Weeds Are Free Compost
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2023
- Every year I allow the side yard to turn into a jungle of weeds! I do this for a few reasons: they provide erosion control to my otherwise bare soil, they help soak up rain in big storms, and they serve as a great nutrient source for my compost! If you compost pile is hot you have nothing to worry about when it comes to spreading seeds around as they will be cooked and rendered dead.
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It's also good for biodiversity! Noticed that my brassicas had less pest problems when I let the "weeds" take over the grass. (Probably due to ground beetles). Also saw more bees than I did the seven years before I started planting native plants
I now gave up the brassica and only eat those tasty, amazing edible weeds!! Full of proteins and vitamins and every minerals ppl need. Wayyy better than any cabbage
Vegan here
Lots of beehives have flowers fidelity so they stick to one type of flower if they can, they sometimes collect special pollen, but mostly go to the same flower.
This is how beekeepers can market cover, dandelion, rosemary, lavender honey and etc
I gave up on the weeds and eat up those tasty beetles
thanks for sharing
@@superresistant8041 you make Klaus Schwab proud.
I think it’s worth noting to do this BEFORE the weeds go to seed. Unless you want to grow weeds in a bed haha.
If he does it BEFORE the "weeds" go to seed, they won't produce any seeds because he's cut them down before the seeds reach maturity
I was going to say that my issue with this is the weed ends up seeding in your compost. I hate my lawn. I tend to throw my weeds in the lawn as idngaf about weeds in my lawn. I wouldn't have a lawn if it wasn't all weeds. Lol
@@_sludgefactory5176 "life, uh, finds a way"
I was wondering about that, I always assumed weeds in compost would equal more weeds in garden
@@LizC-hq6tt, he said in the video he leaves some to go to seed where they are.
I usually let the weed die from dehydration under the sun first before I used them for compost material because some weed can grow from any cuttings.
ie know your local plants
Either from their cuttings or having seeds be ready after cut
His voice sounds a little... off
@@lechking941 Kinda hard to differentiate and know every weed that comes up on your property.
Also there are many plants that look a lot like the others. Like do you know the difference between Bull Thistle and the native thistle?
In the compost pile with 65 celsius and without light I don't think anything would grow
Been doing this for years. We had absolutely dead sand where I live and over a few years we turned it into a beautiful rich loam 🥰
If only people with sandy lands can do this, we can disappear desert sands little by little.
But most people don't actually cared about nature and often look down those who loves plants as backwards and mountain people.
@@connordrake5713 ya its sad. carrying about nature is quite needed. go to far into industrial mindeset ya end up with a dead planet that is unlivable even for you. so ya best option is to be away of what ya need
This is so good to know! My garden is almost beach sand and it's very hard to keep moisture
@@jenny-hamel I had the same problem. I got a small bobcat in, scraped off some sand, found a truckload of free red soil/clay from a swimming pool builder, put that down then a truckload of garden mix. Turfed it after, always used a mulch mower on highest setting to encourage deep roots. Still a magnificent lawn 15 years later
@@CombatMosquitoTrainer Thanks for the info! What a great idea!
looks like lots of mallow and chickweed- both edible cooked greens. Same with stinging nettle- wear gloves, though!
Yes. I ate most of my weeds this winter lol
@@lindastrang6755 I've been adding nettle to boiling water, then making soup on top of that.
I suppose, as a cooked green, the addition of vinegar would make it somewhat palatable, but I much prefer it mixed it with a soup of leftovers scavenged from the fridge.
Was here to comment that and he could also throw them to the chickens and turn them into eggs
@@williamevans6522 Wild garlic and nettle soup 👌 easy, tasty, freeeee.
Stinging nettle can prick you by surprise if you aren’t cautious! I’ve learned many... many times..
This only works if all your weeds are native species. Learned this the hard way by letting the lawn go "natural" then discovering I'd let an invasive plant run amok and choke out the grass.
Yes I was curious about this ṭoo bc I looked up one of the weeds in my yard and it said not to compost it bc it will harm my plants, it's very invasive and something it produces kills other plants. I guess you have to identify your weeds first
Not only that but invasives are SO difficult to get rid of and remove 😭 idk what steroids they're on, but my god they are persistent
Everything has a "predator" so either you can find what kills it or fi it doesn't kill you.. what it had in it to survive harsh environment is beneficial to have in your body.
Yes and this is why I was always told not to compost my weeds! Always do your own research! I was told that because I was young & thats the way the adults were teaching me. Now I know its an option if I research!
In my case of English ivy going crazy in my yard, I've turned it into liquid fertilizer by letting it and other green vegetation ferment in a bucket of water. Search for "How to turn weeds into fertilizer", the videomfrom Ripe Tomato Farm explained the process I use.
I'm Moroccan and we usually get excited when they grow ... Cause we get to eat them 😋😂.
Here in America a lot of people don't know that a lot of them are edible, and better nutrition than the greens at Walmart.
Just plant an annual cover crop. You don’t have to sow anything - just scatter some seeds. Weeds can be very problematic for the health of your soil for the long term because of *allelopathy.* I’m assuming you want to rotate some stuff eventually to give the soil a break. Happy to talk about it more if you’re curious.
I am very curious!
I'm curious too
This was my reaction but I'm not well-versed. Doesn't it have to with many weed species tendency to convert nutrients into more nitrites than nitrates (which has less oxygen)?
@@anthonysilva1000 there are multiple processes that bring nitrogen into the soil in various forms. The nitrogen cycle is very complex. I was more referring to the tendency of many weed species (definitely not *all*) to produce allelochemicals that either stimulate or inhibit the growth of other plants depending on the plants in question. Organisms that could help mitigate your nitrite problem would include bacteria species like Nitrosomonas (convert ammonium [NH4] to nitrite [NO2]) and Nitrobacter (convert nitrite to nitrate [NO3]). Of course, it’s not all as simple as I’m making it out to be in terms of inputs and outputs, and preventing weeds from taking over in the first place is always the best step. That, and getting your soil tested. More inputs are not always a good solution. Whenever you’re building up too much of any one compound in your soil is when you’re going to run into issues. Balance is key. Sorry for the tangent… hope this helps. I’m no expert myself
Thanks, Great idea sharing, I do this also. Jacques isn't putting anything in the compost that has seed heads on it. He is cutting the foliage off so as not to disturb the soil and is using the green matter in his compost. You could also use this as 'Chop and Drop' putting directly on your garden beds. Just like mulching with grass, about 1/2" thick and it will disappear into your bed. Keep your weedy area cut back at regular intervals so it doesn't flower and go to seed.
good to know. TY
I bury weeds with food scraps, leaves and recyclables in my garden. They bring in lots of worms and compost in place.
Just don’t bury the weeds flowers: the seeds will germinate there.
@@moremerry57 who can possibly care enough about it ffs
@@eldiegoasecas You wouldn't say that if you'd been a gardener who experienced crazy infestestion of harmful invasives that you couldn't get rid of.
There is always an enemy of a plant just research,,build a Habitat for flowers, insects and birds ,,I got a invasive or more than one but can use all in salad or as tea ,,the real invasive one comes with root and seeds but is very healthy so I let him not grow where he want I put out with root than and others I cut up and make healthy salad
@@ixchelssong would it help to burn out the cut grasses separately? will the remains still be usable?
You might want to identify those weeds. I actually harvest those also. That common mallow is dried as a medicinal tea, leaf and root.... beneficial for mucous membranes from head to bottom. The peas on them are delicious. The leaves are used to make Malva soup. The root and peas can be used to actually make marshmallow... but it's used to drink with tea in the cold season. I press one of the little pressed -dried 🌺 flower onto the marshmallow piece because it makes it beautiful. This is all from the same weed plant. Kids can use a tea towel to breathe the steam off their tea, as it cools enough to drink, they can sip it while enjoying their marshmallow. Nice treatment if they begin to feel stuffy or sore throat begins. Take good care and learn your weeds. Wild gifts.
FYI pig weed or red root is one of the most nutritious plants
Mallow can stop Human cells from dying... shieeeet. He better put some RESPECK on wild mallow!
The best comments always get the lowest amount of likes like yours.good to be woke on the weeds. I still can't understand why people hate weeds so much. I give them a home in my yard and I use them chop and drop and not put in a box, I use mine for green mulch
Love seeing this guy's shorts randomly whenever I binge on break, helped me grow countless plants!
If you do this make sure you get it hot! Unfortunately some of those weeds are hardy and can take over your garden. Only sufficient amounts of heat and time (sometimes up to a few years!) can kill the seeds.
If you don’t mind it doesn’t matter, but if you’re doing raised beds you can transplant a lot of weeds.
Makes sense....since plants such as dandelions and purple dead nettle (which has amazing health benefits btw) don't leave till it gets hot. I always try pulling up the roots with weeds and unwanted grass as well, and I know they would easily root themselves in new soil. Thanks for the tip.
I was thinking the same thing. Weeds can make a great compost ingredient but you have to handle the seeds too.
@@sevinaroseman5595 and some are absolutely as hardy as the terminator haha. There’s some you need to keep at 150°f for like 3 weeks to kill them. It’s crazy!
@@repentandturnfromsin for sure! Be careful with something’s if you’re leaving the root on! Some are almost impossible to kill. I accidentally put an ivy vine in there, pulled off no roots, and it had a node on it that was growing roots in my 140°f compost pile. Absolutely bonkers how hard it is to kill some stuff!
Don't compost piles usually get pretty hot as the organic material decomposes?
I’m a city girl with no green thumb. When I was little my mom made a ginormous compost bin out of corrugated metal . Triangle shaped wide at the top, but the bottom was slightly open so the processed material fell through the bottom when we tossed the salad so to speak. Then we used the stuff that dropped out on the garden.
Good tip
Horizontal or vertical?
Horizontal or vertical?
@@barbieblue3336 she laid out the bed horizontally the full length of the corrugated metal panels. She made a wood frame and there was a small gap at the bottom.
The ends looked like an X. I think she used 4” posts. It was all stuff that was second hand. She and my dad made everything out of stuff that they found or bought used.
These are amazingly tasty and healthy leaves, they are loaded with nutrients and antibiotics, you can soak it in hot water and thd tea clears the skin. It hurts me to see them composed😅try to cook them with onions snd olive oil, and top them with lemon juice😋🥰
compost isn't about feeding your garden, it's adding life to the soil
Same thing.
Me too. But also, those specific weeds make a tasty nutrient dense snack for us gardners! (Their little buds before flowering!) Look into them...they are probably more nutritious than some of the veggies we cultivate!
In medieval times weeds were just left to grow as they provided nutrition as well - they were a free crop and those that were not eaten by humans went to the pigs as fodder
😂😂😂
They were left to grow because people didn’t have time or inclination to “weed”.
Also, more plants were know for useful qualities.
But the rest of your claim is nonsense.
@@moremerry57 And how do you know this?
@@moremerry57 starts comment off with three laughing crying emojis. How very compelling
I assume they also weren’t considered weeds back then, but plants. It sucks modern society has been taught to demonize wild plants.
@@DeathnoteBB There are certain plants/weeds that are highly invasive due to the fact we colonized the planet and brought them over. There was no research back then. There are some good "weeds" but there are some really nasty ones out there that can take over a native ecosystem quickly.
I’ve always loved letting what grows, grow, and my duck appreciates me for that. I’m sure your chickens do as well. Lots of seeds to eat.
That's a great way to practice your reading skills taking old weeds throwing them in the garden chopping them up and let the seeds go all over the place outstanding
A lot of those "weeds" are edibles and medicinals also.
Exactly...
I was gonna say I see marshmallow which it’s root is very medicinal!
A weed is just a plant in the wrong place. 🤷🏼♀️
Looks like mallow
Marshmallow plant is what they made our candy treats "marshmallows" from. You can also make them from the common mallow. I always wanted a grandchild to test this receipt on, marshmallows with a wild strawberry center.
Yep. Every time I have to pull weeds I think of it as bio harvesting for the compost.
plus they look absolutely beautiful! in Oregon we have this "weed" that has the prettiest purple flower! I LOVE IT and let it go wild in multiple spots in my yard! it's so lush and magical!
We just did this this year. We let our greenhouse grow wild with weeds after we harvested, then before we went to plant for new harvest, we tilled all the weeds in the same soil from last year. Everything on our soil tester tested amazing. And our plants are flourishing like crazy!
Good to feed ducks and chickens with as well. They won't eat it if it is something that will hurt them.
That’s not actually correct. Wisteria cuttings are harmful to chickens and they tried to scarf it down like it was cocaine.
how do they know
That's not always true
Maybe certain breeds, mine shake their head no towards greens they shouldn't eat. They simply won't eat bad things.
@@lemonyskunkketts7781 but how they know tho
I don't mind the weeds growing as long as they don't have stickers. The prolific greenery they produce for the compost pile is great. 😀
Love it and is a win win, more material for the garden and less for the weeds to use and grow 🙌 Made almost 40 tons of compost this summer using weeds from ditched and fallen leaves
Finding a use for EVERYTHING is the key to a successful permaculture project. Good job, Jacque.
I use my lawnmower to chop up the weeds before I put them in the compost. Easy peasy
Won't that spread the seeds to your lawnmower and thus back into your lawn next time you mow?
@Miranda2606 Yes, but what is a weed? A lot of weeds are edible, make beautiful flowers, and attract pollinators. I also don't use chemical pesticides or weed killers.
@@chrisdarry-roseelrod4481 I define a weed as something that I have to remove from my lawn because it's not lawn grass. Great to have your own compost but not so great breaking your back even more in the process. The seeds Def need to be killed first, otherwise, No Go!
But then you don't get to repeatedly stab shit 😅
@@Miranda-cw9hq what percentage of your life is allocated towards producing a weed free lawn ?
Some weeds are also extra free food. And kept small enough in the garden they work to shade the soil and prevent it from drying out, prevent soil erosion, if you let them grow they can shade shade loving plants, and most bugs will eat the native weeds before munching on your garden plants, so they make decent trap plants.
So true - I love eating dandelion leaves as well as stinging nettles🙂
I bet you'd enjoy Goats Eat Weeds by PBS Montana. Great show!
“Bite size” hahahaha I love it. Makes me think of when I ask my wife the candle flavor
Just gotta make sure you get them all before they go to seed….
That's the trick most people aren't aware of.
@@normacroberts-hakizimana8785 “weeds go to seed?”
Ya my favorite time to harvest is when the trichomes turn a milky white color. They usually go to seed about a week after that, but if you get them in time they’re more potent.
@@conanruisi Although early senescence can be triggered by stress, stress such as having its root perturbed. As such, you need to chop the plant to smaller pieces and prevent inflorescence
@@HercadosP and really you just want to chop off the leaves, but keep the bud intact for later ignition in the hookah or bong
i’m glad i’m not the only one with that many weeds
When I was young these were my favorite to give my pony as a treat.
Your sped up video has motivated me for spring gardening. I thank you 😁
Always identify the weeds before using them for compost! Some are invasive or will kill your plants due to certain chemicals in them.
Happy gardening 🌱
Dogs like 'oh he's talking to himself again.'
You have the best-looking weeds I've ever seen. They are beautiful, and they serve a purpose😊
Beautiful garden! So natural!!!🎊🎉😊👍👌🙏
5 month process just for a short 🥳👍
But what is the need for speedy compost?
I used to put weeds in my compost. I stopped as the majority of gardening experts said not to as it spreads weeds to other areas of the garden.
Only when it goes to seeds I think you don’t want to mix it in but it can easily be illuminated if you used the garden weed barrier to cover the area before you planting new crops would really help
Never put in weeds that have gone to seed. And try to avoid putting roots in as well. As you can see with Jacques, he used a chop method where he cut the weeds and didn’t pull them.
@A R - that’s a great way to use weeds you can’t put into the compost.
If you hot compost it kills the weed seeds, or just catch them before they go to seed.
They are not gardening experts if they are giving out incorrect information. Weeds are great to compost if they haven't gone to seeds. And if you are able to get a hot compost pile (which I can't do for the life of me) most weeds will not survive. So please go back to doing it and don't waste a great nitrogen resource.
That's not exactly why I let the weeds grow but that's what I'm going to say from now on. Great video!
Awesome videos 👍 you're sharing a lot of great information.
Please do a video about dogs and gardening. :)
Remember to add them to your compost BEFORE they enter their seeding phase. After and you’ll have issues for a long time
Composting kills the seeds though
@@NagashiChidorii Only hot composting. He has said on other videos that he personally does cold composting, just leaving it in place for a long time.
That sped up chop was the best thing I've heard all day
A shovel IS equipped with a blunt, or flat end.
If the tool has a pointed end. It is called a Spade.
Thus, the two different names for two different tools; Shovel, and Spade.
Thank you for that. I never knew that, being new to gardening and not able to use either one myself at 75 years of age lol!
NOTE: do not do this with what are called Noxious weeds. Call your local authority to find out how to dispose of them
No offensive but this warning is useless without explaining what a noxious weed is
The chopping sound was so satisfying 😌
I used this lawn clippings and mulched leaves on the small hill behind my house and 3 strong rose of sharon bushes grew out of it so I add some more every year. Beautiful flowers and green metallic sweat bees everywhere lol
I love the way you feed the Earth. I wish everybody did this.
Interesting, I learned something about weeds. I always wondered it there was any good use of weeds. Loved it. Thanks
Good video. I like your hat too. I need one like that for gardening.
Even your weeds are beautiful! ☮️
Thanks for the advice! Especially how to chop it! 👍🏼👍🏼
Good looking dog!👍
i love you and all your peps at epic garden love your content
I no longer have a garden but I like to propagate the plants I have on my balconies. Some years ago, I decided to see if I could compost my coffie grounds, potato peels, apple cores, melon rinds and whatever else was left over from the kitchen, together with old pot soil, wilted plants, ripped up pieces of cardboard and some twigs on the kitchen balcony. My composting box is a regular cardboard box which I reinforce with several layers of cardboard both inside, with more layers on the bottom than on the sides and also with extra layers of cardboard underneath. It works! I turn it over a bit almost every time I add new material, especially when there is a lot of fruit so as to not invite any fruitflies, and occasionally I water it. The bacteria working hard at composting need new food: green (plant material) and brown (wood = cardboard, paper, twigs), air (turn it over!) and water. It is amazing how much you can add to one not-very-large cardboard box until it will eventually be full of your very own rich composted potting soil. I sell the new plants to friends and acquaintances and give the money to Doctors Without Borders. There is another positive side to this, too. I have very little garbage. Whatever I compost does not end up in a poisonous landfill. Instead it is returned to nature, as it should be, albeit in the form of potting soil. Win, win, win.
Thank you for this ... I was afraid the would grow in the compost... Cant wait to do this
Thank You always learning something new
My chickens would’ve loveeeee this as a snack
I wish I had a bunch of mallow to compost! Nice work!😊
I really love your content. You have a new subscriber❤🌵
That’s a brilliant idea! I have no idea why I didn’t think of that
I just got my first pot of dirt to plant from my compost bin. Super exciting
Wow thank you for the info. I’m just about to start on my garden for this my 3 year. Hopefully I will actually get some produce this time.
I need so much knowledge.
I have a wood bin like you,where I put all my compost in.seems to take a long time to break down. This year I bought one of those black composting bins,That thing is really working good.
Dude just fed his dirt a salad, a chopped salad at that. Don't mind me, a lack of sleep has me thinking little things like that are hilarious.
Wow that video was super duper!
Composting is probably one of the most valuable of gardening activities. Apart from eating the fresh fruit and veg and looking at the flowers.
Lol, your dog looked back to see if you were talking to them 😂
Brilliant. Never heard of this before
The garden process
"The perfect ⭕️ of trust "
The doggo turned around like, “Huh? Oh. You’re talking to the camera not me.” 😂
I love this organic kompos very good for garden
Imagine how many bells you could get from those weeds
Excellent idea!
It's like transferring nutrients from the useless side and corners to the actual garden
I just want to add that I am a cannabis grower and about 5 years ago I stopped but nutrients and started a compost pile now I just grow cover crops and weeds all year until planting then I compost all year then feed the finished compost to worms and use dry amendments sometimes and my gardens are by far the best they ever been and all the guess work is taken Out mostly just make sure keep compost aerated and this video is so good
I've always loved looking at weeds. I much prefer disorganized weedy gardens than manicured lawns.
Brilliant plan!
Lovely hints ❤
Depending on the layout of your yard, you could also use this space to plant a barrier of companion species & some sacrifice plants to help protect your crops against pests.
I also did the same thing, my neighbors wondered why they didn't just poison it so it wouldn't grow back, instead I just cut the grass and left the roots so it would grow back. Yes, because it is
Dude is a ninja with the shovel!
Thanks bro for the tips.
Weeds always have very deep roots. Great to prevent erosion and to bring up nutrients higher up in the soil that crops otherwise wouldn't reach.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
That Mallow would make a wonderful salad as well. 😊
Last year i had so many praying mantises populating the weeds around my garden. I've never seen that many in one place before! They are so cool to have around and they are welcome to stay on my plants, kill da bad bugs my mantises! They used to be so rare in my area. I like to believe my garden brought diversity. Only ever saw 2 in the wild my whole life before last year.
I also compost them love seeing how to chop it up
Another option for weeds that you let grow on the property is to cut and dry them via hanging as a hay supplement for your animals if you have them, it lets your animals have a more varied diet in the winter, and unlike hay most tree/weed hays can tolerate getting rained on during the dying process so you can just hang it outside wherever you have the space and your ruminates cant reach.
When he chopped it up all I thought was salad for a giant. BFG style 😂
Beautiful weeds btw😊
I will be remembering this when I get my own house and my own yard. I want to make a garden
I'd have a lovely time foraging in that! Mallow is great for pulling nutrients out of the ground, its also edible. I love to eat the immature seed pods (referred to as "cheeses"). They are so good fresh or quick pickled. I like them on sandwiches.
It's good to see you with your own channel. I wish you great success and believe you will have an "Epic" future!
I like how it looks like a pathway
Beautiful mate, I love commonsense