In this video, I show you five easy ways to make compost at home to save money, help your garden, and benefit the planet by reducing landfills. #EarthDay #RU-vidPartner
When we were in lock down due to Covid, here in Australia, I thought I need to find an interest, one I could do from home. 🤷🏼♀️ I decided to compost I did a little research and in a few months I made some beautiful soil. I only have a small garden, I used it on my garden beds and garden pots, and gave the rest away. I let it go for a few years, and just recently decided to get back into it. Thank you Mark, I love all your videos.
Thanks for the encouragement and great tips!!! The sixth way is to dump your kitchen scraps on the leaf pile along with garden waste and any lawn clippings. We don’t turn it or water it. It just takes longer to get our black gold.
Hope you have a bagger for your lawn mower. Grass clippings, Comfrey leaf for compost escalator, paper, scraps pile in the sad and gets some rain. Works great too.
@@smas3256 Yes! just started growing some comfrey and the paper and cardboard work great in the compost too. I just dunk it in water and tear it up a bit.
Well come to find out, I was composting all along, I didn't know that's what it is called when you use cardboard and brown leaves at the bottom of the raised beds. What I meant was learning how to compost my food scraps.
@@EvelynJoy And imagine how many farmers and growers there are that doesn't care about even starting with the black gold in the first place. That's like pedaling a bicycle with rusted shut chains.
I now have an HOA situation. Was sad that I could no longer do all of this. I bought a cheap bender from resale and now liquify my scraps. I can pour it directly into the garden. It breaks down quickly and wont attract animals. A solution in a pinch. Just thought I'd share.
I love your videos. You always cheer me up and give me good motivation to work in my garden. I have a 860 sqms garden in rural Hungary with a small country house on it. Unfortunately I live 300 kms away from it, but I visit it every month for a couple of days and try to use it in the wisest way. Cheers from Hungary. 🙂🤗
@@Selfsufficientme I like the tumbler to not have to worry about rodents. What is the tumbler you showed ? The brand? It looks nice and I like that it’s metal.
Just make a chicken enclosure and throw weeds and food scraps inside. Chickens will do the rest, while having a lot of fun. After a year or two, soil inside enclosure will be black and as rich as good compost.
I’m doing my compost in garbage cans with tight lids and turning them over / swapping out to a diff can to rotate the compost layers. It’s working great so far 😊
@@mariap.894 Hey there 😃actually after it’s been sitting like a good 3 months in layers of grass clippings, cardboard, dry leaves, scraps, and back to grass clippings, I just take a pitchfork and fork it into a new trashcan so the top of the old can ends up as the bottom of the new can. Last time when I got to the very bottom 1/4 of the can it was all soil! Loaded with worms too. I actually yelled IT WORKED and LOOK AT THE WORMS!! lol my son was like wow I’ve never seen anybody so excited about compost and earthworms before. The soil went to my garden and within a few days I spotted a squash plant volunteer growing and it’s massive now. All the squash plants beans peas carrots potatoes and herbs are thriving. Hoping the pineapples also produce big time. They can take up to a year or more on new plants. This compost is like black gold. Somebody told me don’t dry out your coffee ground and add those they attract some type of flies. I have to say I still dry out and sprinkle coffee grounds never had a fly issue.
I love everything you do. You are my inspiration! I hope these sponsors know that people like me are out here trying to follow in your footsteps in our gardens!
Thank you brethren I’m 35 and just started growing my own fruit and veggies so far out of 20 odd plants i have 5 that survived some chillis some tomatoes and them 5 are growing well all a few inches now the rest I ruined but it’s all a leaning curve, thank you for this channel and the information
Our garden season just started but it is still cold. I am happy for your interesting advices, i love your knowledge , its usefull and a pleasure to watch you, Thy ! 💚
I prefer the 3 bay system, if you have a veggie patch, and a large one at that, and if your growing to freeze for the year. But ive always used wire chain sheets, not wooden pallets. Still comes out beautiful❤
I love my compost tumbler. The bacteria and insect/other animal balance seems to be exactly right, because kitchen scraps are becoming good compost in only a month 😁
Excellent suggestions! You have convinced me to make a chicken ring. I’m going to cut the sides off an old tractor tire and use that 😎 I get great satisfaction from the process and highly recommend it for everyone. Another possibility is a small worm box compost. It’s great for small spaces. ¡Many Thanks from the other side of the planet!
This can be supplemented by attending any event where a politician is speaking, armed with as many compost bins as you can handle. Filling them won't be an issue.
@@bron9674 Pollies work hard to get themselves elected and re-elected, saying whatever they think will achieve that. They have a history of lies and corruption as any study will easily reveal. Schools and police are funded and overseen by politicians, it's their ineptitude that's at the heart of most of problems in those areas.
I have started a compost pile this year I'm just doing a one Bay method I'm just going to continuously turned all the dirt and add more dirt and manure and food scraps
HOA is preventing me from having a garden so i wasted hundreds on seeds and have a shit ton of enthusiasm with nothing to do with it. The pallet method seems best so you dont have to dig through whatever else hasnt decomposed yet. It looks so much easier until your dive right in. You need compost and you need mulch. A wood chipper would be a great investment. Im trying to secretly grow.in the grass i never put chemicals on but everythings already established and we have alot of clay in ohio. Fingers crossed i can get by but i wont let it stop me from learning. Thanks for all your videos!
Marc, we do everything we can do to make our own compost. We’ve done it for years. I will admit that I learn from you and I appreciate your wisdom. Thank you
If you live in an apartment, you don't need a composting machine. Those are gimmicks (take a look at Thunderf00t's video debunking the scam). Use a worm bin instead. Far cheaper, easy to make, and as a bonus - in addition to compost - you easy to care for pets.
The only problem with the first method is that not enough bugs can/will get into the bin. You need to add bugs yourself. And leave the lid open from time to time to get extra air in & flies. Also, despite the tumbling, you still need to mix it up with a pitch fork
I saw you throwing teabags in the small compost machine. It would be even better if removing the tag which has ink and the teabag which usually has microplastic. Only put the content in the compost which is how I do it. Cheers!
Had a compost tumbler the rate that our family is going through veg. It was full in two to three weeks which made it redundant to have. When you could easily buy some chicken wire and build yourself a vertical stack. Long story short, if you want to throw all of your scraps that can't fit into that compost bin after a few weeks, then you just got to start throwing in the yard and actually making compost from the ground instead of spending 200 or $300 on a glorified rain barrel.
