If it goes anerobic it grows bad bacteria/fungi and smell bad, as you say here. Your looking to make a fungal dominant/rich airobic compost for most veg/fruit that is brown (not black). If your getting bad smells from your compost pile thats anerobic bacteria and you need to turn it. If your going to use that, use it on your brassicas (cabbages, kale etc) as they prefer a bacteria dominated compost and dont make mycorrhizal symbiosis. Diversity is the key to a good compost too, more different ingrediance the better. Any questions on that please feel free to ask.
I think people focus too much on ratios and turning schedules, and so on. It's a pile where you stick things to rot. The only thing you need to do is look at it occasionally and not be an idiot and it'll work out. You only benefit from faster turnover times if you have very large volumes of compost and can't devote the space to it, or in the short term while you're getting started. And anaerobic bacteria aren't bad. They're just unpleasant. You also generally want high temps if you're going for fast compost. Anyways, people overthink things way too much. We're people making some compost, not an industrial plant that needs to achieve maximum turnover.
Just pile every material and let sit..it will definitely decompose for sure..takes time,yes but it will decompose..point here is just don't think too much..just do it..nature decomposition doesn't work with all of your theory..and no,,I won't ask you..
Fall is a great time to compost although I do all year. At mom's house, I start a bin late summer 4' X 8' X 4', 6 standard-sized pallets. Although I have been adding to it since late summer, the bin is now 4' X 4" X about 6 feet tall. It breaks down super fast. I suggest using a hose-end sprayer with ammonia in it that will raise the nitrogen and really kick start the process. With my big bins I use a little ammonium nitrate to speed it up. I stirred the bin for the last time of the season yesterday adding the last of the leaves and grass clippings. I will stir it again with the first mowing in the spring, separate the composted from the larger pieces and use it to start mom's garden. (She is 85 but is still an active gardener with a little help.)
I have three rabbits, I am using only, to produce fertilizer. It works pretty easy. I pour food into their dish and shortly after, i get rabbit manure, that will help break down all my compost from vegetable peels, grass and leaves. I'm just trying to figure out how I can make it coin operated.
+HolyDiverBronco Now that is a great idea - especially if you can make it coin op! I've heard rabbit pellets are great fertilizer. We've seen a few wild ones hopping around the front yard the past few weeks. I"m nervous they might find their way in to my garden and gobble up my lettuce. Maybe I should try to catch them and enlist their help in my garden in this way! Thanks for the tip - and for stopping by to watch!
Make sure you don't take all their "manure" rabbits make pellets, they don't get much nutrition from the first pass of grass through their bowels so they redigest their poop basically. You'll know if you're not leaving enough pellets cause the rabbits will get mad when you take their droppings.
CaliKim, This come from Norm about safety first, always wear protective glasses and a mask in your area for with breathing in the spores and other nasty stuff, just saying safety first. Now you can look in to your grey water from your home's sinks and even the washing machine to support your going green and further creating a positive natural composting pile. Thank you for such great detail in sharing and supporting our needs in this area of our own gardening for the future. Love the videos.
Well now, this video is a whole lot of wins. Good information, simple instructions, short videos that get updated, and a lovely presentation by an even lovelier presenter. Great smile and great personality for the video. Nicely done.
What an all-around gal...talent and beauty. She reminds me of lyrics to the song "she don't know she's beautiful." Honestly...it's great to see a beautiful lady that don't mind getting her hands dirty.
Hello Miss Kim,how are you doing today?Thank you very much for sharing this Video.I seen another Video on how to use compose to help heat a garten house,was also very interesting(how it was build and connected the green house).Have a great day...You are a precious treasure to your Family"love ones" and to many others,again thank you and stay encouraged and movtivated :-) Kenneth
thanks for these videos. I have been composting and it is actually getting hot and breaking down. I can't stop watching composting videos. how did this happen to me?
People, I have been selling fertilizer and chemicals to professional turf and ornamental managers, golf course superintendents and such for 20 years. So I speak with some authority. PLEASE!! Make sure whatever you use in your compost, know where it came from. Make sure it was not treated with pre emergents like Barricade (prodiamine) or Dimension (Dithiopyr) or post emergents such as 2,4,D, or quinclorac and many others. These products may not be completely processed and made inert through composting. I do not propose to say either way whether composting will render the chemicals harmless or not. I am though, strongly urging caution to those who use their lawn clippings or other green waste in any form, composted or raw, in a food crop. If you have a lawn service, find out what they are applying. Read the labels and SDS sheets carefully. Contact the manufacturers if you’re uncertain. Or, even call the poison control hotline. Many years ago a family of 4 became strangely ill. It was traced back to a post emergent herbicide applied by their lawn care company. The father had collected the clippings, and, without composting them in full disclosure, but he spread them around his tomato plants and other parts of his vegetable garden. The minute traces of the chemicals that translocated through the plants and to the family were enough to cause them to become ill. I wish I had or remembered more details. But I was working for the company that sold the product. I saw the memo on the change of the label to restrict residential, (homeowner) usage. And I saw the label when it changed. Y’all be careful, stay healthy!
Wow. thank you! I'd thought I might be starting to compost my grass clippings however, I'll now rethink this as I have recently treated my lawn to a broadcast of liquid Tenacity which acts as both a pre and post-emergent. I'll now be far more careful, thanks to your heads up!!!
And the moral of this story is never, never use nasty commercial chemicals in your garden (or home if you can help it) if you don’t use them in the first place you will have nothing to worry about!
That is VERY good information. I figured that most people that make their own compost for their own edible gardens would also do their own mowing, or keep chemicals out of their lawns. The comments proved me wrong (No offense, it just seemed logical). Luckily or unluckily, I am poor as hell, so I can't afford a lawn service, or want chemicals, so I'm hoping the natural grass, weeds, wild strawberries, shrubs, and whatever will breakdown well, and are safe with the food waste. All I want is peppers, chives, and tomatoes next year, so we'll see. I'm sure I'll mess it up somehow.
Daniel LaDue I disagree, it’s not that useful at all except as a general warning not to misuse garden chemicals. What was the chemical used for goodness sake? Why was it used recklessly so as to cause this problem in the first place? This is fundamental. Personally I am sceptical about the reliability of this story due to the lack of tangible facts, but I will agree that agrochemicals should be avoided wherever possible because there is usually an alternative less harmful to nature. And what does it matter if there are a few weeds in the lawn anyway?
greetings from Arizona zone 9b! we have had 3 different batches of compost this summer and just started our 4th last night! thanks for all the tips and tricks.
I don't know, the amount of work you put in to make that compost , was it worth it? all I ever do is dump everything compostable in a 6x6 bin I made, turn it over a few times while it cooks and in the spring it's ready to till into my garden.
We did this accidentally with 3 of our raised beds. We didn’t plant them for two years and my husband had filled them with debris.... This year, we went to do our garden and I was going to put herbs in those 3 beds....til I realized how fabulous the soil was! I asked my husband “what did we put in these”. He was like “it had squash years ago so I emptied the soil and had just been using it for yard waste....do u want me to empty them.....HECK NO! I added some soil and stirred it up....planted my carrots and peppers there instead! They are growing so fast!
Accidental compost is the best! I did the same with a big pile of leaves. I tilled them in to get rid of them and left that spot alone for a few years. I finally rotated tomatoes to that spot and wow! They were the best producing ever!!!
Also on a side note, the smell of freshly cut grass clippings, which you talked about briefly, comes from an alarm pheromone that grass lets loose while it is being cut. Plants have an amazing perception of the environment around them an in response to being "attacked" by certain insects have been known to release all kinds of pheromones that can attract other bugs that eat the ones attacking them or just repel the attacking bugs out right. Some plants have more environmental detection genes then animals do! They are far from being organisms that idly sit and grow. Fascinating! I do not know the purpose of grasses alarm pheromone and what the response of the other grass plants that receive this plant pheromone is, but I thought the fact itself was an interesting one to share. Great video! While I'm on my parents ranch this summer in between college semesters I am trying to convince them to start composting piles and a garden on the ranch and I will make sure to use the steps you showed in both this video and the ones with your red worms, thanks!
I filled one of those 54 gallon plastic totes with grass clippings just to use later in the season and it heated up like nobody's business. I didn't add anything. No lid. It even rained on it and it's still hot!
Clicked for the daisy dukes, now I’m buying a tractor, great! Seriously though I was told not to compost grass clippings in my tumblers but I imagine with hot composting the heat would render any seed sterile. Fairly new to it all but I’m trying vegetable scraps, plant trimmings, egg shells, cross shredded paper and cardboard boxes, worm castings and espresso grounds. I might try to toss some grass in there too I just hate to see tall fescue end up in my beds.
I appreciate your honesty, I will give you that one! HA HA. Tall fescue can be persistent and may not break down easily in a compost pile-can result in the transfer of viable seeds back into the soil potentially leading to unwanted fescue growth. If you are going to use tall fescue; here are some important management tips - -To help break down tall fescue more efficiently, mow it FIRST before adding it to the compost pile, allowing microbes to break it down more effectively. -Regularly turn the compost pile helps maintain proper aeration and temperature, which are essential for efficient decomposition. -Keep a close eye out for seed heads, if you have them remove them before composting to reduce the risk of introducing weed seeds into your garden. I hope this helps, Matt! thank you for watching, clicking the thumbs up of the video, and subscribing (if you have not already). CaliKim
+The Beauty of Football HD First, thank you very much for the very nice compliment. Yes, I do work out (at home, not at a gym), I eat right (but have my cheat meals, too) and the big'ol hill i have to constantly climb in the garden helps, too! Thanks for stopping in-
Great video. I agree that getting a good workout in while doing the things you enjoy is so much better than being inside the gym. The idea of using old fruit and scraps was a great idea. Thanks again..
Perfect explaining of how compost been made. And about the grass. This is the first time I see someone use it I thought it was just me who does that ... I add one more thing in mine ( cardboard ) I it works good too
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You and MIgarderner use mostly green stuff which debunks the ubiquitous 60/40 recommendation. And the height of your pile anti nothing to wright wright home about. Both you and MI Garderner report excellent results . I'm gravitating to wards your method with the little experience I have experience . A low pile does heat up
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I'm a simple man, I see compost i click "like".
When I have run out of leaves/browns, I use shredded paper.... works very well!
I’m so glad I found your site. I love your content it’s so inspiring. I’m gonna start my own gardening thanks to you. I live in the Imperial Valley and if you didn’t know it gets super hot here but thanks to your advice I will make it work, thanks again . Look forward to seeing all of your expertise.
This is like a lasagne for gardeners :) thank you for sharing this video, it's been so helpful
Wow, that is really nice. You are very disciplined and productive.
Hi CaliKim,
After watching your video, I decided to make my own using approx 6 bags of grass clippings, water melon and cantaloupe skins with egg shells and few sticks. I cannot believe that after 6 bags of grass clippings, I was able to get about one bag of compost. It was fun but a lot of work. On a different note, one of my friends gave me a trailer of horse manure. I am so grateful to him especially when I see the earthworm in the manure. Anyway thanks for the video.
I just wanted to Thank you CaliKim29 for making easy for me to understand how my garden works. I have been doing community gardens since 2010, but 2016 will be my 1st attempt at year round gardening. BTW 1st time making compost, your way really works!
I dump my grass clipping at the edge of the bank by my yard after every mowing. By the time the following spring gets here, it is great looking mulch.
Just cut and thatched my lawn and had the idea to start a pile. I have to say I absolutely enjoyed this video and really appreciated your presentation here. Great information and your presence is so fun and enjoyable! Thank you!
Hi Kim, just wanted to say thanks for your great videos. It is almost spring here in New Zealand and I can't wait to put what I have learnt into action. Just a quick tip for those wanting to build a hot compost pile with a large amount (several cubic metres) of garden waste. Build the compost pile around several stakes which have been wrapped in chicken wire. This provides the aeration necessary for a compost pile that is too large to turn over and helps with the smell and rate of decomposition.
Your compost is very easy on the eyes!♥️
Thanks for posting!
I've been considering having a small grassed area only for the cuttings - we currently don't have any grass at all but I've noticed the difference it makes to my heap when I use the cuttings from the grass the council cuts near our house. Great video, thank you.
"It's free, works for me," perfect!
I've been scared to jump into composting because all the complicated talk of percent "browns" and "greens" sort of scares me, but as start on year two of vegetable gardening, I really don't want to have to keep buying compost if I don't have to. This video gave me the courage to get started because I have about .5 acres of grass and enough "browns" (I hope) to mix in with them throughout the year. Thank you! ...and wish me luck!
This makes perfect sense. The sweetest onions I've ever had were given to me by a dairy farmer, who would collect the cow manure from the milking floor, let it stand & dry for an entire year, then would plant the veggies (not just onion) directly into the "dried-for-a-year" cow manure. Your comment about how cows break down the grass they've eaten... Well, the farmer's choice of growing "soil" makes perfect sense after seeing this. Thanks for sharing.
Carl Schnackel A very smart farmer, and I bet those onions are fantastic! I'd love to have access to that rich manure! Do you have a compost pile? Thx for watching,Carl!
Kim, I couldn't agree more that grass clippings are great for compost. We don't have a lawn, but we get grass clippings from neighbors when we can.
OneYardRevolution but you do collect a lot of leaves in the fall, which also work wonderfully. I did find that the grass clipping compost heated up quicker, though. Hopefully your neighbors will part with some grass clippings for you! Thx for stopping by, Patrick!
Make sure that the grass clippings you using are free of lawn chemicals such as weed and feed or any kind of weed killer.
Adrian Carlyle good tips
@@adriancarlyle4659 why? I’m new to thus area of expertise
@@FavDogBisquit Because you don't want chemicals (like pesticides) in your compost. It would be harmful to whatever you are trying to grow with that compost.
I've been gardening for 40 years since I was 10 years old. I've never had to do crazy stuff like this I just take a pitchfork turn over the soil and put the seeds in in and it grows
Thanks a lot for this awesome vid! Planning to turn my front yard into a mini food forest but want to keep things as simple as possible.
Good job! Sucess is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration
that is a great compost pile. I build my compost pile a lot bigger but I have a pretty big garden, but I use my food scraps ,grass clipping, horse manure, and wood chips. I keep an eye out for the temp to peek and then pour a cheap beer in the center it speeds up the production and draws the worms to it. great video and keep growing
Great tip on the beer! I've heard this really breaks things down! Thanks for stopping by!
Wow.. I gotta try that myself. Thanks
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DI
Just the other day i decided to start a compost pile. But i just piled a bunch of grass. Now I stumble upon this video :)
Good tips.
This is such a great video Kim! Thank you so much for sharing!! I love making my own home made compost! It's so great for the garden!
you girlfriend are the reason why I decided to try to do a youTube channel . your the first youTube channel I ever watched. this is the first youTube segment that I watched before I even knew anything about subscriptions. I am still trying to perfect the editing. Thank you Thank you
Reminds me when my Dad had me shovel cow manure for his tomato plants, he grew some gigantic tomatoes!
I really like CK’s channel,I am going to change My whole strategy for 2022 with CaliKim.
all of a sudden, I'm into composting 😁
Built my first compost bin and filled it today. Thank's for all the usefull info. 👌
Gorgeous, smart & hard working..... WOW!!!!!
One sexy mamma.
Turning compost is hard work, especially for an older man with two back surgeries. My compost pile is a 4 ft. diameter, 4 ft. high circle of 2"x1" fencing. After 2 turnings, I knew I wouldn't make it through the season, so... for the third season I rigged an aerator. I had an old extension cord reel and a tire tube from my riding mower front tire. The tube had a small leak and i'd been meaning to patch it. I put the tube over the extension reel to keep it from being crushed by the weight of the compost and ran an air hose out the bottom of the pile. Every day when I passed by, I would pump up the tube and let the air slowly leak out into the hottest spot of the compost pile. When the days stayed in the upper 90's, I just carried out my battery jump starter (most have an electric air pump) and filled the tire tube.
I mow a bit over 1 acre of lawn, and kept the pile topped off, including kitchen scraps for the whole season. I never turned it again! This year my 800 sq.ft. garden used only a third of that mulch. I'm now building an 8'x8'x1' raised bed for sweet potato's with the rest (and some top soil). Last year I just threw 5 plants in uncultivated clay/sandy soil and harvested about 15 lbs of potato's. Imagine the return I'll get from this 30 plant bed full of compost!
Exactly what I wanted to know, and easy to watch to boot! Thanks!
Very nicely done! i dig a compost pit and fill it with my leaves during
fall, with wood chips, some bagged grass clipping from mowing, blood
meal, bunny poop, and sprinkle in kelp meal among the layers. i placed 2
PVC pipes and drilled holes in them for aeration. my plants love this
recipe. I have 200+ tomatoes on just one of my plants this year. This
is really the basis for the best veg garden hands down in my opinion!
start packin' your freezer, and happy gardening!
Wow, did you say 200 tomatoes? What do you do with all of them? That's amazing - sounds like you have it dialed in! Composting is so much fun! Thanks for watching!
The type i grow are of the Juliet variety, so far ive made salsa and just been eating them, but i am soon to be overwhelmed as the vast majority are still green on the vine! I love compost, here in my city they make us bag our leaves for pickup in the fall, i would much rather rake them on a tarp and drop em in a hole and reap the rewards in the spring lol. happy gardening!
Absolutely gorgeous!! Thanks for the tips!
Great video on composting. I use almost exactly the same method. Some added suggestions:
1. Use your lawn mower to mulch the small twigs into finer shreds. It'll increase the contact surface area and increase decomposition.
2. Go to Starbucks for a pail of their coffee grinds. Mix into the pile and wet down. Ensure they are covered with other organics. Acts like nitro in an engine.
3. Once finished cooking in a few days, go the garden and round up some earth worms. Add to pile and wait for baby worms, sure sign of thriving digestion. Ensure worms go in after pile is cool or you'll cook them too.
Once complete, you have some of the richest compost around.
This is also a great way to start the pile after winter and really accelerates the process.
Keep up the good work!
Yes. It sure looks good from here!
I enjoy watching people be independent on a small or large scale.
My wife n I have built a aquaponic system for about $200 or less.
The money we spent was on braces, nails n a 650 gallon horse trough.
We drove around running errandsbut looking for wood and when we found it took it since it was being thrown away.
We built a chicken coupe from free wood.
It is heavy but looks normal.
We bought tilapia fingerlings online and put them in the horse trough.
We feed the hens a balanced diet and their eggs feed us and the fish.
The fish feed us and the hens.
The fish water n chicken poop feeds the fruit trees and garden.
We bought a tumbler from online like offer up for $20 and it hold a lot plus it tumbles for great results.
I also built a box like yours but around 12 ft long.
I just empty bag after bag of clippings until its high and full then just leave it.
When a year passes by the underlying grass turns to dirt without touching it.
To show you how well this cheap but efficient set up works...we bought a blackberry bush that should take 3-4 years before it yields fruit but the same year we planted it the flowers started blooming and bees were buzzing.
By this time last year we saw around 300 big, plump, juicy, sweet berries that taste like candy.
Our carrots tasted like candy.
Everything taste 100x better.
This year we have around 600 berries and next years has grown 2 thicker branches not just one and we should see 1200+ off of one berry bush 3 years old.
So far we harvest yearly but not enough to survive on yet.
The goal is to grow enough to harvest 3/4 of the year and winter store and preserve.
Once we set the example involve the community on a small scale then grow.
Those in apt condos ect...can help home owners or the community garden and we all barter to gain free organic healthy food.
It is work but it's very very rewarding and liberating.
Just thought I would tell my story so maybe you pick up some ideas maybe.
I enjoy learning as well as teaching.
Lifes a garden dig it
- Great form -- I noticed you, using your legs to do the heavier lifting.
- Love the rebar idea for checking the temperature of the pile. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome, Bob! Do you have a compost pile? Thanks for watching!
Yes I do, Kim. I am presently using an Earth Machines composter that I picked up for $20 during a local initiative several years ago. (It has vent holes in the side which will allow me to stick a "temperature probe" into the pile. :-) ) I use mine a bit differently than the designers intended, as I tend to fill it to the point that stirring the contents becomes an exercise in frustration. I have taken to simply picking it up, off the pile, and moving it over. When there's a fair amount of usable compost in the newly exposed pile, I'll sift it (using a sieve I made from 1x2's and hardware cloth) into a wheelbarrow; the remainder gets put back into the composter, effectively turning over the pile in so doing. Effectively, it's really not much different from what you're doing with a tarp and second container. It works well -- when I keep up with it. :-|
As for my watching, you're welcome, but it's my pleasure, really. I appreciate your having taken the time to share your tips and experiences. We cal all learn from one another -- but mostly when people such as you do take that time and go through the trouble to share what you know!
You are so welcome, Bob! Do you have a compost pile? Thanks for watching!
I just watched a video on making dirt and thoroughly enjoyed it. TY
Glad you enjoyed it! Please be sure to subscribe and follow ! CaliKim
I wish my wife would love gardening like you.
same here, its good exercise too
The metal rod is a great idea. I never would have thought of that. Great video!
Tami Smith thanks , Tami. I actually got that idea from a viewer. I learn so much from what is shared on the comments! Thx for watching - really do appreciate it!
Looks like composting saves on landfill AND
gym membership!
Yeah
Very nice. Great use of natural resources. The roach family will love the the new egg farm created right next to the food source... home
Kim, you remind me of my former roommate, she knew about farming and was soooo good looking.
Hy, Kim ! Thank You for Writing to me ! Yes , I am the one with the Green Fingers , let alone the Green Thumb , as they say ! We only have a small Place and Small Garden but it does its Job , depending on the Mood I am in ,in growing Stuff ! Cheers to You , from Klaus or Klausie but not Klause ,lol ! I was born in Germany and I often get called Klausi or Klausie and spelled that way . The thing is , in the English Language all the words and Letters are said differently than in the German Language , even like " die " which sounds like dee in English and so on ! Chiao , " California Kim ". I Love the song " California Blue " . Especially the Guitar Instrumental Version by Ricky King , German Guitarist ! C Yahh !! 😀🎶🍷💐
+Klaus Vokiee Hello Kalusie - so great to hear from you in Germany! I pulled up that version of the song just now to listen to it, beautiful! Thanks for sharing it with me and please keep me posted on the progress of your garden! I'd love to see some pictures - you can post some on my FB page ( on.fb.me/1JXq7vl) or tag me on Instagram (instagram.com/calikim29)! Thanks so much for watching!
Namaste from India!! I have started composting after watching your video...it is fun, thank you!!
Amritanshu Bhardwaj So glad to hear this! It is fun to see all that waste that you would just throw away turn into wonderful nutrients for your garden! Thx for the feedback!
Sounds great. All the best.
I got a book on composting from Rodell Press. In it when using grass clippings to get compost in 14 days you should use equal volumes of grass and tree leaves (not pine needles) . Build it like in this video but to speed things up you remove your bin, chop through it with a mattock then fork it into another bin every other day dampening as needed. 14 days later great compost. I did it. It works.
Hi, Philip! Thanks for the great tips! Composting is such a great way to add beneficial nutrients to your garden- sounds like you have a good process going!
Thanks for watching and happy gardening!
hello you are also making me excited about your compost
Uncle had a large turn barrel set up,like a hand turned cement mixer,but plastic made, specifically,you added your materials and gave it a turn or two while you're there.
your layers are amazing
I always use grass clippings. I mow n bag n dump n add my food scraps in the pile and have two piles I run in rows along the outside edges of my garden on the ends. I add leaves, etc as the season goes on and then when things are ready just drag it over or around the garden from the edges. It's black gold. :) If I have any left over amendments like blood meal etc I scatter that in too n it does great. Water it down n let it rain on it, I don't cover it just let it go. :)
I know this video is almost a year old, but I thought I should inform you the reason the grass compost smells is because the grass heats and ferments and creates a smell. If you ever heard of "silage" that's kinda what it is, however as you can tell it works wonders for the garden. :)
ll Apollo ll Thanks for the info - and yes, it does work wonders for the garden! Love it! Thx for watching!
So my cows would probably love it if started feeding them compost instead of expensive silage
Well heck, I didn’t know that the grass clippings and leafy materials were dry! I keep putting fresh grass clippings and fresh flower and others into my purchased drum!
Good video, thanks...
You are welcome! Sounds like you’ve been composting a while? Thank you for watching and commenting..and hopefully subscribing, as well. CaliKim
Did you ever do the follow up video on the compost. I was looking forward to seeing how it went.
Forgive me for saying this but even if I never grew a garden is watch your videos just because you are so very easy on the eyes.
That shovel POV!
Hi.this rookie gardener appreciates you sharing your knowledge.thankU
Good information in an entertaining format presented by a very attractive young lady. CaliKim you get multiple thumbs up!
The smell of completed compost is so earthy and nice.
***** yes, it is, Justin, I love the earthy smell. That is one way I can tell it is done! Do you make your own compost?
I do. I just started last year and luckily my chickens provide ample amounts of nitrogen rich poop to enrich the compost.
Kim, I learned that compost us the only way to have high production from this Tn clay dirt. Let me see your garden. Please
My students and I are making a compost pile with one of our beds. This video makes it look so easy. I'm going to show it to them tomorrow.
I went from “Wow, she’s cute” to “Go back, I need to write that down” in about 2 minutes.
There seems to be a running theme to my homesteading subs.... Delightful, followed by lifetimes of info..simply said :)
Bein I ,m 77 years old this would be ideal for my garden chores. Thanks for entering me
I think you would love the work of Elaine Ingham. You work from a carbon to nitrogen (brown to green) ratio of 30 to 1. Its all about making airobic compost and you measure the compost pile temps in the middle and when it heats up you turn the pile to prevent it going anerobic, adding air back into the pile and reducing temps. If it goes anerobic it grows bad bacteria/fungi and smell bad, as you say here. Your looking to make a fungal dominant/rich airobic compost for most veg/fruit that is brown (not black). If your getting bad smells from your compost pile thats anerobic bacteria and you need to turn it. If your going to use that, use it on your brassicas (cabbages, kale etc) as they prefer a bacteria dominated compost and dont make mycorrhizal symbiosis. Diversity is the key to a good compost too, more different ingrediance the better. Any questions on that please feel free to ask.
I think people focus too much on ratios and turning schedules, and so on.
It's a pile where you stick things to rot. The only thing you need to do is look at it occasionally and not be an idiot and it'll work out. You only benefit from faster turnover times if you have very large volumes of compost and can't devote the space to it, or in the short term while you're getting started.
And anaerobic bacteria aren't bad. They're just unpleasant. You also generally want high temps if you're going for fast compost. Anyways, people overthink things way too much. We're people making some compost, not an industrial plant that needs to achieve maximum turnover.
Just pile every material and let sit..it will definitely decompose for sure..takes time,yes but it will decompose..point here is just don't think too much..just do it..nature decomposition doesn't work with all of your theory..and no,,I won't ask you..
Fall is a great time to compost although I do all year. At mom's house, I start a bin late summer 4' X 8' X 4', 6 standard-sized pallets. Although I have been adding to it since late summer, the bin is now 4' X 4" X about 6 feet tall. It breaks down super fast. I suggest using a hose-end sprayer with ammonia in it that will raise the nitrogen and really kick start the process. With my big bins I use a little ammonium nitrate to speed it up. I stirred the bin for the last time of the season yesterday adding the last of the leaves and grass clippings. I will stir it again with the first mowing in the spring, separate the composted from the larger pieces and use it to start mom's garden. (She is 85 but is still an active gardener with a little help.)
Shovel cam rules!
I'm sure she gets tired of hearing she's beautiful, but she certainly is. Great helpful video and very well explained and demonstrated. Thank you!
I have three rabbits, I am using only, to produce fertilizer. It works pretty easy. I pour food into their dish and shortly after, i get rabbit manure, that will help break down all my compost from vegetable peels, grass and leaves. I'm just trying to figure out how I can make it coin operated.
+HolyDiverBronco Now that is a great idea - especially if you can make it coin op! I've heard rabbit pellets are great fertilizer. We've seen a few wild ones hopping around the front yard the past few weeks. I"m nervous they might find their way in to my garden and gobble up my lettuce. Maybe I should try to catch them and enlist their help in my garden in this way! Thanks for the tip - and for stopping by to watch!
rabbit manure is not strong enough to burn your plants, best fertilizer ever...
ozzkar71
In the past, it has worked very well.
I read this like it said I have three rabbits and only two are producing manure. Had to read that twice.
Make sure you don't take all their "manure" rabbits make pellets, they don't get much nutrition from the first pass of grass through their bowels so they redigest their poop basically. You'll know if you're not leaving enough pellets cause the rabbits will get mad when you take their droppings.
CaliKim, This come from Norm about safety first, always wear protective glasses and a mask in your area for with breathing in the spores and other nasty stuff, just saying safety first. Now you can look in to your grey water from your home's sinks and even the washing machine to support your going green and further creating a positive natural composting pile. Thank you for such great detail in sharing and supporting our needs in this area of our own gardening for the future. Love the videos.
took me 6years to do a 15x30 foot garden started with silt in naugatuck connecticut 1985
Nice video abt composting. We use cocopith an extraction of cocopea for converting home waste and grass weeds into compost.
Good vid. Although, you may want to move your compost pile away from the house. Direct sunlight is a huge helper as well. Keep composting.
Well now, this video is a whole lot of wins. Good information, simple instructions, short videos that get updated, and a lovely presentation by an even lovelier presenter. Great smile and great personality for the video. Nicely done.
What an all-around gal...talent and beauty. She reminds me of lyrics to the song "she don't know she's beautiful." Honestly...it's great to see a beautiful lady that don't mind getting her hands dirty.
Hello Miss Kim,how are you doing today?Thank you very much for sharing this Video.I seen another Video on how to use compose to help heat a garten house,was also very interesting(how it was build and connected the green house).Have a great day...You are a precious treasure to your Family"love ones" and to many others,again thank you and stay encouraged and movtivated :-) Kenneth
thanks for these videos. I have been composting and it is actually getting hot and breaking down. I can't stop watching composting videos. how did this happen to me?
*Yesss, I luv your compost, looks so vibrant and healthy!!*
People, I have been selling fertilizer and chemicals to professional turf and ornamental managers, golf course superintendents and such for 20 years. So I speak with some authority.
PLEASE!! Make sure whatever you use in your compost, know where it came from. Make sure it was not treated with pre emergents like Barricade (prodiamine) or Dimension (Dithiopyr) or post emergents such as 2,4,D, or quinclorac and many others.
These products may not be completely processed and made inert through composting. I do not propose to say either way whether composting will render the chemicals harmless or not. I am though, strongly urging caution to those who use their lawn clippings or other green waste in any form, composted or raw, in a food crop. If you have a lawn service, find out what they are applying. Read the labels and SDS sheets carefully. Contact the manufacturers if you’re uncertain. Or, even call the poison control hotline.
Many years ago a family of 4 became strangely ill. It was traced back to a post emergent herbicide applied by their lawn care company. The father had collected the clippings, and, without composting them in full disclosure, but he spread them around his tomato plants and other parts of his vegetable garden.
The minute traces of the chemicals that translocated through the plants and to the family were enough to cause them to become ill.
I wish I had or remembered more details. But I was working for the company that sold the product. I saw the memo on the change of the label to restrict residential, (homeowner) usage. And I saw the label when it changed.
Y’all be careful, stay healthy!
Thank you for the very valuable information! I believe the lawn care company we use maybe put the chemicals that you mentioned on our lawn.
Wow. thank you! I'd thought I might be starting to compost my grass clippings however, I'll now rethink this as I have recently treated my lawn to a broadcast of liquid Tenacity which acts as both a pre and post-emergent. I'll now be far more careful, thanks to your heads up!!!
And the moral of this story is never, never use nasty commercial chemicals in your garden (or home if you can help it) if you don’t use them in the first place you will have nothing to worry about!
That is VERY good information. I figured that most people that make their own compost for their own edible gardens would also do their own mowing, or keep chemicals out of their lawns. The comments proved me wrong (No offense, it just seemed logical). Luckily or unluckily, I am poor as hell, so I can't afford a lawn service, or want chemicals, so I'm hoping the natural grass, weeds, wild strawberries, shrubs, and whatever will breakdown well, and are safe with the food waste. All I want is peppers, chives, and tomatoes next year, so we'll see. I'm sure I'll mess it up somehow.
Daniel LaDue I disagree, it’s not that useful at all except as a general warning not to misuse garden chemicals. What was the chemical used for goodness sake? Why was it used recklessly so as to cause this problem in the first place? This is fundamental. Personally I am sceptical about the reliability of this story due to the lack of tangible facts, but I will agree that agrochemicals should be avoided wherever possible because there is usually an alternative less harmful to nature. And what does it matter if there are a few weeds in the lawn anyway?
Wow! Love the GoPro shovel cam! It's better than a surfboard cam in the tube at Pipeline.
***** you are so kind, glad you enjoyed it, Camera Guy loves setting up these shots!
That there is a unicorn my friends a very pretty one..
Cheers for the tips on storing food in one's freezer. Of course a 3-week compost ... wow!
You're in amazing shape!!
Love making compost and love this charming garden lady :)
You can come help me with my garden any time kim :)
greetings from Arizona zone 9b! we have had 3 different batches of compost this summer and just started our 4th last night! thanks for all the tips and tricks.
I don't know, the amount of work you put in to make that compost , was it worth it? all I ever do is dump everything compostable in a 6x6 bin I made, turn it over a few times while it cooks and in the spring it's ready to till into my garden.
why are you garden ladies always so pretty? I was wanting to make compost so thank you for the video :)
We did this accidentally with 3 of our raised beds. We didn’t plant them for two years and my husband had filled them with debris....
This year, we went to do our garden and I was going to put herbs in those 3 beds....til I realized how fabulous the soil was!
I asked my husband “what did we put in these”. He was like “it had squash years ago so I emptied the soil and had just been using it for yard waste....do u want me to empty them.....HECK NO! I added some soil and stirred it up....planted my carrots and peppers there instead! They are growing so fast!
Accidental compost is the best! I did the same with a big pile of leaves. I tilled them in to get rid of them and left that spot alone for a few years. I finally rotated tomatoes to that spot and wow! They were the best producing ever!!!
very good AV Thank you Cali....its a great job for our society and mother nature
The compost isn't the only thing in this video that's super hot.
Also on a side note, the smell of freshly cut grass clippings, which you talked about briefly, comes from an alarm pheromone that grass lets loose while it is being cut. Plants have an amazing perception of the environment around them an in response to being "attacked" by certain insects have been known to release all kinds of pheromones that can attract other bugs that eat the ones attacking them or just repel the attacking bugs out right. Some plants have more environmental detection genes then animals do! They are far from being organisms that idly sit and grow. Fascinating! I do not know the purpose of grasses alarm pheromone and what the response of the other grass plants that receive this plant pheromone is, but I thought the fact itself was an interesting one to share. Great video! While I'm on my parents ranch this summer in between college semesters I am trying to convince them to start composting piles and a garden on the ranch and I will make sure to use the steps you showed in both this video and the ones with your red worms, thanks!
Great videos easy to follow your instructions.
Thank you
You are the greatest I am glad that I found you.
I filled one of those 54 gallon plastic totes with grass clippings just to use later in the season and it heated up like nobody's business. I didn't add anything. No lid. It even rained on it and it's still hot!
Edwin Luciano crazy, it doesn't take much, does it? Thanks for watching, Edwin!
Clicked for the daisy dukes, now I’m buying a tractor, great!
Seriously though I was told not to compost grass clippings in my tumblers but I imagine with hot composting the heat would render any seed sterile.
Fairly new to it all but I’m trying vegetable scraps, plant trimmings, egg shells, cross shredded paper and cardboard boxes, worm castings and espresso grounds.
I might try to toss some grass in there too I just hate to see tall fescue end up in my beds.
I appreciate your honesty, I will give you that one! HA HA.
Tall fescue can be persistent and may not break down easily in a compost pile-can result in the transfer of viable seeds back into the soil potentially leading to unwanted fescue growth.
If you are going to use tall fescue; here are some important management tips -
-To help break down tall fescue more efficiently, mow it FIRST before adding it to the compost pile, allowing microbes to break it down more effectively.
-Regularly turn the compost pile helps maintain proper aeration and temperature, which are essential for efficient decomposition.
-Keep a close eye out for seed heads, if you have them remove them before composting to reduce the risk of introducing weed seeds into your garden.
I hope this helps, Matt! thank you for watching, clicking the thumbs up of the video, and subscribing (if you have not already). CaliKim
@@CaliKim29 It’s my pleasure, and thanks for the info!
Do you usually do some physical exercises or garden itself can help you to be in such beautiful shape? Very good explanation! Thanks a lot!!!
+The Beauty of Football HD First, thank you very much for the very nice compliment. Yes, I do work out (at home, not at a gym), I eat right (but have my cheat meals, too) and the big'ol hill i have to constantly climb in the garden helps, too! Thanks for stopping in-
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY I know I have little chances but I'll try: May I add you in, for example, whatsapp? If you don't mind of course
Great video. I agree that getting a good workout in while doing the things you enjoy is so much better than being inside the gym. The idea of using old fruit and scraps was a great idea. Thanks again..
You are so welcome, T! Do you have a compost pile going right now? Thanks for watching and happy gardening!
Have you had any signs of termites with the wood being so close to the house and touching the ground?
no, not yet. but thats a great point. thanks. CameraGuy
That was my first thought, too. Gotta move it away from the building.
Old video; we've since moved the compost pile away from the house! Thanks!
Old video; we've since moved the compost pile away from the house! Thanks!
That is what I was going to say! You bet me to it. Yes, this is not what one should do, so close to house. Best to stay away from the foundation.
Perfect explaining of how compost been made. And about the grass. This is the first time I see someone use it I thought it was just me who does that ... I add one more thing in mine ( cardboard ) I it works good too
Hey can you use .sawdust and ashes form the fireplace in making compost thank you
yes
as well as paper towels, napkins, toilet paper, urine, hair, dust from your home, weeds, shredded cardboard, and tree bark..
g human urine is like rat not for growing something u eat
Urine is fine for compost and fruit trees love it.
i'm going to start this as soon as the snow melts - thanks for good ideas and nice videos - cant wait till spring