Compost Reset
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
- It's time to get my compost emptied out and reset for a batch of hot compost. Come along as I have a look at what is in my compost bin after winter and get it ready for a new batch of compost.
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I grow flowers and vegetables in Saskatchewan, Canada. My cold hardiness zone is zone 3b. I have an average of 110 frost free growing days each year. The past few years have seen our temperatures go as low as -37C (-34.6F) to as high as 37C (98.6F). Come see what and how I grow in these conditions. 
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Thanks for this video. I'm beginning to learn about composting and will be checking out your playlist.
Great!
Great stuff… black gold!!
Can’t be beat!
I think you did the right thing, and you’ll be OK. Because you weren’t turning it, it might have gone anaerobic and cooled down. The very process of transferring it has loosened it up and introduced air. I bet it will finish up nicely.
I wish I had that much compost. I keep my simple backyard composter pretty busy, depositing fresh stuff at the top and withdrawing compost from the bottom. There’s lots of worms in the middle. I got as much good stuff out as I could this spring, then the insides collapsed, and I’m adding more stuff at the top. Today the central temperature is 120°F which is decent for me.
I agree about my bin going anaerobic. I just could barely walk back there it was so muddy this spring. I set a board down and it was sinking into the mud every time I stepped on it! The bin is heating up now.
Great lesson, Prairie Plantgirl. 😃💕
Thank you! 😃
I became very lazy at the end of last season and the compost is just piled with all sorts of tomato vines and big chunks of grass clippings….its pretty daunting😂 but now I’m inspired to start mixing it up again. Ya made me tired just watching you turn your pile! Seems to me though,that having the compost is super worth the effort.
Totally worth the effort. It can be tough to work up the motivation to turn a big compost pile, but it makes the best compost!
I put horse manure. Turn the compost pile twice or thrice. Put some soil in the top. I started last october and its completely decomposed this may.
Awesome!
What a workout! You should have some great compost by the end of it!
I have carpal tunnel on my hands, so can't do all the turning - but I have had tree roots coming into my compost pile wherever I had them previously (I don't have a lot of areas I can put the compost squares in), so I switched to bokashi and vermicompost. Once fermented, I just bury the bokashi-d compost directly into pots or beds about a week before I plant there. And because it's fermented, nothing has dug them up, so it has been working for me.
That’s a great alternative to a big pile.
Just found you. Also a prairie girl into all things plants!
Welcome to the channel!
The more i turn it over the better my results, mine gets soaked from being under my garages gutters. Plants love it though!
Good tip!
Peat moss is acidic, you can plant blueberry seedlings in it and they do great in it apparently idk. However you can offset that with limestone or perhaps wood ash.
I have never found peat moss to drastically affect the acidity of my soil. I use it a great deal in my gardening. The acidity of your water and the soil /growing medium you mix it with may affect how the peat moss works for you. This article might be interesting to you www.gardenmyths.com/does-peat-moss-acidify-soil/
@@PrairiePlantgirl thanks for the link. That explains why 50% peat moss seed starting mixture didn't hurt the seedlings, they didn't care and my tomatoes were fine. All my peppers didn't care either. I used simply 50% hummus+worm castings off the forest floor and 50% peat miss, that's it. And reused the black thin plastic seedtray cups from last year (even if ripped an inch). And used the lower half of milk cartons. So it didn't cost me nuthin, except the price of seeds and energy, and I saved tomatoes etc seeds from last year's harvest so I didn't need to buy much of anything (except seeds), and my upfront expenses (to get the garden started) this year were primarily lighting. Next year will try to lower upfront costs even more and maximize returns to fight inflation and the rising cost of living. A huge part of it is dividing plants and saving seeds in the fall.
My compost is the pits because I can't turn it. It's full of woodlice, I can't use it, it needs to be turned. One of those twisty compost turners would be good, but they are expensive, especially if I can't manage it. Thing is, I bought worms (red wiggler and others to do the job) but it's not working, maybe they all left because I'm crap at making their home nice. If I go for heating it up, the worms will not survive :(
I find an old ski pole great for aerating compost. Poke it in, wiggle it in a circle, move it to another part of the bin and repeat and repeat. That will help to keep a basic pile getting oxygen through and moves the top layer down a bit too.
i built a hot compost bin it works a lot faster
i never thought it would but i put everything in and breaks down very fast i have now built a second one and am short of things to put in
I prefer hot compost for good production in my cold climate! It is more work but worth it. Getting enough material can be difficult.
Last year I started to chop everything into small pieces before adding it to my compost pile. It sped up the decomposition. I didn't save any maple leaves last fall, because of the severe powdery mildew. So, I am adding peat moss instead. How do you keep the rats out?
No rats here!
We have rats in Halifax, but honestly I have not seen many since I stopped feeding the birds.
Spilled birdseed really attracts pests.