Hahahaha, I totally agree. I go with what I have available and let nature do what it was created to do. Sometimes it is ready in three months and other times it's been 6 months and it's still thinking about it.
My cold compost pile is typically much heavier in browns than greens, so my sweet hubby has agreed to pee on it periodically this year. I've heard "peecycling" speeds up the process and adds nitrogen. Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻
Yup. Loads of chicken manure and shavings in, some dry leaves, and a good watering-in. It doesn't look totally broken down yet, but it's only January. I will cover it to keep the rain off, though, so it doesn't get over-watered.
The point is for a lot of older gardeners…is just safely getting out there in low cloud covered, freezing, icy, windy, weather days, after days after days and wondering when the winter sunshine of earlier decades will be allowed to shine through!
Mine is chicken poo, kitchen scraps, grass clippings, and shredded paper. The leaves I use to mulch the beds for winter. And spent plants are chop and drop. Love your channel.
That's right. The original compost gurus telling us everything had to be exactly "this" completely put me off of making compost for years. Then, one year I dug down into a pile of yard detritis I left moldering over one winter. It was the most perfect compost. What was in it? everything, including food scraps.
I don't worry about it much, anymore, although i will layer some good cardboard or brown paper sacks if I have a lot of grass clippings in a day.
The main thing I've found to be important is, whenever you put a lot of greens on your pile, you should cover it with a good layer of browns to hold in the moisture and heat to really get it going. Otherwise, I've never cared about ratios.
The "balance" is necessary to get your compost hot enough to kill any weed seeds present. That is why people care about "balance". Yes, everything decomposes eventually, but the heat aspect needs fuel….
Everybody started talking about Dr. Ingham around the same time and I’m not gonna lie it made me not even interested in composting after I heard I have to buy a microscope. Boo that.
Indeed its important what u want.bacteria dominant or fungi dominant or balance of.itself depend on where u will use the compost?pereniel plants. Vegies or trees
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Hahahaha, I totally agree. I go with what I have available and let nature do what it was created to do. Sometimes it is ready in three months and other times it's been 6 months and it's still thinking about it.
Thank You Huw.
Happy New Year
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My cold compost pile is typically much heavier in browns than greens, so my sweet hubby has agreed to pee on it periodically this year. I've heard "peecycling" speeds up the process and adds nitrogen. Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻
Is that agstache the tall purple? Gotta have that. My rabbits give me great fertilizer to add to banana peels and paper and leaves…and urine 10:1
Thank you sometimes YouTubers discuss compost like it’s a science experiment 😊❤
Some of the dumbest shit that people worry about it's ridiculous
Yup. Loads of chicken manure and shavings in, some dry leaves, and a good watering-in. It doesn't look totally broken down yet, but it's only January. I will cover it to keep the rain off, though, so it doesn't get over-watered.
Yes my brother, break it down as simple Organic compost in nature. Simply and natural, give thanks. 😅
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The point is for a lot of older gardeners…is just safely getting out there in low cloud covered, freezing, icy, windy, weather days, after days after days and wondering when the winter sunshine of earlier decades will be allowed to shine through!
Mine is chicken poo, kitchen scraps, grass clippings, and shredded paper. The leaves I use to mulch the beds for winter. And spent plants are chop and drop. Love your channel.
That's right.
The original compost gurus telling us everything had to be exactly "this" completely put me off of making compost for years.
Then, one year I dug down into a pile of yard detritis I left moldering over one winter. It was the most perfect compost. What was in it? everything, including food scraps.
I don't worry about it much, anymore, although i will layer some good cardboard or brown paper sacks if I have a lot of grass clippings in a day.
The main thing I've found to be important is, whenever you put a lot of greens on your pile, you should cover it with a good layer of browns to hold in the moisture and heat to really get it going. Otherwise, I've never cared about ratios.
The "balance" is necessary to get your compost hot enough to kill any weed seeds present. That is why people care about "balance". Yes, everything decomposes eventually, but the heat aspect needs fuel….
Yes! Had to be said.
Everybody started talking about Dr. Ingham around the same time and I’m not gonna lie it made me not even interested in composting after I heard I have to buy a microscope. Boo that.
You're so reassuring. Thanks so much. ❤
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Indeed its important what u want.bacteria dominant or fungi dominant or balance of.itself depend on where u will use the compost?pereniel plants. Vegies or trees