SECRETS OF SICILIAN COMPOST: The Dynamic Duo Making it Possible
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2024
- We compost fanatics are at it again and this time we think we've cracked the code for making a nutrient rich, sustainable, compost in an arid climate like that of Sicily. We discuss two plants found locally that contain all the ingredients for the best compost recipe we've discovered so far. Join us, share your own compost recipe and enjoy the adventure of exploring your own garden and the many wondrous opportunities you can find.
Interesting results. Thanks for documenting this process and here’s a like for the shots of the pups!
Composting is everything. 🙏 It gets really hot here in Florida. I use peat moss which comes from water plant life in Canada. And prickly pear grows wild. I will add that. Thank u for sharing.
Since water keeps plants warm in Winter, this should also help to keep plants from freezing. 👩🏽🌾💚
Great to have such awesome natural resources for making compost. God manages to provide for all of us, no matter where we live in the earth He created. We live in the middle of a 300 acre woodland forest in a very rural area in Georgia in the Southern U.S.A. We make compost out of dry leaves from all the trees that surround us, and pieces of old rotting wood, and broken branches. And we add coffee grounds and kitchen scraps for nitrogen, as well as the bedding covered in chicken manure from our nine chickens.
Sounds like a fantastic spread you have there. Some friends of ours who live in the mountains, away from the sea, actually use their chickens to make the compost for them. They put all the materials in the chicken coop and as the chickens scratch around they mix, aerate, and add manure. Within a few weeks they make super good compost. Thanks so much for sharing!
I also live where water is very precious. I'm composting it for the first time this year for that reason. I don't have a chipper, so I cut the pads into into strips 2-3 cm wide using a M18 Hackzall with Diablo carbide pruning blade. I sort the strips according to fiber content. Easy-to-cut pieces go into short term compost. Hard-to-cut pieces go into long term compost (fungal decomposition). I concur with your 50/50 ratio. So far that is working very well in my short term piles.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Really good video! I added it to my interesting by others playlist and subscribed so people may find it!
Hey, thanks for the support and all the best for your project as well. We look forward to updates.
Mate I touched and ripped some banana leaves the other day...so crunchy and moist so much water innit!
Congratulations on cracking the Sicilian compost code.
Absolutely legends
Kia ora! Sending banana leaf love and sunshine dreams to Aotearoa!
Nothing like banana trunks, leaves. Eazy to chop up. Found out earthworm live inside composting trunks during hot weather.
I love the enthusiasm -- makes me want to do some composting!! Also, cute puppies....
Well, contrary to popular belief, compost doesn't just happen.
Thanks for the tip, we haven't had a lot of rain these days in central America, might be trying this way of making compost, keep it up guys!
Yeah, Sicily isn't a dry place historically. In fact it's where the Greek myth of the four seasons comes from. But over the past couple decades it has been systematically desertified. All the best, thanks!
@@SolOdyssey you might like to plant vetiver, it gives you a lot of organic matter helping to get a lot to compost
@@jorgs9508 hi there, we actually have a variety of different bunch-grasses, including one locally called "liama". It's a bit of a pest and we do our best to manage it, including putting it in our compost. Unfortunately, it does dry out quickly, but does make a good compost in the end. Thanks for the suggestion, we'll look into it.
Great reed compost bins. Did they take long to make? How many seasons do they hold up?
Thanks. Once you have the materials, they don't take long at all to make. I'd say less than an hour for two people. They last surprisingly long, years. We have a video of us making one if you want to check it out. Thanks again !
All types of seaweed have a very complete micronutrient profile. Sure wish I had better access to it! I'm 100 km from the nearest source and there is a collection limit of 4.5 kg wet per person per day, so it's not worth the cost of fuel and travel time.
Could you spell posthydonia? Ive not heard of it is it the english kelp?
Sure, it's 'posidonia'. Italian often uses the scientific name for plants, so the full name is: posidonia oceanica. In english it's just sea grass or Neptune grass. Not kelp, but I've used kelp in compost before and it's great.
Nice job, but collecting poseidonia from the shore is illegal in Italy, do it very carefully
Decreto legislativo 152/2006 spcifically allows for the collection of beached posidonia for use in compost, so long as the proportion of posidonia in the compost does not exceed 20% by dry weight after removing the sand and other contaminants. I mention this in the video. Thanks for the input!
I bet you that has a lot of micro nutrients in it, but have fun spreading it you better have some gloves and shoes
Giddy up!