Making Compost in 30 Days Using Pallet Wood Bins 

For those of you new to composting this is one of the best videos I've seen that does not waste a lot of your time watching it. He covers the important things like C and N ratios and pile size, moistening the pile but not drenching it. Blending up vegatable/fruit waste is a great way to make it much more consumable by the worms but not required. He doesn't mention worms but the worms will come up into that pile in the middle of January because it is warm and they will help break it down and put worm castings throughout the pile. It really is black gold. Great Video sir and you did it in 6 minutes.

I was looking for a few videos to refresh my memory on compost making and found yours. A pretty solid guide in a little more than 5 minute that cover everything. Nice!

This video is like listening to Bob Ross but for composting. Strangely calming 💙

I just made one pallet bay but after your video and instructions I am gonna get back out and build a few more. Glad I found you. Thanks

I've been searching high and low about how to compost and this is the best explanation there is. To the point, no fluff, and nice visuals. Great work!

Amazing video, so concise and with 100% time spent on most important aspects of composting

Whoa ! Wanted quick way to compost grass & leaves ; got just that with this brief & in-depth awesome video. GREATHANX!

Thank you for sharing the process, I was specifically looking for an update of how it changes visually. This will really help me figure out when my pile is close to being complete.

Thanks for sharing! I built some last weekend and have temps of 130 going after a few days of layering dry leaves, chicken coop rankings, and chopped greens that were bolting in the garden!

Very cool. I’ll definitely use this info. Thanks a lot. God Bless

Great information on temps etc,really need to get one started this year,thank you for sharing

Finally someone recommends blending the kitchen scraps plus water!

This is awesome! Your system is probably one of the most valuable constructions in the neighborhood.

This was so extremely helpful in only 6 minutes. Thanks!

Thank You For This Video of Knowledge of letting us know what u do.. I live Up In New England States (Maine) so this is my 1st winter with my 3 Bay Compost System.. u gave me positive energy to know it can be done and what to expect, THANKS!! -Josh A. Cyr (From Maine)

Compost Bin = 8 straw bails, stacked two high square, 30 minutes, $24 ....perfect decomposing compost bin. Insulation on sides,aerating in the corners,easy to move 👍

Genius work! Thanks for this information. It helps a lot. Really !

very nice system, mine is similar and very effective. I add old straw and a dose or 2 of wood ash and some shredded paper and cardboard. I also add fresh dug earthworms

That's some beautiful looking compost 👍

great video thank you for being clear and strait to the point

Awesome! I will make pallet composters too now ;) Thanks for sharing :)

Thank you for showing a start to end process.

Your voice together with the calm music is so soothing. kinda like the Bob Ross of gardening

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Benefited from your video than all the others I've watched on the subject. Yours was simple; the others were not. Thanks. Subscribed.

Nice work. For egg shells, collect them in a small pail in the kitchen. When the pail is full, place the egg shells on a cookie sheet in the oven and dry them at medium temperature for a few hours or whatever is needed. Then use a grinder, such as a Magic Bullet to pulverize the shells into a powder. 👍

beautiful looking compost Very cool video

I collect my kitchen scraps throughout the week in a gallon size ziploc bag in the freezer (chopping things up as I put them in) then blend everything up and add to the compost on the weekend, or if I don't get to it right away, it's not stinking up my kitchen for another week. I have noticed frozen kitchen scraps blend up a lot easier than fresh ones!

This is literally what we have in my backyard. I just used it to top off a 16'x4', 4" deep, raised Hugelkultur bed. Amazing. I only had to use 2-3" of organic raised bed soil as a topper for direct sow seeds. Cheapest garden I've ever made. We just kept a repurposed ice cream bucket next to where I prepare food, and all the scraps, leaves and anything that used to be alive, i.e. dryer lint, etc. and the kids take it out every morning and cover the scraps with leaves. Once a week we spray it with water if it;s not the rainy season and then pitchfork it after a while before turning it into the 2nd stage bin. I wish I had more grass around me(Florida) I would get it from the neighbors if I could.

That is so quick! I quite like using compost at the previous stage as a mulch. I'm building a pallet compost bin is week as I find the one I'm using ( black dalek shaped one with a lid) is quite difficult to use as it's hard to reach in and mix, so I'm looking forward to having a bin like yours that I can hopefully have as much success with. Thanks for the video :)

Great information and nice presentation, thank you for sharing.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Black gold for the garden!

Would love to do this in the community garden but it’s hard to do it as a group 😂 we had our first attempt and no one was bothering to chop up their stuff before throwing it in. Now it’s a big mountain of plants fully intact that are dry 👎 but I’m here learning to make a smaller one in my plot ❤️

It really is black gold. Great Video

Thank you, this is a neat idea

Wow this tutorial is gold

Thanks to u I have my pallets been s build up

Great video! Thank you! :)

Wow - AWESOME!

Thank god I was hoping id find a video showing me how to make a hot compost in this little of time I cant wait 3 ta 4 months like with other active composts it wouldn't be ready in time for me to use for this years garden

Excellent video!

I have a friend that bales silage for a living . He always has bales laying around that are already decomposing. I use that for my brown.

Nice one,looks well done.

Thanks for the information. Good compost must have four things. 1) carbon C - brown leaves 2) Nitrogen N- green leaves 3) Oxygen O - constant turning every 2 or 3 days 4). Water H2O , water is very essential for good composing.

Great idea on the slurry love it

Brilliant.

Great idea, I love it

Fine compost. Thank for your information my friend

GENIUS!!!!!! Such a great idea 💡

Another great way to break down your kitchen waste is to freeze them. Either in a Heavy Duty Freezer Zip Lock OR I use Snap Lid Food Storage Containers. Freezing Explodes all the Water Bearing Food and it then breaks down Super Fast. In my Verma-composting Beds I feed this to my Red Wiggler Composting Worms in the Spring, Summer and Fall. Super Easy to keep your veggies scraps and paper towels layered in. (No fats or grease) Anyway, Happy Composting and don’t forget your shredded paper too. DannyB from The Urban Worm

thankyou my friend

Very nice process for making Compost. It's an unique method Thanks for sharing such a nice video. I liked your video and SUBSCRIBED to follow your all future videos

I love your compost bays. Pallets can be found for free, chicken wire is inexpensive, and these bays are large and voluminous

Good video was helpful 👍

We have one garden no dig and the other is tiled. The No dig is superior! We throw banana peels and coffee grounds out the window into the garden. The bin method is used by a friend of mine. He enjoys great success with this method.

I have a 10'x6' bin ,and along with leaves and grass clippings & horse manure,i can usually get compost in 30-45 days

thanks for the vid!

Does everyone who makes compost feel the need to run it through their hands 100 times?

Ty

Very informative. Simpler and more workable than most videos I've seen on composting. Relaxed voice and background music made hearing easier and almost direcr to the point guide. One question tbough. I livebi a very humid and wet area due to heavy rain. Do I need to cover (shade) my compost pile to prevent from over wet?

Great video, I’m going to sift my compost it’s been a few months. Going to get worms to speed things up

Great video ty

Thank you.

LOVE it! Thanks so much!!

My chickens turn over my compost pile and they love it.

Thank you for an inspirational video! Just want to comment that there are less work consuming ways to make compost. I am particulary skeptical to the mixing of kitchen waste. I throw kitchen waste in a compost bin, dig small ditches in the soil and put semi-broken down compost in them early spring or late fall, cover it and let the worms do the job. I do not mean to be a besserwisser, just want to add. Your compost look just great!

Really enjoyed the video

Am I the only one who think he sounds like a calmer version of Dwight Schrute?! My husband and I were looking up how to start our compost pile and both agreed. 😂 A good beet farm could benefit from some great compost.

Love it thank you

Nice video! I just liked and subbed. I was interested as I just made my own little video making a worm compost farm out of old bins etc. I wanted to see how other people did it. Great job!

Thanks

i just rake in my scraps into the pile. i am not a gardener yet but i have compost at the ready. lol I also do it so the birds have insects to eat and they stick around. Just had ducks today also.

I have a lot of materials so I can't use bins. My heaps are usually between four to seven tonnes. I use a slightly coarser material due to the larger heaps. I do not shred leaves, but I do use a wood chipper for palm fronds, tree fern fronds, bark, branches and vines. I also bring in trailer loads of sawdust which is absolutely wonderful for dry toilets and for dealing with smelly stuff. My heaps are turned once or twice as I build them, just to get things moving, and after reaching their final size, they are turned two more times. I usually let the heaps mature for several weeks after the last turn, and the entire process takes at least nine months, but the result is usually about two thirds worm castings. When my heaps are curing, I cover them with shadecloth to keep away the endless stream of marauders, and to protect the heaps from the weather. I usually mulch the heap after its final turn with straw or hay to protect it from evaporation, then I cover it with shadecloth. I work very diligently to keep my heaps as vertical as possible, so the sides are only about 15 degrees out of vertical. This exerts pressure downwards and thus prevents outward drift of the pile. Drift can cause much loss. Thanks for sharing your method, compost is black gold.

blend your kitchen scraps, keep it simple

Nice. Thanx

I have finished compost in 2 wks but you have to turn it every 3rd day adding a mist of water as needed. Like he said get all of the materials at one time . Do not add anything else later just turn it in 2 wks you will have finished compost. I have six bins. Turn the 1st bin into 2 nd then into 3rd and so on when you get to last bin it will be finished. After I turn the 1st bin into the 2nd I will start new compost in the 1st. It will take several tries to fill the last bin. I try to have compost going all the time as I use a lot. I also like to add worms in the last bin.

Thanks for the video. I'm curious about people's opinions on sifting or not sifting the compost. I was taught to always sift, but obviously the material will continue to break down anyway. And I'll normally mix the compost with dirt to make the soil as well, so it's not like there will be a lack of finer particles. What do you folks think about it?

Nice.

How do some venders get their compost so black ?? Is topsoil added??

The problem with a 2/3 to 1/3 ratio is that my leaves fall in December but I mow my lawn starting in May. I've never had any particular ratio and I've NEVER put kitchen scraps in the blender for composting use. Too many rules. Just throw your materials in and let nature do her thing.

Great video. Good tip about blending food scraps together before adding to the pile. What is the purpose of having 3 bays in the pallet composting area?

Hi thanks for this video. I'm now starting to learn compostig...seen a few other videos. This one is straight to the point. One question for you...did you turn the piles to aerate( apart from the pineapple part)? Thank you

Ok but better design is keep the bins separate. Use 4 pallets tied together at the joints with ropes. When it’s time to turn the compost, take away all 4 pallets and now you have a free standing pile with 360 degree access with your hand tool. Rebuild the setup near the pile using only 3 sides while you shovel into the new bin. Once the pile begins to spill out, add the fourth pallets and stack the compost high. I’ve been using that method for a year with great results and really appreciate the 360 degree access.

Have you thought about adding a few pipes with air holes in them to aerate pile more?

I get massive grass clippings in the spring and leaves in the fall and at a ratio of about 5to1. So what do you do wiht the excess grass clipping in the spring and excess lieaves in the fall?

Will be living in Tennessee (zone 7B). Would you suggest putting your compost pile in direct sun or partial shade, given what you said about getting too hot @ 160F? Thanks!

it is good material to cultivate edible mushrooms.

In my area the pallets would last 1-2 seasons before joining the compost.

You can also use some Diatomaceous earth. Sprinkle on every other layer. This keeps bad bugs out of stock and smells are zero. Great for the garden use also! Chock full of minerals.

Does it matter how much sun the pile gets? I live in the woods, so I want to know where I should place it

Very good video, indeed. I have a few questions: 1. for fast (aerobic/hot) composting there is no need to place greens and browns as layers, just mix it all up and maybe place a pallet or branches in the botton to provide oxygen and air from the bottom, right? 2. Because it is recommended to make a compost pile at once, where do you hold (stockpile) all your greens and browns before you have enough to fill a one square meter bin? Thanks a lot :)

Is old hay with goat poo in it considered a brown?

It's a rainy winter here in the pnw. Can I use shredded paper and paper grocery bags for my dry material

2 to 1 parts, by weight or volume? If by volume, it's very hard to judge as the smaller the material the less volume but more weight.

Great video keep up the awesome work you do. May i use wood chips as well?

Hi, may I know grass clipping when completely dried out still consider a green?

Love this video ♥️ Just wanna know, Is fresh cow dung included in greens or browns? And what about completely dried cow dung?

How do you make it the recommended 3 feet tall if you don't have a large quantity of food scraps on hand? It seems like it would take a few weeks to reach that size...Thanks

what about rain? Do you cover the bins to prevent over saturation from heavy rain?