Backyard Garden Compost Burned My Hand

My backyard garden compost got HOT after this! You can make the best compost for your garden using free or readily available resources.

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Yo, it’s Scott from New Garden Road. Have you ever flipped a compost pile? I’m back here in the uh the backstage of the garden. And this is compost pile that I’ve had going for a while and I don’t want to add to it anymore. But I do want to flip it. And I’m going to take everything that’s on the top and flip it over to another pile so it’ll be on the bottom. That’s going to provide some thorough irration of the material. And as I do that, I had this wild idea. I want to cut in some charcoal, make some biochar, inoculate that with my indigenous microorganisms growing in my compost already, as well as some bokashi pre-compost. If you don’t know, you should. This is really good stuff. Again, it’s going to up the ante on in terms of the biological diversity. And with that, I will be adding mushroom blocks. I have a ton of mushroom blocks. Yeah, thank you. Central Texas Micological Society High Five Mo. This is the new bin I made with three pallets and old fence gate that I had here. Some nails my daddy gave me. Spare pallet parts. You know it. This is the heart of the pile that I’ve been adding to for the last few months. Pretty broken down in there. Good amount of moisture. And this is the new pile. Oh yeah. about 3 or 4 feet tall right now. It’s been a lot of work. I’ve been wearing a mask, adding mushroom blocks. I added several bags of the bamboo charcoal air fresheners that we were done with. And I added a bit of bicashi, which unfortunately I spilled picashi on my pants. Not very nice uh to have on your pants. Just doesn’t smell good. Doesn’t smell like real bad, but doesn’t smell good. So, that’s the status report. We’re almost done. Home stretch. It’s been 2 weeks since I finished constructing this new pallet composter unit and flipped all my compost in there, cut in all those goodies, and it heated up just like I was going to expect. I opened it up last week, put my hand in there, it was visibly steaming, and really, really hot to the touch. That’s good. We want our our temperatures and our hot compost to get up into the 140 to 160 range. That’s going to kill off some of the weed seeds and also pathogens that might be in there. Now, I need this to cool down over the next couple of months before I use it in my vegetable garden. I’m really excited about this because I have been continually cultivating indigenous microbes in my backyard compost uh for this purpose to feed my soil, feed my plants. You can get in here with the the available resources in your neighborhood. Fallen leaves, mushroom blocks, plants from your garden that you’re done with seasonally. Grow your own food and keep it organic.