Huge Benefits of Using Semi-Finished Compost in The Garden
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- Semi finished compost is easy to create, takes very little effort, and can have huge benefits in the garden. In this episode I will be oputlining the benfits of semi-finished compost and what it can do for your garden.
Do you use semi-finished compost in the garden? :D
I buried my very unfinished compost about a foot deeper than the fruit trees I planted this year They all had more fruit than the branches were able to hold without breaking, so I cut most of the fruit off so the trees could concentrate on roots instead of fruit.
Yes, although I have to admit it has more to do with my impatience and lack of experience making finished compost. When I get a big enough pile, a bit less than a cubic yard/meter, I mix in a good amount of fresh grass clippings to get the pile really cooking. After about 5 days at 140-160F, it cools back down, and I turn it into the adjacent bin. At that point, it never makes it above 120F and cools down to ambient after another week. About 3 weeks after my infusion of grass clippings, it's pretty much a "cool compost" process, so I use it as soon as I need it. It pretty much fits your example of semi-finished and works well as a top mulch or for my fall bed prep. Because of our bright sunlight here in northern Colorado, I top it with straw to prevent the dark material from absorbing heat.
I got humus from a nearby source this year for $35 @ 2 cubic yards. I was bummed it wasn't broken down completely thinking it wasn't going to be any good. I was pleasantly surprised
Interesting topic….but I think you should rename it. Semi-finished compost is a lot to say. How about “BETTER THAN MULCH”?
It's funny because I actually do.
I have the same reasons too. I was just thinking how I like using unfinished compost in pots even.
Last year you did a talk about cooking your banana peelings and putting them with crushed egg shells into pepper plants!
I followed along and had the most big beautiful red peppers you could imagine.
I also think worms worms worms; they love to eat it and give castings.YES.
Thanks and may the Lord bless you all.
I like to develop compost piles on ground where I intend to put a raised bed in the future. That way, all that gets lost from the compost pile gets lost to the ground under a future planting zone!
Good idea!
@@mosart7025 My entire front yard is under a foot to two feet of debris from a yard clean up project from my wife's yardwork company!
I do the same, especially with hot compost. Saves on tilling too.
Same here - except I use the plastic compost bins and that's working well too!
@@leagarner3675 I'm currently killing some weeds with a hot compost pile! LOL I love it!
The other benefit that I love is the volunteer plants that thrive in unfinished compost. Pretty much all of my cucumbers and squash for fall came from volunteer seedlings 🌱 happy fall gardening everyone!
Me too! I have 10 acorn squash plants that were volunteer from semi-finished compost that I top dressed my raised bed with this spring. When they came up in the raised bed, I transplanted them to the in-ground garden. I have 12 full-sized acorn squash and a bunch more that are still tiny. Not bad for free plants! Oh, and I've never grown acorn squash before - these were all seeds from store-bought squash!
@@livingcountry2428 my two sugar pumpkin plants are volunteers from a pumpkin we let sit far too long on the counter, it's amazing how many of the seeds germinated in the compost pile!
And so do weed seeds.........
If I waited for compost to be 100% finished, then I would never be able to harvest it. I keep two piles. The main one I like to harvest from each spring. Late winter I stop adding stuff and I put all the new stuff on the second pile. I let the main pile “finish” up for about 6 weeks and then harvest it right before planting in May. It’s typically dark brown but still has larger chunks that are recognizable. I agree it is nice as a mulch which is why I top dress with it.
Lately, I've been doing what's called "trench composting", where you put all your fruit and vegetable scraps into a bucket in your kitchen. When the bucket is full, you just bury the scraps out in your garden, and it gradually breaks down and feeds the soil.
I started doing trench composting last year and the results are amazing. This year I have some of the best tomatoes I’ve ever had. More people should try it.
Don't you get a lot of bugs in the house doing that?
@@DreidMusicalX Actually, no. One would think that would be the case, but I never had that problem.
Also, you'd expect critters outside to dig it up, but that doesn't happen either. It also smells nice, which was unexpected. I thought it would smell bad, but it actually smells fruity and earthy.
I have tried trench composting a little, but local dogs love to dig it up.
@@Steve197201 Thats wild because I sometimes put things in a bucket outside my front door to take to the compost pile and I sometimes get things like gnats .
I live in a lower income neighborhood. I have a front and back yard, but I also have a serious advantage. In 2014 my wife and I started a yardwork business that she still runs. I get all the materials I need from her customers' yards! I can easily fill up one of your palette compartments in one Overhaul (total clean up project). Also, when I can afford a wood chipper, she can begin bringing me all her tree trimmings for nice mulch for the paths between my raised beds!
Yes, people pay my wife to go out collecting compost materials for me to run my urban farm!
That’s so cool, thanks for sharing.
I hope to see more urban and small scale farms, they can be such an important resource for local communities, especially food deserts.
@@Nikki-mx5my When they do not have many overhauls, I can always take my lawnmower out, walk down my street, and quickly find a lawn in need of a free mowing!
@@Nikki-mx5my Well, here in Tucson, AZ we are in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. And, boy is my yard GREEN! :O)
I used my seimi-finished compost this morning. I have a small barrel that I can turn every day with 2 different compartments. I also used it last spring and my garden thrived. I have limited space so I "took a chance" after waiting and waiting. I'm 74, how long can I wait?...LOL Thanks for confirming that what I did was more than ok. From San Diego.
Thats awesome you can joke about your age happy gardening
@@zmblion I'm blessed to be very healthy and I don't take it for granted. :)
74 is very young still, and lots of great tears ahead of you still left since you are a gardener and gardeners lead healthy and quality LONG lives! Happy gardening!
Yay! I love hearing this! 😃I was under the impression I had to wait until compost was fully broken down to be able to use it at all. It will be so very wonderful to be able to mulch my garden with this. I only have room for one compost corral and will be adding small amounts almost daily.
City people only.... weed seeds and straw and hay seeds grow in your garden like weeds and grass if not finished...........
I really liked that you mentioned that compost, once finished, doesn't just last forever. As a new gardener that's something I've been wondering about for a while, but I figured no one would ever talk about it. I'm so glad you did!
I once had a trash can full of coco and just let it sit there for years
I then used it and it was like magic soil. It had worms in it and years worth of rain filtering. Had so much microbes and life
Just once 🤘🏽🔥
Most people throw their leaves and things out. Around here for the dead vegetation to be collected by the city one must put it in large paper bags that are sold at Home Depot and other stores. I drive around and collect bags filled with leaves when I need them.
Brilliant
I seen 3 big bags of leaves at the curb at some random house... Tossed em in my trunk and now they are compost ^_^
Exactly, im in Sweden our system is different. But i have contact with several in the area. So i can get plenty material!
Lots of times you can find free wood chips too
@@shadowcrash333 Nice how the neighbors rake them up and bag them for you, eh?
Spot on Luke! Your comments on covering/not covering compost piles is good advice that is rarely discussed.
I love the idea! I actually have some semi-finished compost ready for when we have our first Frost. Looking forward to using it! Thank you for explaining about this.
Hey man, just recently got into your channel and I'm loving all your information you give. I'm in Detroit Metro and am putting some of your tips in place trying to make my property and the community more beautiful with plants and life ! Much love
Great video thank you for the education your a really good teacher we appreciate your love, dedication and hard work have a blessed evening
The thing I wouldn't add to semi finished compost would be nitrogen sources around the plant stems. I mulch and use semi finished compost a lot. I added used coffee grounds one year on top of my semi finished compost, but had it too close to the stem of the plants. The semi finished compost heated up and caused stem rot on my plants. They were dead within a few days.
I still use semi finished compost as a mulch and regularly add used coffee grounds. However, I make sure there is an inch or two gap between the stem & the compost that I put the used coffee grounds on.
I like to leave an inch or so around the stem for water to get through.
The volume required for compost to heat up is 3 cubic feet. Spreading it on top of the soil would not cause any increase in heat. There must have been another reason that happened to your plants.
The mulch can hold moisture against the stem, which can cause rot that will girdle it and kill it. The same thing happens to trees when they have been mulched too close to the trunk.
@@cupbowlspoonforkknif Actually, compost will gain some heat in smaller sized amounts, but it will not heat up enough to kill weed seeds. Just mix a small pile of leaves with a small pile of fresh grass clippings, moisten it, and you will see it heat up. It runs out of heat pretty fast, too.
@@doloresreynolds8145 I think it probably was the combination of the two. Warmed it up and kept moisture against the stem and caused a fungus to grow quickly on the stem that killed the plants.
I've had thick wood chip mulch around my plants for years and never had this happen until I went crazy with the used coffee grounds.
My compost pile never gets to a finished point (except for the bottom bit). I scoop it up, chuck it into the soil recycling pile and mix. A couple of years ago, I was wary of starting composting, because I worried that I wouldn't have enough brown in the right combination with all my green... ugh... until I saw a video you did-- I think it was about amaranth (?)-- where you were talking about your father-in-law's method of just chucking things into a general pile. My words; not yours.:) Anyway,, I was throwing away tons of produce scraps and coffee grounds every week, and it broke my heart. Your FIL story :D inspired me to just start a pile, and not take it so seriously. I used carefully curated selections from my paper shredder to make up for insufficient browns. Now, if anyone were to ask, I have no shame saying "I'm a whole foods vegetarian coffee addict who gets too much junk mail... my compost pile is mighty."
First year gardener here. I built a 3ft tall raised garden bed and filled it with the partially composed grass clippings and a pile of clay soil I kept from edging my landscaping beds the last two years. 50/50 mixture tilled.
I had beginners luck because my garden is producing yields that my dad has never seen in his whole life of gardening.
This is such useful information. I wish I'd had it just a few months sooner. BUT - appreciate getting it regardless. Thank you!
Love this! Everything I’ve read indicated compost needed to be complete before using. I am currently running out of composting room in my 2 huge Smart Pot compost bags and a barrel and I need to be able to free up at least one bag to continue composting. Off I go to spread my almost-finished compost! Thank you!
Thanks for this video! I am thrilled I can use my semi-finished compost as mulch in my garden!
Totally awesome, really useful. Thank you!
I put a heaping shovel full of semi finished compost in each hole that I plant trees/shrubs & handful in each planting hole for each & every plant that I put in the ground. I absolutely love using it & putting all that organic matter in the ground is so beneficial!
Perfect timing. Thanks Luke. My thoughts were to top w pretty mulch from lowes for cosmetic purposes. Here i thought o was just being a bit too eager and rushing things. As usual your videos seem to come just when i need them.
Awesome! What a game changer!! Ty
Excellent video. Thanks.
Thank you from Ontario Canada
Put my semi finished compost in yesterday to top off areas in containers and raised beds to plant my peas, radishes, beets and carrots. I don’t add citrus or onion family foods to my compost pile. Love all the information you share Luke. It helps us all grow big AT home ☺️
Why not citrus and onion?
Bokashi compost - this method is an amazing gift to the urban gardener with limited space. It has transformed my garden soil from good, to incredible. Plus, it takes ALL of my food waste out of my trash. Plus, everything is broken down and ready to grow stuff in 4-6 weeks. It may seem to god to be true, but the Japanese have been using this method for hundreds of years, with great results.
My compost is goat and chicken and duck manure mixed with hay bedding and shavings. Mountains of it. And we have two giant piles of pine wood chips sitting out back for mulch. I feel sorry for those who cannot have livestock. Come to New Hampshire.
I was recently forced by my city to get rid of my chickens after decades of raising them. So I have had to re-assess how to do my compost and feed my gardens. Organically. I am trying to produce a green compost/fertilizer of only vegetation. Maybe will add vermiculture. Maybe will move to New Hampshire :)
@@leagarner3675 I’m very sorry to hear about your city. I would have guessed you could be grandfathered. Or as I did, request a variance to zoning ordinances. But it can be expensive.
@@pattysherwood7091 Yes, you would think so.... also, no bees or harboring of bees allowed.
@@leagarner3675 communists! Agenda 21. They are everywhere
@@pattysherwood7091haha.. i didn't think of that...maybe i could get that on the city council agenda.
Just posted right when I get a compost bin!? Nice!
This is helpful
Great info. TFS
Just today I mixed my BSFL compost with last year's leaves and wood chips to make the top layer for my in ground greenhouse.
I needed this thanks! I have so much semi finished compost I need to make some room!!
Great timing for me as spring planting has begun here in Australia but the compost pile is still a work in progress
Thanks!
Good stuff
Great video. I like to do chop and drop technique and bury food scraps directly in garden and around fruit trees. I also have an underground compost pile which is in cognito.
I bet it works better than leaf mulch for winter protection. I tried it last year and the wind had blown everything away and on the sides when spring came.
I started my 1st compost bin this year and may use most of it as semi-finished compost for my garden next spring.
@migardener been adding Sassy Lass into my brewing worm tea and it had done wonders. My plants seem to grow even more with the addition of Sassy Lass while brewing the tea. Question though, how long will the Sassy Lass keep in the fridge? That bottle goes a long way and my garden isn't big enough to use it in just a few months. Thanks
I use a fair amount of manure for the green portion of my compost. I know goat manure is not hot and ready to use right away. However, there is often urine in their bedding that I add as well. Horse manure is hot and chicken manure, very hot. How long do I need to wait to use my unfinished compost with different animal manure used. I think for now I will keep the goat separate from the horse/donkey/chicken pile. Just hoping for some guidance in reference to different manures.
Thank you so much for your most awesome videos. I only just found you about 2 weeks ago and it's safe to say I'm addicted! I'm a new gardener so your videos have filled me with so many ideas to start next year. I can hardly wait!! Thank you!
I have a squirrel who makes semi-finished compost for me out of pine petals, etc. He lives in a stand of Ponderosa, right next to the garden, but I guess he mostly likes pine cones. The sheer volume of rotting pine petals one squirrel can pile up is not short of incredible. I used them to fill pots for potato growing this year, in addition to mulching everywhere else.
I've seen that when I go camping! I want to take some so badly but it's a protected park so that would be a no-no. It's such a great texture though.
thank you sir
Used mine for mulch. My impatience 🤓
Hi Luke. Great video. In Chicago, I'm about 55 days from first frost so I'm still producing, but soon I'll be prepping for 2022. Is the semi-finished good to use as a cover for winter. (And, also to help bolster new beds that have shrunk...) oh darn, you just answered my question. You rock, still any other over winter suggestions?
In my central Florida garden, my semi-finished compost goes on in the fall, then I can grow lettuce, kale, etc all winter. On the few nights we get a frost, I cover the beds and keep growing all winter. It takes longer because of the shorter days, but makes up for not being able to grow in the hot summer.
Check out Growing in the Garden. I’m in Phoenix AZ, and she is a local master gardener. We can grow things in 115F heat in the middle of summer. May not be an exact match for your growing zone, but she has been an invaluable resource for me.
@@rebeccacron8614 Thanks so much!
It looks like you have a volunteer squash plant coming up near your compost pile too. A butternut squash that I planted on purpose is 8" tall with no female flowers. The one around my compost pile is 10' long with at least a dozen fruits ripening.
I would love to hear you talk about animal manures in the garden.
Thanks for the great idea Luke! I've been playing with this idea in my garden - that is I've been mulching with kitchen scraps instead of using a compost bin. I cut everything up very small and mix in leaves and paper when able. No doubt the potatoes will love it but do you think that's a good practice for other plants like perennials?
Also, I've been a fan for years and would love your input: I've got a major problem with bermuda grass, which I think I see in your yard in this video, do you have any tips for managing it in the garden???
Thanks, with lots of love and respect from CA.
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Just added some today 😄
Excellent video! I’ve been stirring the compost pile making sure it’s ready for the garden.
Question, would you plant a cover crop over a semi-finished compost or is a cover crop, like red clover, not necessary?
Hello I love love your videos thank you for all your help! This year is my first year planting and I am cleaning my metal boxes i dos use hay to protect my plants and I have thousands of I think térmite on my soil!!!! I put diatomaceous dust remove the hay.
How can I get ride of them? Do I need to dispose my soil? And star all over again? Please any information it will be greatly appreciated it. Thank you
Can you please do a video where you are utilizing and spreading it on your garden? Thanks a million!
I made a sieve frame out of 1x3 and 1/2” wire hard cloth. Fits over my wheel barrel and I just dump a couple of forkfuls of compost in it, swish around with my gloves hands. What falls through I use and the larger material goes back in the bin. Works great!
Have you thought of going on the road to desperate gardeners to rescue them? You could do your show at different locations and then do updates (maybe just have them send in some video). We live in Ohio. That's not too far.
Did you let it get "HOT"? I've found that the compost that i use in back to eden garden will sprout weeds from my seeding blocks.
You wouldn’t want to use unfinished compost in a seedling tray or bed. The lack of adequate heat would allow weed seeds and fungus to compete with the seeds you plant. As mulch in the garden, though, it is usually easy to keep up with pulling those stray weeds with little harm.
Thanks Luke. This video has been needed for a long time. I wouldn't recommend starting seeds directly in an incomplete compost. Seeds are food for microbial life that breaks down compost and partially composted materials might still be getting too warm and degrade germination. I love using it as a mulch directly on top of anything with at least true leaves showing though.
The minimum volume required for compost to get hot is 3 cubic feet. Unless your garden bed is 3x3x3, you don't have to worry about heat.
The heat might not be the big issue, but the active bugs in unfinished compost might mistake your seeds for their dinner. :P Either way, it makes great mulch.
I am so lazy I chop and drop and other compost in place strategies.
hi great content, I have a question.. can I put worms to semi finished composed to speedup the process..
another question, can i add legume plants like beans to fix the nitrogen content in the soil?
I've tried composting in the bed, not just as a mulch like in the video. Wow, that failed. I've tried it 3 times with different types of plants. I mix soil in with the unfinished plant material but the plants seriously struggle. I assume there are too many microbes and insects attacking the roots. And/or maybe the water is draining/evaporating too fast as I live in Phoenix, very hot & dry so heavy clay soil has the advantage of holding moisture.
Composting here is difficult because we get almost no rain so expensive water has to be used. The one trick that is working is to put the material into plastic trash container, add a lot of water, wait 7-10 days for break down to start then flip the containers upside down. That drains the standing water, get's a little gas exchange. Then they can sit for several weeks without drying out.
That is exactly what we do. We have a tumbler. Fill it up. Dump it out. Dry it out, shred it. And send it to the garden.
Luke, OT, but I would love to grow some of the beautiful carnations for which you are offering seed, but I don't know when or how to grow them. I live in upstate NY, USDA zone 5, or 5b by now, and the soil is heavy and damp. I know carnations are a Mediterranean variety originally. Can I hope to grow some?
Mine is done under a tarp and I call it Gardeners Gold.
I bury my citrus peels and onion skin etc. that I cannot put in my wormfarm in my garden bed. In next month or two it breaks down. I believe it adds nutrients to my soil. What is your opinion?
I used to fill 5 gallon buckets of waste from vegetables and flip them upside down and they would compost down quickly, then the rats discovered them. Now I just leave it in the 5 gallon buckets with the lids on, then ones it's broken down to a slurry, drop it in the garden. I wonder if this is bad?
Thank you for this! I have a 2 compartment compost barrel. My kids screwed up the system very early on, so now both compartments are filled with semi-finished compost. I will be adding it to my raised beds after everything is done growing for the year. I do have a question; when using it as a mulch, do you plant the seeds and then put it on top? Or are you supposed to wait until the seeds sprout and then put it down? Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I was never taught how to use mulch. My depression-era grandma is the one who taught me how to garden. So I was taught how to garden in ground; no fancy mulch, never step on the tomato vines, and dust everything with powdery mildew killer.
If Luke is putting semi finished compost on now, there won't be any plants at all until spring. He's in a climate that will freeze soon.
In the spring I think you'd want to wait until you have young established plants, then put some compost around them. Or you can put a layer on the whole garden while you start your seeds indoors, and then transplant the seedlings into the prepared bed. Happy gardening! 🌱
@@that_auntceleste5848 He's in southern Michigan I believe, and I'm just across the state line in Northwest Ohio, lol. We probably won't have a hard freeze until mid November.
I added unfinished compost to my garden beds in December, zone 5b. I only have one composter, and it was full, and I had enough material to fill the container again. I just added it on top, figuring it will compost more before spring. Is this ok? Should I have dug it in instead?
I just dumped 5 gallon bucket of compost on my beds for tomatoes and peppers..it's very close to being done..it had gotten a little wet.I figure a little mix on the bed and the heat that it will.finish in time for tomatoes and peppers.Its a first time bed.Would you add bone meal too now?I am 2 to 4 weeks.from planting..depends if it stays warm..
I have cantaloupes growing from my compost that overtook the roses!
I have 200 feet of pumpkin vine for the same reason lol
I live in northern Illinois and I need to know when are sunflowers ready to be picked and dried? Mine are looking so droopy. The heads seem to be hanging down instead of up at the sunlight. Thank you for anything you can tell me about my sunflowers.
Search “how to harvest sunflower” drooping is normal if it’s been pollinated. Just gotta let it dry out before collecting seeds
I am getting a semi finished compost every 6-8 weeks and my garden loves it. But the downfall im getting is when i direct sow seeds, im lucky if one out of 8 seeds germinate. I believe it is due to all the bugs in it breaking down my seed. If i germinate in pots then plant in the garden it works great. What do you think Luke? Id like to direct sow with more success. Maybe put couple inches of potting soil on top where i sow?
I do something similar, my guess is that the structure of the material is still too loose, lots of big chucks that allow air pockets. Especially with small seeds and seedlings, you have to maintain really consistent moisture, and semi finished compost wont hold as consistent moisture as finished soil. My solution is to only plant the seeds in soil, then top dress with semi finished compost once the seedlings are a few inches tall. Best of both worlds.
I compost right in my beds and containers, adding kitchen scraps to a small container with holes on the bottom. It attracts tons of worms. Sometimes, I just add to the top. Sometimes I just dump the container out when it is mostly broken down, along with the pile of earthworms. I also drop all cuttings and old leaves on top as a mulch, and sometimes cover with thin layer of soil to encourage the worms up. I have also dug holes and dropped kitchen scraps and leaves in, often right next to something growing. I try to stay a bit away from the rootball, but in containers, sometimes, I have to just dig the hole on the side of the container, next to growing plants. I also put plant material on the bottom half of pots I transplant into. The top half is soil for the seedling to expand into. The bottom is dead leaves, branches to hold in moisture and for the roots to grow into later. My zone is very hot and dry though, so moisture is essential.
Luke I have a question about my compost I made some compost over the summer I throw In some watermelon Rinds and leaves and grass clippings and some old broccoli plants what king of compost would that make thats already broken down
You needs some browns such as Fall leaves, paper, dried vegetative matter, and so forth.
I have 3 piles about 4 ft square and 3 ft high that was mixed las t fall. zone 5 it consists of manure and mulched dead leaves. its unfinished. should I pit it on seeds after sprout. and what about my transplanted tomatoes and peppers. plant in soil and top with unfinished compost ? thanks in advance
Question - if the soil was infected with a powdery mildew fungus how do I clean it up to replant there?
Question... i have a compost pile that is almost ready. It is a mound on the open ground so there are lots of earthworms! Should i remove the worms from the compost before adding to garden area’s?
Can you compost plants with powdery mildew if you let it fully compost?
Since it is still breaking down, doesn't it burn the stem or the roots since it will most likely create heat.!?.
I use a compostable, natural cat litter. What do you think about using that in the garden,? After composting it more than partially of course...
He literally addresses this in the video.
I use my bunny🐰 litter in mine. It has pine pellets for litter & hay as top dress🐾🐾
No solid kitty waste
Ewwww...
We have had issues with the semi finished compost using up nitrogen that the plants need to flourish.
This is my concern, too.
Luke! Do we have to remove infected leaves before composting whole plant?
Personally, I would get greater benefits from destroying any infected plants than to add them to my compost hoping against hope that the virus or bacteria affecting them will go away. What's really to gain by adding them?
What should I do? I've accidentally used a compost that apparently isn't finished and started my spring garden in it. My plants aren't growing at all and it's been multiple weeks. Should I dig them up and plant them deeper ?y seedlings are yellow and purple and the new growth is extremely slow. But I don't want to lose them
Someone told me the nitrogen is tied up in the soil. Maybe I can fertilize it with high nitrogen. I contacted the company I bought it from and they tried to say it is too Nutrient for small seedlings and argued that it is finished And that it's meant to dig in or side dress with or place on in the fall ( sounds a lot like semi finished or unfinished compost to me) But I'm not wanting to do a no dig approach and don't even own a tiller. If I buy a better quality compost and place it on top can I grow small seedlings and seeds in it?
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I throw my grass clippings on the garden beds so that as they break down they fertilize the garden beds while providing mulch.
Grass clippings usually have seeds and soon the garden bed turns into lawn. Better option is to add grass clippings to the compost pile where it is likely to heat up over 80 degree C that kills the seeds from germination.
@@desaih52 most people don't let their grass grow till it has seed heads. If your lawn looks like a field of wheat them dont use it, otherwise it should be fine
Stopped going to the gym a while ago. Turn three cubic yd piles at a time.
I have far too much to turn it so I have multiple piles which I pull from during the different stages of the breakdown depending on what state of decomposition I need at the moment.
On the other hand, I don't have space or time for a pile or more of compost to turn. I've invested in a dual chamber 65 gallon tumbler which should feed my container garden right proper.
I just found a couple newborn mice in my compost. I haven't been turning and watering enough. Now I'm doing it weekly. Also spraying peppermint oil to deter them. However I'm still unsure about using this compost in my food garden next year. Please help.
Can you use semi compost around established plants and veggies?
Did you have a link for a deal on heirloom seeds?
How do you keep Wild critters from digging things up
How is your new property coming alng
Not about compost. just wanting to know when you will have garlic for sale? Thank you
A post on Facebook said within the next couple of weeks.
Put lime on your compost and used mulch piles. it'll speed up breaking down the "stuff".
Lime will kill your BSF larvae if you have them, so I'm avoiding lime while they are active.
Does this apply to my compost tumblers? The stuff in them is pretty damp, smelly and has maggots. I keep adding browns but it is taking forever to turn into real compost.
Maybe too much anaerobic activity. Expose it to air and let it dry out so it can decompose aerobically.
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I am curious how much property you have. Do you have an overhead diagram? All these videos make me want to see how it all fits around your house.
Can you compost brown take out bags from fast food like wendys or Mcdonalds?
Dude!