This is great, so well and happily presented. I have watched many of these types of videos and must say this one leaves one with a sense of joy in doing the right things for both environment and ourselves. Creating healthy soils, plants and healthy people. Keep up the great work😀❤️👍🏻✅
Greetings from the UK. In a few months I will be fulfilling a life dream and moving into a house with 5 acres. The worm farm in the bathtub is a fantastic idea! Can’t wait to get started. I’m saving this video. Thanks for being awesome :-)
Loving your videos. It’s honest , simple and informative. The way you explain with a warm genuine smile is so adorable and thank for sharing your world and your knowledge with the us !! Greatly appreciate it!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hannah you are wonderful...you make composting user friendly!!!! easy to understand explanations and with your bubbly personality everything seems simple...thank you so much for sharing and being there for Gaia...Be Safe and Well with your loved ones...
Hi Hanah, greetings from Swanage in Dorset, thank you so much for explaining composting to us all in such a spirited, happy way, well done. I will be doing this for myself x
love your enthusiasm and passion for recycling. Keep up the great work! I just got into worm farming. after 3 weeks its really fulfilling seeing the closed cycle right in front of me.
All we can hope is this crisis sparks a change in the world. I think it will, one house at a time. I can't wait! Every week my garden grows more and more.
Hi Hannah, I love you videos, your always so up beat and happy. Your advice gives me confidence got when i get started with my gardening. I intend growing food and ornamentals together to attract good bugs. I have been thinking about out for years and now i might be getting closer to that goal. Thank you so much.
So enjoying your videos. You are delightful and full of joie de vivre. I loved hearing you say “thingo”. I’m going to borrow that. Off now to look into getting some beautiful worms. Take good care and already looking forward to your next share. Thank you!
Hi Hannah - thanks this fantastic !! A query re the aviary mesh - just wondering what size are the holes in the mesh you place on the bottom of your bin ? Small enough to stop rats and mice ?
Thanks Hannah. I’ve been a keen composter for many years but always enjoying learning more and I love the way that you present this so clearly. You’re right when you say that many experts make it all sound very confusing. We get soldier larvae flies in our compost - at first I thought they were maggots - and they knock the food scraps down really quickly.
Awesome info Hannah..... we put egg shells in an old ice cream container, leave in the sun a couple of days then add a rock and shake. Perfectly crushef😀
What a gem you are!!! Just the way you share your knowledge with such passion and excitement!!! I also thought, if you a adjust your Lavalier microphone level, easy pizzy with your phone even, you will add a little spice to the sound of you videos :) You humanoids emanate hope and joy!! :)
Greetings from SA. I'd never thought about meshing the bottom of the compost bin. I occasionally add shredded papers to my compost. It's papers that have our personal information which we don't want stolen, or known, but is not paperwork we need to hold on to. It breaks down pretty quick. My compost smells good - just like soil.
Thanks to this video and Hannah our darlek compost bin now has no flies, looks healthy and you can see a few worms and worm castings on top of the damp cardboard. Proud of this achievement! Also reducing amount going to be recycled and keeping those nutrients for our garden.
Hannah your enthusiasm is amazing! it saddens me as well that so many people dont do the right thing with regards to recycling correctly :( But on a positive note little by little it will change.
I have to say. You are one of my favorites! Really encouraging. Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge with us. Just finished my worm tower today. Although my holes were quite a lot bigger 20mm to be precise😬 I hope that's not gonna be a problem. Anyways thank you🙏
This is great, I have just started composting and will be going back and making sure it works effectively now! Also I wanted to get a worm farm but didn’t know how it worked so perfect thanks!
Ooh worm bath! I've just taken on a neglected allotment plot that has a bath on it (!); I was wondering what to do with it. This sounds perfect - especially as I'm trying to increase my composting hugely. My current composting challenge is that what I mostly have to compost is couch grass roots...
I've been putting all my couch grass roots in black bin bags and solar bleaching these for 6-12 months to kill the grass. When you open up the bags the grass is mostly broken down and you can then add it to your compost 😊
Ideas to reduce food waste: you can make pesto from carrot tops! For example with roasted sunflower seeds, oil and salt! You can eat apple peels! You can eat your housemate's bread crusts! :)
"Waste us just a resource out of place." 🌎💚♻️ I've been composting since Jan 2019, when I started my food garden. I truly believe all humans are meant to grow food. It's never too late to start and reverse the damage we have caused our planet.
Hi Hannah, thanks for your videos! My partner and I live on the eastern shore and love the fact you are local! We are loving getting stuck into the garden during these interesting times. We were wondering if you are able to do a video on when and how to prune fruit trees? The house we bought has both old established apples, pear and peaches and we’ve planted a new apricot and lime. These all need some TLC but not sure where to start. Thanks again!!
Ive been composting and doing it "good enough" but it still smells slightly. I might have to follow the layer depth guide a bit more strict and carbon as a top layer is something i always neglect to do. Thanks for the tips.
I love your videos, they are so inspiring. I am hoping to be self sufficient and have a setup like yours one day soon. Can you get a microphone, the sound is much clearer when the phone is close to you.
Fantastic, once again. I love that you simplify the carbon /nitrogen so well. My kids & I have always had trouble with following what amounts to do. Yay. So simple. I'm just starting compost bays in my chook pen, the chooks have access and can feed & poo on each layer until its 1m² then I intend to cover and start another, inspired by Geoff Lawton chook tractors /compost system . Do I still use this ratio of yours?
thanks for your edutaining videos Hannah, great tip for rodent proofing the bin! and hand&pinky rule of thumb!! and saying hello to your delightful goats too : ))
You're the best Hannah, these videos make me so happy! I have a question about if I need to turn the matter in the compost bin and if so when and how often? Thank you!
This is optional. Some people will fill a bin and then leave it while they then use a second bin. In this time you can add compost worms to the full bin to turn it for you - or just let it sit. I just let it sit there with worms while I use a second bin and over a few months or so it gets nice and mixed up - especially when you put in compost worms!
Great video, very helpful info. Working in a compost now. On another note I love your boots! Could I ask the brand? Keep on gardening, we love your channel 🌻🌻🌻
I have a question! So having no prior knowledge on composting but frustrated by the amount of food waste at my place i started popping all our scraps into one of those plastic compost bins and just figured it breaking down was better than popping it into land fill. Now i'm more interested in what's actually happening and i've noticed the compost is super wet and pretty smelly, would you recommend for me to start those nitrogen carbon layers to salvage it or look into sourcing some worms, since my 'compost' is so nitrogen rich?
I put food scraps in my blender and whiz it a bit before adding to my compost bin so it breaks down quicker because I always have a shortage of compost if I don't 😉 and I have a tumbling system...
Were ive been dumping our lawn clippings originally straight on the ground or lawn we have left it for well over a year and been adding to it I turn it every say three or 4 months ive notice millions of thin worms I was wondering if these are composting worms how would I know if they are right worms to use in a worm farm.
Thank Hannah for sharing this information. Love your positive attitude and how you encourage us all to do it! 😀 I have a question about tje bucket method. Did you say we can put this in our garden beds directly?
Yes you do...after you have put holes in it as per what Hannah showed you bury it in your garden just enough so you can put comfortably the lid on. If you're not sure check out on RU-vid for worm towers.....
Please don't laugh but I did #1 and #2 in the same compost bin. I had no idea what I was doing but I love my worms. It's been 12 months now and they are thriving. Though I haven't taken anything from the compost pile. I have the red worms you showed and they love their food scraps. I turn the pile every 2 weeks when I add new food. I'll stop doing that when the temperature drops for winter. Maybe in Spring I'll open it up and sorry it out.
Great Vid Hannah. I started my first compost bin yday in an old garbage bin. I think the work farm is great. They just breed in there and you use them in the compost bin or do you put them in the garden? And what exactly is the use of the bucket in the ground? Are the worms supposed to get out or are new ones suppose to come in? Dint quite get that bit. Loved the vid though, will surely follow you. Ta
Once this is done and you produce more food scraps as days go on do you just top it up and add some carbon over it? Also when are you supposed to mix it? Thank you :)
The stuff on the right side of the bathtub was vermicompost, most of the worms move over to the other side where the new food is & you rest the original side then shovel it out after a while, just as you shovelled the food in. In the small bucket, any liquid seeps out through the holes into the garden bed & the vermicompost is also both inside the bucket & throughout the bed, depending where the worms were when they defaecated.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful ideas, very helpful! I have a question thought - is it ok to mix the layers or is it best to just leave them like that?
This is deadset my new favourite channel...could you show when the compost is ready to use? I’m so ignorant but if you keep adding, at what point do you pull it out and actually use it....🤔
Hi Hannah. Loving your videos! I've hesitated to do anything with the old bath tubs we inherited with our property because of a fear of the lead in their finish leaching out. Do you have any thoughts on that fear? Also, in your worm farm, how do the worms go with being put into the garden, or are you "resting" the other half to send the worms away before you use the new soil elsewhere?
scroupes I had the same concerns about an old bathtub and we bought a lead testing kit from the hardware store. Very simple and only took a few minutes. My partner bought it, but I don’t think it was expensive.
You might consider removing a shrub along the fence line to make room for a compost bin. You can always place a container with a suitable plant (such as an ornamental grass) in front of the bin to disguise the bin and make the area look more attractive.
