How to Compost Simply with Morag Gamble, Our Permaculture Life
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- COMPOST SIMPLY
Morag includes many compost systems in her natural permaculture garden to support healthy soil, healthy plants and healthy food growing.
In this 7 minute film, Morag explains her approach to using compost bins in her garden and how she makes compost in situ. She uses her compost bin as a 'compost tractor' - moving it around her garden to places that most need to have a boost.
There is a cameo of one of Morag's regular garden visitors - a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch. Being surrounded by wildlife is one of the things Morag loves most about her garden and ecovillage life.
This is the first of a series of films Morag is making about the compost systems in her garden.
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When I watch you, I feel like I'm learning from Mother Earth.
You’re the best of teachers on the tube! I am so happy to have this educational experience for free! You are a sensible and delightful peaceful being! Thanks So much!
Thank you Morag! Great composting video. I love you’re name by the way!
Oh the kangaroo was the best part!! Love them!!! Up here in Canada - our kangaroos are deer. :)
I am making a huga worm tower for my main garden because my dogs poo destroyed my soil so now I have to fix it and fast. Your ideas are great and I a putting it into practice. Thank you and warm greetings from Bulgaria
Loving the Roos strolling through and co existing happily .
It's such a delightful part of living here.
Absolutely. I work along the coast in the marine industry and observe the marine life pretty much on an everyday basis . It’s a privilege many don’t get
This is so easy, and a wonderful idea. Thank you!
Yes. Making things like compost easy to weave into our lives makes so much sense
What a great idea. I'm about to move ALL of my compost bins and place them around the garden between my dwarf fruit trees... Thank you.
as always, you explain things in a way that so easy to understand and you always have such a great way of inspiring me whenever I watch one of your informative videos. I'm really itching for my own land where I can be much more free in how I set up and run my permaculture system but I still find I can take your knowledge and apply it quite well in a rented home on 600sqm!
Ah! I love the kangaroo appearance! 💖
So happy to find your channel 😊
Welcome!!
How I love long lost relatives,... popping in to say "Hello!"... Wow! Nice work!
A surprise wallaby! Lovely and inspiring video, Morag. Thank you!
I am very grateful for the wonderful video!
Ahh I wondered if you were at Crystal Waters ....we stayed there a few years ago. The bird song and evening noises were like nothing we'd ever heard before ❤️
Compost tractor...brilliant idea...I will do that ! Thank you. What fun to see the kangaroo :)
well I've had this house for 10 years and I couldn't figure out what to do with my garden I have one rose bush on an entire acre I'm ashamed to say and 400 trees caregiving has worn me down but I'm determined not to give up you've inspired me today to get out and compost and do something with that yard thank you very much
Thanks so much for writing Nicola. Happy composting!!
Wow! A wallaby with a baby wallaby in her pouch just walked into your garden! That is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful, do-able information and the wallaby moment. I really enjoyed that!
They're wonderful aren't they. I just love having them visit in my garden!
piękny ogród, beauteful garden.
So much for this Morag! I love your permit culture style I’m always learning new things and I love to hear more and more about Permaculture
I love your connection to the sub terrain world we walk so close to every day. I was thinking about all the nutrients leaching into the ground under my compost bin. I love the concept of having several compost bins so you more evenly distribute nutrients and castings through out your property. I love your personal twists on otherwise repeated permaculture techniques.
Thank you!
Lovely video all around. And I was trying to place your accent and then the kangaroo with joey showed on the scene 😂....
No more guessing now!! :-)
Wow, kangaroos, a bit different to the rats and pigeons I have 'helping' me with my gardening. I used to have a Dalek type compost bin which stood on the soil but the rats had a field-day so now I have to use a sealed barrel for the kitchen waste. I have two systems; the kitchen waste very much like yours which I sieve and add vermiculite for potting and the 'rough stuff' which is heavy strimming etc which I use for mulch on the no-dig vegetables.
Thank you for very interesting videos.
some aviary mesh with space less than 1cm installed under your bin will help keep pests out! Remember we still need soil bugs and organisms to help us process our compost!
Super idea. Thanks, Morag, for all these informative, helpful, and motivating videos. Really appreciate your work!
Enjoying your videos. Pasco, WA USA
Donald Fugitt
Hello from Moses Lake☺️
Just a kangaroo casually eating the grass and weeds 😝 love it
Worm towers are awesome!! 👍❤
Great, as usual! Much appreciated!
Warm regards from Sofia, Bulgaria
Thanks Emilia. I have wonderful memories of our visit to Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo.
great tips and video, beautiful garden. :)
Thank you for words of encorage :)
From Porthcawl on the (old) South Wales Riviera. Really enjoy your tutorials Morag :)
Thanks for watching!
So Simple such great info thankyou
Good evening, humble woman 🥀
Hello. Thanks for the greeting 🌿
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife In fact, you deserve all the appreciation for your work. It is truly excellent work 💌🥀❤️👍
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife Good morning 💌🥀
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife I always send you my regards and unfortunately I have not received any response from you💌🥀
Thank you so much for your help full tips
So helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. :)
Wow, aren´t cangaroos afraid of people? This looked so surreal and you are like: Anyway let´s get back to the compost and I`m sittung here thinking: Whaaat? There is a cangaroo in your garden!!! Hahaha. Can you do a video of the wildlife in your garden? I always wonder about the strange sounding birds in your garden. Thanks for sharing your content. I really enjoy your videos! Anja from Germany
Hi Anja, We are a wildlife sanctuary here and purposefully have no cats or dogs - since 1987. The wildlife as a result is very relaxed here. They really have no predators and are quite casual in the way they move around the space. it's wonderful. We don't feed them - they are wild, but still they come every day to visit. They have territories, so you get to know generations of a family of kangaroos. I'll try to do a video, but they are typically hard to capture, especially the birds and platypus, goannas and snakes....
Morag Gamble : Our Permaculture Life ... platypus? !?!?!?!?
snakes?!?!?
No one corrected the spelling error, why??? Haha
@@bethratkewicz6062 Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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Thanks! 🙏🏻
Any comments on what to do with big white grubs in the compost bin? If the compost is good do you put the compost into the ground grubs and all. My concerns is will the grubs do damage to the roots of other vegetation?
Hi Morag, Thanks for the wonderful videos. Can I check if you have cut the bottoms out of your compost bins? Composting in situ seems like such a good idea! Anna
Hi Anna, These bins are the ones without bottoms. It allows connection between the soil life and the new compost materials. They are super simple, super affordable, and really effective. Morag
I really like this idea of the bottomless compost bin in situ. Thank you, I'm going to try it. May I ask what you put in as your first layer?
Hello 👋,, how are you doing today; hope your day went well and it was a blessed day for you Anna?
Hi Morag - loved this video and wanted to ask - do you ever add water into your compost bin as you are building it up?
Yes, but it does depend a bit on what I'm putting in. If it's more dry materials, then yes. If it's pretty wet already, then maybe....
Hi Morag, thanks for your fantastic shows and advice. Do you have possums? How do you control them and/or stop the damage they do? I have a garden that the possums love to rampage through.
This is so helpful, I am new to gardening and can’t believe how much I am loving planting food! I had no idea how to compost properly and wasn’t using hay/grass etc so this is great. I have a relatively dead area where I would like to create a herb spiral (I’m watching lots of RUclips videos) 😂 Ghe ground is hard and dry and there is no grass there, would this be a good spot to put the compost bin?
How long does it take for the compost to be ready in the compost bin?
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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If hay isn't available could I use brown cardboard box and dry leaves
so this bin has no bottom?
Hi I recently tried to make compost using house hold vegetable scraps and a few green leafs this I used for greens and so I used cardboard and shredded paper for brows. I turn this mix once every 10 days. Today while turning the mix i noticed that there are lots of white worms wriggling and also noticed eggs of some insect. Is this normal ? I am doing this in a plastic 7 gallon drum. pls need your advice on whether I should keep this or throw it all and start again ?
Ive heard of using the Bokashi system to break down cooked food and how handy it is to have. Where in Australia could I buy that from? This is a wonderful episode thanks so much for the great advice.
This might be a stupid question, but I’m just starting... does the bottom of the container have holes? Or Is it completely open?
This one is completely open. It's best that it has contact with the soil's living organisms. Oh, and there are no silly questions.:-)
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife thank you so much! I’m very excited to try. I’ll be cutting out the bottoms of some containers today! I do appreciate your videos! (I’m in Ny, so not as much growing and garden time, but I’m eager to see what I can do here in what has been just a grass backyard for the past 15 years!) this is very exciting!
hello Morag I love the way you show things to do. If you can tell me What kind of plants to put into my garden. I 've been trying to learn what ever i can about Permaculture gardening
hi Donna, Morag has a fantastic video where she takes us through her garden and briefly explains some of the perennial plants she is growing. It's well worth checking out to gain some inspiration for things to plant in your own garden!
Thank you I will check it out in a bit
@@donnajacques3888 Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
Did you take the bottom off the trash can? You didn't mention that so I was curious
Yes - that way the material can connect directly with the soil. Happy composting!
I was wondering this too; so cut off the entire bottom part of the vessel?
@@tseringmaya3697 Yes. It turns the can into a big funnel. I would drill a few holes in the sides to help with aeration.
Worms burrow up and do their job. Outdoors a use 5 gallons of water with cooked rice plus a half cup molasses in the mixture speeding up the process with lactobacillus that branches out like a universe of energy. Indoors i vermicompost veggie scraps from juicing and cooking in multi stacked storage containets.
Moral, love your video, how far will the worms take those nutrients away from the compost bin ??
A radius of a metre or so is much richer but it contributes to the living system that myceliates further
You have such a natural nurturing touch 💚 Does your compost bin there have holes in the bottom?
I think it is bottomless. It's essentially a tube with a lid.
Brilliant, as usual! Roughly how long does the compost need to mature?
I saw you started a worm farm using a double basin sink. Where is the finished product? I have a double sink and would like to use it but need the final instructions.. Thanks so much.
Thanks for reminding me. I'll put that on my list of films to make.
Would this work if I stood the compost bin on an area of ground I have put cardboard on? I've set the patch up for a no dig bed but wondering If I could do the bin on top of it?
It's better if it's in contact with the soil because it will attract soil life and help you activate that area. You could cut a hole in the cardboard to slot it in, or place it where you want your next no-dig bed. It will be nicely prepared for when you are ready.
Hello from Washington State, upper left corner of the US. I'm so not accustomed to hearing 'Com-pawst' but what the hey
This was a good video! I am doing what you are doing in your compost tractor except I don't use a tractor I spread my compost material around the garden, coffee grinds, tea bags, egg shells, clam/mussel/seafood shells dried scraps from the fruits and veggies from the kitchen and wood ashes from the wood stove go directly on the garden spread around once in a while crows will pick at a lobster shell but if you dry tem out first very rarely does anything bother with the material. I do not care for banana's so most of my material compostables are mainly dry and easily spreadable. I do have a compost pile but it has mainly wood and leaves (from spring freshet my homestead is on a Lake) and I do compost those piles for a year or more before use but the rest goes in the garden direct to return my organics to the garden Is there any danger in doing things this way? In my big compost piles 10 foot x 10 foot x 10 foot ( I pile leaves and twigs with tractor, I scoop the leaves and other things that wash-up on the lawn and put them into a compost pile) those piles heat up well and when there is an Irish Mist those compost piles smoke like a brush pile on fire.
That all sounds fabulous! Your soil must be so rich and fertile.
I live in south eastern az and have had greater success since I got chickens and ducks. I have not had enough green material, other than what I bought specifically for the compost.
Just a few ideas... Are there some plants that you are growing that need a trim? Are there some plants you can grow specifically for adding - eg comfrey, yarrow ..? Are there some resources in your local neighbourhood that you could collect?
I also collect the bedding and manure from the chicken pen to mix into the compost.
Morag Gamble : Our Permaculture Life My success has been dumping duck water twice daily and draining the duck pool every three days. My point is that in different ecologies, manure may be our go to supply. I would like to start with rabbits due to this realization. My sons and dogs are great meat eaters, and my great dane is allergic to poultry.
do you grow your own straw?
we collect dried grass from other parts of our block. We also collect some from a local farmer sometimes.
hello, do you know why I have a lot of worms in the lid of my compost bin when I open it
Could be too wet - add some ripped paper or something like that. Or it could be too acidic - too much fresh food scraps - hold off adding more things, and add more paper/mulch/cocopeat. I hope that helps
Sorry, just saw your message here. Usually this means your worm farm is too wet.
Anything with a kangaroo gets a like from me.
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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I just never have enough kitchen scraps - plenty of organic material, mostly eucalyptus, it takes such a long time to break down it just seems to have lost all it's nutrients by the time it does.
What area do you live?
Subtropical Queensland
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My inlaws compost is a haven for fruit flies that when you open it, the flies will sort of explode into your face.🥴
I find that by covering the compost with a top layer of mulch all the time helps to prevent this. I it's the food that is exposed at the top this will happen all the time - not pleasant!
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife Thank you for the info!I will keep this in mind!